The other day, I drove to Hamilton College, my alma mater, for an early-morning photo shoot. Although a rainstorm ruined my initial photo plan, I was able to get some indoor photos taken and, as far as I’m concerned, I got what I needed. On the way home, I absent-mindedly tried to turn on one…
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The Reunion
It’s Monday morning, and I’m riding a Trailways bus to a New York City reunion. It’s not a long journey, and since I’m not driving, I take pictures with my Nikon D700 out the window of the bus, experimenting with some quick shutter exposures – 1/8000 of sunlight and clouds. Great way to pass the…
Read MoreIt’s a good thing I didn’t do this with the Human League…
My friend Laura Pearle and I go way back in time. She and I attended Hamilton College together – she was Class of 1984, I was Class of 1985. She’s a great person, and we’ve remained in touch to this day. Yesterday, she sent me an e-mail with the headline “bad pun.” The e-mail was…
Read MoreR.E.M., Hamilton College, and me
I searched through every box in my apartment last night. I have to find it for the blog. Did the item get lost in the move? It’s got to be someplace… somewhere… I know I pitched a lot of 45’s out the door when I moved out – a lot of them went to Goodwill,…
Read MoreThe Sweater
College life can be full of distractions. These distractions appear from a variety of avenues – something going on at home, something going on in town, your favorite band is on its way to play a concert nearby, your have two pairs of undies left on Monday and no money for laundry until the end…
Read MoreThe Theft of the B’s
Daniel Berman, he of the Fussy Little Blog, tweeted recently about this weekend being UAlbany’s Freshman move-in day. Ah, I recall move-in days. The roads in front of every dorm were filled with station wagons and moving trucks at dear old Hamilton College. And just as quickly as the day started, students were “moved in”…
Read MoreAlbums I Want to Be Buried With: New Order, “Power Corruption and Lies” (US Pressing)
It’s the early 1980’s, and I’m a college radio disc jockey at Hamilton College’s student-run radio station WHCL. One of my classmates / fellow DJ’s brings a record into the radio station that looks like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s a 12-inch dance record called “Blue Monday,” an import record by the legendary band…
Read MoreThe day I almost blinded Aeon Cummings
My buddy DerryX recently crafted a blog post based on an apocryphal story involving a Central New York college student who, upon discovering that there was no remaining pepperoni pizza slices left at a late night pizza parlor, whined, “This is the worst day of my lieeeeeeeeeefe!” Now if that college student thought that could…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Rocking Central New York
On a previous episode of K-Chuck Radio, someone commented on whether I was a fan of radio station WOUR – because I went to school at Hamilton College in the mid-1980’s and that I referenced two artists that got tons of play on WOUR. Actually, I treated WOUR and WRCK (Rock 107) with equal amounts…
Read MoreYearbook sabotage
The recent story involving a Saratoga Springs High School yearbook, in which a girl’s picture was altered to show her with unflattering yellow teeth – and then the uproar afterward, with the picture being scissored out of copies of the yearbook, and then later the yearbook company agreeing to reprint the volume with the photo…
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