Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreI really hadn’t planned on attending the Capital District’s TulipFest this year. I mean, you photograph one batch of tulips, you’ve photographed them all. But on Sunday morning, May 12, I had an idea. What would those tulips look like if I shot them with my new-to-me Nikkor medical 120mm lens? This could be interesting.…
Read MoreThis is a complicated tale, so please follow along as much as you possibly can. About 20 years ago, I got involved in a personal-driven statistics project. I re-generated the statistics and records for the lost first twelve years of the Continental Basketball Association, back when that circuit was known as the Eastern Professional Basketball…
Read MoreIn case you’re wondering what the “B6 Playlist” is, it all originates with a comment last week in the House of Representatives, when the knuckle-dragging sloth from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, made some questionable comments about the appearance of one of her fellow congresswomen – namely, Rep. Jasmine Crockett. Greene referred to her with comments…
Read MoreI’m developing plenty of comfort with this infrared-modified Nikon Df camera, and when I need it to capture a sweet black-and-white infrared image, it works admirably. But I want this camera to also capture infrared color images. I want that brilliant mix of magenta and turquoise that comes with a perfectly-set pack of Aerochrome 120…
Read MoreYou’re not supposed to develop attachments to racehorses in the same way as one develops an attachment to a baseball player or to some other athlete. But over time, I’ve developed rooting interests in various horses at various times. And it’s always for the weirdest reasons. During one season at the Saratoga flat track, I…
Read MoreIt’s Capital Region day today – celebrate the holiday by doing something local and charitable. Hell, I remember blogging about this day TWELVE YEARS AGO, so that’s something in and of itself. But if you would rather read more recent blogs … and not ones written over a decade ago … I got cha covered…
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The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreOkay … it sounds like I just mashed up two Central New York regional delicacies. And yeah … I kinda did. Because I had a bottle of this stuff … And I had a jar of this stuff. So I did the whole “you got chocolate in my peanut butter, well you got peanut butter…
Read MoreRivers Casino in Schenectady is offering a special promotion in May – play on Tuesdays and earn enough points to receive one of four cast-iron cookware sets. The listings include a cast-iron skillet, a cast-iron grill pan, and two cast-iron oven pans. Okay. This sounds like it would work for me. But here’s the complication.…
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