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By the time you get out of bed  Thursday morning for Thanksgiving, I’ll be at the Empire State Plaza, once again standing in line to be a deliveryperson at the annual Equinox Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner.  Once again, I’m ready to deliver Thanksgiving turkey dinners to those in need.  While others in the blog community…

Feeling festive this holiday season?  Feeling like you want to embrace your Capital District heritage when you decorate your tree? Hope you still have your Capital District commemorative ornaments to do so. Various communities throughout America have partnered with their local branch of Easter Seals to create beautiful annual ornaments of iconic buildings and memories…

Ah, the mysteries of those nefarious comic book advertisements.  Send away and you can receive the Charles Atlas “Dynamic Tension” muscle-building guide.  You can receive 100 toy soldiers in a small foot locker.  You can receive magic hypnosis discs, sneezing and itching powder, and – best of all – X-Ray Specs. No, no – not…

What a great way for couples to meet, for people to get together, for everybody to exercise and dance and have a fantastic time. And it’s starting this Friday night in downtown Troy. I’m talking about the Swing Syndicate. The Swing Syndicate is a new dance studio at 212 River Street, where studio founders Orian…

It’s the kind of erotic fantasy that can really drive a person wild.  As an airplane flies toward its destination, a couple of passengers look at each other… knowingly wink and smile… then, one by one, they make their way to the airplane’s lavatory.  In they go.  The door gets locked.  A few minutes later,…

Last week I arranged a dinner meet-up with Michele Poole, so that I could give her a CD with the photographs I took of her as she completed her 20th consecutive run at the Freihofer’s Run for Women.  We agreed to meet at my favorite Troy restaurant, Brown’s Brewing, on Wednesday night. That evening, as…

And I don’t care if the former leader of Germany doesn’t like it. So I hope everyone else understands that after what I’ve gone through this week, I just need a day. I’ll be back tomorrow. I promise.

So there’s supposedly some big wedding going on in England in a couple of weeks. I think it involves some guy with a lot of “old money” – I think his last name is either Windsor or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha or some derivative of same. And he’s marrying some girl whose parents set up their…

You see this all the time at sporting events. At a break in the action, the camera will invariably pan to the crowd and find some happy couples sitting together, and then guess what – it’s “Kiss Cam” time!! That’s right, you and your significant other get to pucker up in front of everybody in…

This is bad.  Very very bad. If the rumors I received are to be believed, the University at Albany will be holding a press conference today at 2:30 p.m. regarding more fallout from the Kegs and Eggs riot a couple of weeks ago, as well as the negative publicity regarding the recent Fountain Day protest…