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. Tonight’s episode features a lot of great songs, with a “sample example” of how Everclear took a 1970’s Jean Knight hit and…
Read MoreDuring my 2022 college reunion, I took several photos around campus, including snagging this shot of the statue of Alexander Hamilton, for whom the college was named. Backstory. The college itself was formed in 1793 as the Hamilton Oneida Academy, a school that Presbyterian seminarian Samuel Kirkland hoped would educate the local indigenous peoples. The…
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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. Tonight’s episode features a lot of great songs, including a track that influenced a #1 song – which later influenced a song…
Read MoreI’ve photographed fireworks displays in the past. Big booming fireworks events that can be seen in the next county; small fireworks shows in private lots, and almost everything in between. Last June, during my Hamilton College reunion, I discovered that the College would produce a fireworks show on Saturday night. Of course, now I’m looking…
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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. Tonight’s episode features songs that were based on historic events. Some are story-songs, others pull full inspiration from the moments in time.…
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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. Tonight’s episode is really cool. It’s a collection of well-known artists who, for one reason or another, recorded under fake names and…
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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. Tonight’s episode features my new microphone. So if you notice a positive difference, let me know. If you notice a negative difference,…
Read MoreI’m sorry, but if I’m going to go to a college reunion, I’m bringing the cameras. And if I’m bringing the cameras, I’m bringing the film. And since the price of fresh film is rising every day (I’d blame Joe Biden, but last I heard he wasn’t the President of Kodak), I’m checking my stash…
Read MoreI was not expecting to see Professor O’Neill at my recent Hamilton College reunion. But apparently, in his 90’s, he still made an appearance. Flashback. In 2020, I blogged about how, in my first-ever essay, as a Hamilton College pre-freshman, Professor O’Neill caught me using an incongruous grammatical error. The statement was, in effect, “Usually…
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I was recording the DJ part of my Friday night “Nightowl Radio Show” radio broadcast, when all of a sudden … the microphone shorted out. Ugh. I ordered a new microphone and headset combo, but the unit I received had a very tinny microphone. Essentially, I had to record my audio…
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