Last night I attended the third annual Relay for Life trivia event, held at the North Albany American Legion post. Fun little event, and for a change of pace I was joined, for one night only, by Simeon Morrell, the captain of the trivia team Stern Fans (Trivia Bowl champions, 2008). That’s right, Street Academy…
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Rest in peace, Jay Gallagher
To the family of Jay Gallagher – There aren’t words that I can come up with this morning – nothing I can write or create – that can even begin to reach the level of bravery and dignity Jay Gallagher exercised in his battle against cancer. He will be missed. His life will be appreciated.…
Read MoreA prayer for a fellow TU blogger
Jay Gallagher is in the fight of his life. He’s just completed a surgical process to try to stop a cancerous tumor from claiming victory. Jay last updated his blog post on May 18, where he discussed his need to go back to the hospital as a result of vomiting up blood. Jay Gallagher is…
Read MoreArt Auction for Tess’ Lark Tavern
A community comes together. There’s no question about that. And whatever it takes to rebuild and restore Lark Tavern, then that’s what a community does. That’s why I’m donating some of my printed and framed photographic artworks to Samson Contompasis’ upcoming art auction for Tess’ Lark Tavern. I stopped over to the gallery at The…
Read MoreThe Importance of Being an Earnest TU Blogger
Kevin Marshall is one of the Times Union lifestyle bloggers for this page. In the short time he’s been with the TU blogiverse, he’s snapped off some great observations about everything from dating in the 21st century to the idiocy of the People of Wal-Mart website. He’s also driven people nuts with an April Fool’s…
Read MoreYou can now play TRON’s “Space Paranoids” online!
Yes, I am seriously pumped to see TRON Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic film TRON. And thanks to websites like flynnlives.com and some other movie tie-in websites, there’s plenty of buzz building for this film. But I wasn’t expecting anything like this. In the original 1982 TRON film, the initial plotline revolves…
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. Whether you’re angry or happy, scared or soulful, take your camera out and photograph something. Anything. For me, I needed some peaceful…
Read MoreA Golden Arm, a Head of Steel and Feet of Clay
This is a very important blog post for me. It needs to be written, if for no other reason than I need closure. 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…
Read MoreThe Cheeziest Pop Songs of the 1970’s
Fellow TU poster J. Eric Smith has a blog post about songs you should really hear. In the blog post, he mentioned a Bee Gees song, and someone responded about how they enjoyed the Bee Gees song “(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts.” At which point J. Eric mentioned that it seemed incongruous that the…
Read MorePhantogram’s “Mouthful of Diamonds” or Blotto’s “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard”?
It used to be so easy. While every other major metropolitan city and town had a rock band or a pop singer that they could call their own – even cities like Akron, Ohio (Devo, the Pretenders) or Springfield, Massachusetts (Staind), Albany had – well, we had Blotto. And Blotto was good. Very good. Blotto…
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