Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Normally at this point in time, I’d complain about running out of some esoteric color and having to work around it while another color shipment from Herrschner’s came through the mail. Well, this time the problem wasn’t my yarn. It was my hook. More specifically, the hook itself broke in two. The metal rod pulled…
Read MoreSo for the past few days, there have been statements by Republican House representative Madison Cawthorn (Q-NC) that refer to him being invited to various political events in which drugs and sex were involved. That was before last night … when a videotape of one of the orgies popped up on an online adult video…
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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…
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