“That’s not Grape-Nuts, it’s cat vomit!!”

Ah, those wacky morning news reports. Scot Haney has been one of Connecticut’s most popular television media personalities.ย  He’s worked as a meteorologist and reporter for television station WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut for the past fifteen years, and has won several awards and accolades during his time with the station. Haney also owns three cats…

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BK Racing allows Travis Kvapil to drive Saturday? Why??

This should have been a checkered-flag decision.ย  Instead, it crashed into the wall. As I noted in my last blog post, NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil was arrested on charges of spousal abuse.ย  He spent the night in jail and posted bond the next day. This afternoon, BK Racing – the group that owns the #93…

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Travis Kvapil is an idiot

I can understand if you’ve never heard of Travis Kvapil.ย  That’s fine.ย  He’s a low-level driver in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series, he drives the Burger King #93 Toyota for a low-level race team, and about the only time you ever hear his name on the race track is when he crashes into the wall, blows…

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Photographing the Whitehurst Printing and Binding Co. ghost sign

Whitehurst Printing and Binding Co., a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. Last Sunday, I spent the afternoon in Troy photographing as many ghost signs as I could. Apparently there’s several of them along the waterfront, and I never previously noticed them. Caught this one with my Agfa Chief camera and GAF Aerographic film. I’m still…

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Remembering The Children’s Digest…

A couple of years ago, I went to Crossgates Mall and saw The Adventures of Tintin.ย  I look at it as my Christmas present from me to me.ย  Great, great film, and the action scenes in it were breathtaking – including, about two-thirds of the way through the film, a 7-minute action scene without a…

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Time Warner Cable’s new lineup o’ torture

They’ve sent mesages to me in my mailbox.ย  They’ve robo-called me.ย  And all the time, I thought they were just kidding, that they were just threatening, that this was an April Fool’s Day joke that was a victim of poor scheduling. Then I woke up this morning, and turned on the television.ย  Hmm.ย  Maybe I’ll…

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Motivations Volume 3

Three years ago, in October 2010, I published my first true art book. Motivations, Volume 1. Here’s a preview of it.ย  You can also order a copy directly through the link below on blurb.com. http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf Motivations, Volume 1 by Photographs by Chuck Miller | Make Your Own Book Two years later, in October 2012, I…

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The collections

We all have collections.ย  Sometimes they’re displayed on a shelf, proudly dusted and angled and shown off to visiting guests.ย  Sometimes they’re stored in safe deposit boxes, carefully curated and covered in that their eventual resale could figuratively break the bank that holds them.ย  Sometimes they’re stored in loose-leaf binders and notebooks. In my life,…

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Entries for the Sheep and Wool Festival are…

And with a Priority Mail USPS package I placed in the mail yesterday, I have reached the final photo competition of the 2013 “competition season.” While the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck is more dedicated to Sheep and Wool products, there’s always a wistfulness for me when I enter this competition.ย …

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