I wasn’t planning on flying on October 27th.ย I was planning on going home, scanning in some Kodachrome slides that arrived from Dwayne’s Photo, and maybe watching a bit of the World Series. My travel plans were originally set for the next day, October 28th – a trip to Chicago for the Premier Basketball League,…
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Week 8 of the $2,500 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
All right, this is going to be a big win for my Street Academy trivia team.ย Everybody’s at the Elbo Room, ready for the first question to begin.ย Jeremy’s there.ย Alexis is there.ย And I am… In Chicago. Yep.ย I’m sitting at O’Hare Airport, just a few miles away from the corner of Delaware, Morton…
Read MoreStorytown – er, the Great Escape – in Kodachrome
Last year, I wrote a well-received blog post about old photographs from the legendary Lake George amusement park, Storytown U.S.A.ย Today that park is the Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom, and is part of the Six Flags collection of amusement parks. The reason I wrote the article was because I acquired a vintage View-Master reel…
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Read More“You know how to use the Heritage Park PA microphone?”
So I’m cleaning up some old storage boxes in my home office, when I came across another long-forgotten part of my life. It was some old statistician papers from the 1997 Empire State Games. It’s the summer of 1997.ย When the Empire State Games came to the Capital Region that summer, I wanted to volunteer…
Read MoreAutumn Foliage in the Pine Hollow Arboretum
Last month, I took my Nikon D700 to Slingerlands, to visit the breathtaking Pine Hollow Arboretum. This expansive nature preserve, 25 acres of trees and flowers and streams, is tucked between two side streets off New Scotland Road.ย You can’t even hear the cars drive by as you’re walking along the peaceful nature trail. And…
Read MoreCould an Islamic sitcom be a hit in America?
Throughout the history of television, there have been several TV shows in which the original concept of the show – a comedy about being a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, for example – might seem, on the top, a bit uncomfortable. So how is it that one of Canada’s most popular homegrown television shows…
Read MoreI never saw her softer side
I realize that sometimes, in this blog, I reveal many personal things about not only my photography and my writing, but also about my life. This is one of them. I remember where I met her. It was 1992, and I was at Sears in Colonie Center.ย We started talking, and everything seemed fine.ย No…
Read MoreWhen “To Kill a Mockingbird” played in Albany
As I look forward to participating in “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill a Saturday,” the public reading / fundraiser of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” on November 6, 2010, I think back to when the 1962 Academy Award-winning film of the same name played in Albany. And so, on a chilly Saturday morning, I had…
Read MoreAnother TRON “Arcade Aid” challenge!
Back in the spring, there was a viral online video game trivia challenge for the upcoming movie TRON: Legacy.ย By visiting a certain website, you had to find all 56 hidden video game titles in a gigantic poster.ย If you found all 56, you would receive a special prize – in my case, I received…
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