As we get into the homestretch of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament, my Street Academy team – Jeremy, Alexis and I – may not have as many qualifying points as the rest of the other seven teams in the tournament, but we are getting closer to the top with every game. We were in…
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The Way of the Intercepting Fist
About ten years ago, I was freelancing for a Capital District monthly sports newspaper called CD Sports.ย It was an okay publication, they were one of the free newspapers that populated the region, along with Metroland and the Source. At the time, I had received word that a martial arts team from Albany had won…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 13 – The Contract
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreTrivia Recap – Almost Perfect at Brown’s
To my knowledge, it’s only happened once in Albany’s team trivia history.ย Only once has a team answered every question right, without using any of their skips or “double-chance” option plays.ย That was many years ago, when Stern Fans “went perfect” at the Arc sports bar in Watervliet. In the five years I’ve played competitive…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 12 – Release
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Tomhannock Reservoir
One of the great things about photography is that in composing a scene, whether the image appears from careful planning or from chance, you can create the emotion you feel at that moment.ย Whether you’re angry or happy, scared or soulful, take your camera out and photograph something.ย Anything. For me, I needed some peaceful…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Tulips in Washington Park
What a beautiful Saturday.ย I grabbed my camera equipment and went out to photograph tulips in Washington Park.ย And apparently, so did a lot of other people.ย The blooming tulips in Washington Park drew as many shutterbugs as the bordering hyacinths drew bumblebees. I shot at least two rolls of Kodachrome film that morning, and…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 11 – Discovery
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreWeek 10 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
If you’re playing in a regular trivia tournament, in which the top prize is a bar gift certificate or whatever promotional tchotchkes were left over from the prize vault, missing a bonus question or a high value point question isn’t the end of the world. But if you’re playing for an eventual $1,500 prize, you…
Read MoreA Golden Arm, a Head of Steel and Feet of Clay
This is a very important blog post for me.ย It needs to be written, if for no other reason than I need closure.ย Especially when I read Kristi Gustafson’s post this morning, where when she was asked about whether she should write a blog post about Big Ben and she thought it meant the clock…
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