It’s Sunday morning, and I’m trying to keep my mind focused. Took the cameras out for some early morning shooting. Went grocery shopping. Bought some N-gauge train tracks. I’ll explain the N-gauge train tracks in another blog post. Now it’s time to head over to Recovery Sports Bar and Grille in Troy, site of this…
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Recursion of the Chance
The minute I received my seventh “postcard o’ doom” from The Chance, telling me I wasn’t worthy of participation, I immediately taped it on the wall with the other six rejections, then went to set up another appointment. Another trip to New York City. Another recursion back to try again, to re-audition, to re-apply, to…
Read MoreSummer Bowl III is coming
It’s the midyear championships of professional team trivia in the Capital District. On Sunday, July 15, the weekend before the Saratoga flat track opens for its summer season, the top trivia teams tackle tough topics and try to trounce their competition in the Summer Bowl. This year’s event, which will be held at Troy’s Recovery…
Read MoreResumption of the Chance
And it begins anew. My annual pas de deux with an unrequited dream, a symbiotic synthesis of singular surge. The Chance. How long have I tried to capture the attention of The Chance? Longer than I care to remember. So long, in fact, that I still dare not mention its name, only to reference it…
Read MoreRelay for Life Trivia 2012 Results
Last night, Martel’s at the Capital Hills Golf Course hosted the 2012 Relay for Life trivia competition. It was a standard “Trivia Nights Live” matchup, with proceeds from the event going to charity. It was a good game all around, some of the questions were really competitive – one of the 10-pointers was “In what…
Read More“Barn Versus Weeds” and “Night Train to Heaven” and Relay for Life and #AfricatoCanada
Just an update on things. My framed 8×10 picture of “Barn Versus Weeds,” the 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem, has been delivered to the people involved with this Wednesday’s “Relay for Life” trivia competition. And from what I understand, there’s a lot of people who want to…
Read More“Barn Versus Weeds” and Relay for Life Trivia
Hey guess what… See this picture? This is my picture “Barn Versus Weeds,” a 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem. This picture won an award at one of the photo competitions last year. And now, a framed copy of this picture can be yours. All you have to…
Read MoreMay 30: This year’s Relay for Life Trivia Game!
As much as I enjoy playing competitive team trivia, I really really REALLY enjoy it when playing trivia helps raise money for a worthy cause. And this year, that means participating in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Trivia game. Get your friends and co-workers together, as the top trivia minds in the Capital…
Read MoreTest Your Skills with the G.E. College Bowl!
Man, I wish a show like this was on the air today. Imagine if you took the top students from Duke and had them face off against the University of North Carolina. No, we’re not talking about a basketball game. Or maybe a matchup between Auburn and Alabama. And no, I’m not talking about football.…
Read MoreYou know what I need? I need more hellos.
“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together forever? Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. You know what I need? I need more hellos.” – Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home Was it only…
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