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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 MoreWay back in 2023, I blogged about the fourth and final season of the dystopian drama Snowpiercer, which would have wrapped up the post-apocalyptic fantasy series. Then TNT, the network that aired the first three seasons of Snowpiercer, culled the show from its lineup and refused to air the fourth season – even though the…
Read MoreThis is going to be fun. In 1962, Nikon manufactured a series of “medical” lenses for 35mm cameras. These lenses were attached to SLR cameras, and technicians could take photos of surgeries without the cameraperson getting in the way of the surgeon. The lens could take pictures in sizes from 1:11 to 1:1 (life-size) –…
Read MoreIn 1941, Fleischer Studios – the animation studio who brought Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor to movie screens – released the first animated episodes of the Adventures of Superman. The series, which ran for two year and seventeen episodes, were visually brilliant, with major flourishes of art deco and noir stylings, plenty of two-fisted…
Read MoreI’ve owned my 2017 Chevrolet Volt Premier (“Lightning’s Girl”) for two years, and it is arguably the best car ever to come into my possession. And thanks to the car’s VOLTEC warranty, I’m covered for 8 years or 100,000 miles from the car’s date of manufacture. So I’ve got 15,000 miles OR one more year…
Read MorePay Me To Knight, the harness horse known around the stables as “Junior,” has won two races at Saratoga Harness so far this racing season. He’s also had a close second, a fourth, and a couple of races where he didn’t do as well as usual. This time, he’s back in the sixth race –…
Read MoreSo this just popped up in my email account. Apparently James P. Friedman requested $99 from my Venmo account. Here’s the screenshot. Apparently a few minutes later, someone named Eric Patterson also requested $99 from my Venmo account. Here’s that screenshot. And not a few minutes after THAT … came a $99 request from my…
Read MoreTomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, where everybody drinks green beer and wears novelty T-shirts with phrases like, “I’m Irish, take me drunk, I’m home,” and “My Irish Lass is Erin Go Braghless.” Oh, that one’s a broad-minded concept. Well, that’s for tomorrow. Today, it’s Steve Austin Day. You know … the holiday that comemorates when…
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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 MoreBackground. My involvement with radio station WHCL-FM at Hamilton College was arguably my happiest moments on campus. During my undergraduate years, I had a reasonably popular radio show that played a mixture of modern “new music” and whatever else I could rustle out of the record libraries. I named the program the “Nightowl Radio Show,” as a…
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