My Thanksgiving drive for Equinox, 2020 (part 2)

Yep, I scheduled myself to drive a second day for Equinox. Just because I can, and it’s the holiday season. First off, I had to fill the gas tank. It wasn’t empty, mind you, but I do like to have my car with a full tank on turkey delivery day. As I filled my Chevrolet…

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My Thanksgiving Drive for Equinox, 2020 Edition (Pt. 1)

COVID-19 has changed and cancelled so much of my enjoyment this year, that I was worried I would lose the opportunity to drive turkey dinners to various locations as part of the Equinox Thanksgiving Day turkey delivery charity event. Normally, I drive to a specific location in downtown Albany, I wait until my car is…

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So now I shall make drive-in speakers for my home computer

I’ve been having lots of fun with this drive-in speaker restoration concept, where I take old vintage aluminum drive-in speakers, restore the interior guts, repaint the exterior chassis, and either put them up for auction or use them in my personal life. Such begins my next project. Someone in Australia had a matched set of…

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Empire State Plaza fireworks, 2020 Edition

So I’m submitting this awesome 2020 fireworks photo from the Empire State Plaza’s 4th of July celebration. And you’re looking at me as if I grew a second head.ย  “Chuck Miller, don’t bullshit your readers,” you say to me.ย  “Everybody knows that the Empire State Plaza 4th of July festivities were cancelled this year, due…

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Would you like some tomateos with your luttuce?

It’s morning in America, and I’m pissed off at my local Speedway gas station. Last Monday morning, I pumped some gas – no problem there – and then went inside to purchase some items; a couple of cans of Red Bull, some chips, and a slice of their breakfast pizza – which, by the way,…

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The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train won’t run in 2020…

Just when I thought that COVID-19 couldn’t mess enough with my world… Now it’s severely altered one of my favorite Christmastime traditions. For the past three years, I’ve photographed the brilliantly illuminated Canadian Pacific Holiday Train as it cruises through New York.ย  Last year, I participated in my first-ever “train chase,” where I photographed the…

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Tony Goldmark dog-walks Fox News, film at 11.

I first met Tony Goldmark at, at all places, a “Weird Al” Yankovic fan convention in 2000.ย  Yes, there are such things. Yes, I went to more than one of them. Tony at that time was a very talented song parodist, and could compose some nerdcore with the best of them. Tony has a few…

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A Capital District-themed drive-in speaker: The Mohawk Drive-In in Bluetooth

Some time ago, I chronicled, step by step, how I took an old, beat-up drive-in speaker and turned it into a beautiful, Bluetooth-enabled speaker.ย  Yeah, I can do things like that. So I tried again.ย  Only this time, I had a specific purpose in mind. Walk with me. This is a vintage Simplex speaker.ย  In…

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