Saturday morning.ย My Pontiac 6000 was still seizing up at stop lights, a condition that had gone from a slight shudder to near-stalling.ย Sometimes it would lurch forward and continue to drive on; sometimes it would conk out completely.ย I could get it re-started, but I couldn’t swing it any more. I knew what it…
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The Robins of Iverhill
I was cleaning up my home office last night when I found it. Nearly 200 pages of my college senior thesis, tucked neatly into a manila envelope. It was a copy of my college senior thesis. I mentioned this in a previous blog post, and that at some point in time I would sit down,…
Read MoreBobblehead-free-zone
I am currently echoing J. Eric Smith’s sentiment about this bobblehead beg-a-thon that’s permeated the Capital Region media.ย Okay, this was fun for about the first couple of weeks. But now it’s gotten stale. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen what appears to be every media representative talking about how they want to…
Read MoreWeek 6 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
I wasn’t completely concentrating on the tournament this week.ย Granted, that’s not an excuse, but in the interest of fair disclosure, I had something very close to me almost die. It was my car. While pulled up to a stop light Thursday morning, my 1991 Pontiac 6000 sounded like everything was fine.ย But then, as…
Read MoreRest in Peace, Johnny Maestro
I was monitoring my flickr page today, and saw that there was an unusually high amount of hits for people looking for one of my photographs.ย It was a photo of Johnny Maestro, the lead singer of the doo-wop groups The Crests and The Brooklyn Bridge, that I took in 2008 at the Vocal Group…
Read MoreKodachrome photos from my Daylight Saving Time ride home
As mentioned in a previous post, on March 14th I was driving back from Buffalo and, in an effort to break up my driving schedule, I loaded a cartridge of Kodachrome 64 film into my Kiev-19 and took some pictures along the way. One of the photos was a shot of something drivers see all…
Read MoreAn old New England puzzle
Here’s a puzzler to twist your brain a smidge. Apparently this word puzzle used to hang in a New Hampshire lodge near a fireplace. And the words form a very important series of instructions. Here’s the puzzle. If the BMT put more : If the B . putting : Never put more : over a…
Read MoreExtreme Makeover: Kiev 19 Camera
So now that I’ve finally gotten this Kiev-19 to take some decent pictures, I need to make it look less like a generic Ukrainian-built 35mm camera and more like something that would really stand out in a camera crowd. Again, this is my Kiev-19, or as I refer to it, my “Commie camera.”ย If you’re…
Read MoreAlbums I Want to Be Buried With: Cris Williamson, The Changer and the Changed
Really?ย Cris Williamson? Feel free to dump a ton-load of quizzical looks my way.ย It’s all right.ย I understand. But Chuck… isn’t this an album for… and aren’t you… And I respond… What’s the big deal? There’s so much about this album that could get lost in the perspective of “well, this album is targeted…
Read MoreLive by the snipe, die by the snipe
In order to find Kodachrome 35mm film for my latest photography art project (photographing as much as possible before the December 31, 2010 deadline for processing), I have searched out eBay’s sellers for any available Kodachrome film. There are some caveats, though… because Kodachrome has an expiration date, I have to trust that the seller…
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