Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I made a lot of progress this week. And I’m kinda proud of that. Let me explain. If you look at the grid for the latch hook rug project, it shows 26 columns and 17 rows. And I finished the bottom two rows this week, along with working my way up the left side. To…
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Damn it, I ran out of bronze. And I’m also running short on green. And why this corner of my artwork requires light lavender, and all I have are strands of dark lavender and regular lavender … ugh. Such is the adventures of working on this big latch hook rug project. The left side of…
Read MoreAnd… I wish I could challenge my brains Going for broke, trusting achieving erudite wordplays for Pi Day The physical test, trying to follow step was the lipogram for my skilled languaged blogs previously. If anything, blogging with a framework against a strict structure can challenge everybody. You, brother, daddy, a basketball guard throwing up,…
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Okay. I’m now on a race against the clock. A few weeks ago, I started work on a very intricate latch hook rug, with the image based on a 1960’s NEBA Roast Beef / Mike’s Giant Submarines sandwich building that was possibly located at the intersection of Central and Colvin Avenues in Albany. The goal…
Read MoreMy original plan was to put this latch hook project off for a year or so. But when a different latch hook project got completely FUBAR’d, I had to take this one on immediately. And now I’m on a deadline. Let me explain. A generation of Capital District fast food aficionados will swear by the…
Read MoreI said I wouldn’t do another latch hook project. I swore I would not touch another latch hook project. And then … against my better judgment … I placed an order for latch hook yarn, canvas and hooks to Herschnerr’s online. It is official. Chuck has lost his mind again. Explanation. I’ve been debating whether…
Read MoreA fair word of warning. This blog post might be a bit, shall we say, juvenile. And I’m actually going to suggest you treat this as potentially NSFW. You have been warned. After this, it’s all on you. So, supposedly there’s a Twitter link floating around that purports to, if I’m viewing it correctly, points…
Read MoreI’ve written about McDonald’s secret “hacks” menu before. Depending on whether you can get a McDonald’s who has the time to make a special sandwich out of the available ingredients in a “mix and match” method, you can get unique meals that would probably make Ray Kroc wince. Well, recently McDonald’s offered a promotion where…
Read MoreWith news last night that the daily word game Wordle has been purchased by the New York Times – and with that, eventually Wordle will end up behind the NYT’s pay wall, because of course it will – one might wonder where to find a similar daily word game like this online. I’m going to…
Read MoreIt’s official. I’ve gotten hooked on the online word game Wordle. Each day, a new five-letter puzzle shows up, and I have to guess the word in six tries. Getting the word right allows me to brag about my accomplishments on social media. And I’ve done pretty well for myself in that. Well, not bragging…
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