After 26 years, I think the statute of limitations has finally run out.ย So now it can be told. I made a pirate radio broadcast when I was in college. It’s December of 1984.ย It was my senior year at Hamilton College, and I did not want to go home for the holidays.ย I had…
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And at the last minute… I’m thinking Vermont State Fair photo contest…
I have to be out of my ever-loving photo-snapping mind. Here’s the deal.ย My original plan this year was to only enter the photographic fairs that were nearby; that meant the St. Agnes Cemetery photo contest, the Altamont Fair and the New York State Fair, with the possibility of the Massachusetts “Big E” fair.ย But…
Read MoreThe Record Collection That Got Too Big
It’s tough being a record album collector. Eventually the 20 LP’s you have become 200 LP’s, and you can’t part with any of them. Eventually those 200 LP’s blossom – or multiply – into thousands of pressings. Your wooden shelves strain from the weight of all that vinyl. You start purchasing Discwashers and polypropylene sleeves…
Read MoreSo I went to this blogger-reader mixer last night…
and had a wonderful time.ย Most times, the interaction between bloggers and readers is limited to a nickname commenting on the text written from someone with a photo headshot (or in my case, a photo with a camera in it). So it’s great to meet my fellow bloggers and blog readers at Times Union mixers…
Read MoreRemembering “Trivia Rich” Mahady
I first met Trivia Rich Mahady in, of all places, Boston.ย It was 1993, and I was visiting my grandmother in West Roxbury – and to get there, I had to take a Greyhound from Albany to Boston, and then transfer to the T to get to Cleveland Circle, and then ride a city bus…
Read MoreA Farewell Party for Harriet Gibbons High School / Street Academy of Albany
Forty years ago, on September 21, 1970, the Albany Times Union reported the beginning of a new alternative high school in the district, a partnership between the nuns of the Kenwood Academy of the Sacred Heart and the staff of the Albany chapter of the National Urban League.ย That school became the Street Academy of…
Read More“The Gong Show” – The Greatest TV Game Show of All Time!
You think Simon Cowell was harsh? You think Gordon Ramsay is cruel? Try going on stage and performing the latest pop song – only to watch as one of the judges grabs a big body-length mallet, and swings it at a huge Chinese gong – and with that, you’re off the show.ย Thanks for playing,…
Read MoreAnd your host for Answers Please, Ed Dague!
Let’s put it this way.ย Ed Dague is one of the most dedicated, principled reporters the Capital District has ever had.ย For years as Ernie Tetreault’s assistant anchor on WRGB’s 6pm newscast in the 1970’s, to his long tenure as the lead anchor on WNYT, Dague has been a strong and reliable institution when it…
Read MoreVisiting the 2010 New York State Fair (and seeing how my Nipper and Coca-Cola photos did)
Saturday morning.ย 3:30am.ย I think the only people up this early are graveyard shifters and those who still haven’t gotten home from Last Call. But this is a big day for me.ย And I need to get up.ย Revilee, Revilee, hit the deck, rise and shine… Nikon D700 fully charged, an 8-gig CompactFlash chip stuffed…
Read More“Gremlins” at the Uptown Theater in Utica
So the last time I passed through the Mohawk Valley, I had my Nikkormat FTn in the car.ย Of course it was loaded with a roll of Kodachrome, and of course I had to take some photos of things that I remembered from the time I spent at Hamilton College and the surrounding villages and…
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