I swear, it happened by accident.ย One night while I was at an event, I could have sworn I heard someone humming a melody from my memory.ย And instantly, I remembered the words. “Where, oh where, are you tonight?” The other person stopped humming.ย He looked at me.ย And he said the next lyric. “Why…
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You know when it’s time to leave.
I’ve known Al Stewart for a number of years.ย He’s a point guard who played his collegiate basketball at Drake, and for the past four years he’s been one of the top players in every league in which he has suited up. I first met Al when he was playing for the Manchester Millrats of…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Will love keep us together?
It’s a great pop song from the 1970’s, and it launched the career of one of the most popular pop duos of that era.ย That’s right, it’s The Captain and Tennille, with their breakthrough hit of 1975, “Love Will Keep Us Together.” Great song.ย Have a listen. But the song itself was originally written by…
Read MoreEveryone loves a clean car
In terms of appreciation for my ’06 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, I’ve been doing something with it that I haven’t done that often with my previous two cars, the ’91 Pontiac 6000 or the ’05 Saturn Ion. I’ve taken it to the car wash more often than I have with with the “6” or with Cardachrome.…
Read MorePick my next “Royale With Cheese” movie!
Here’s how this works.ย The “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” is based on my having not seen the film Pulp Fiction until a couple of years ago.ย Yep – I saw it after everyone else in the whole wide world had seen it. So after that film, I added a few more films to my…
Read More“Amish Mafia” Episode Review: Amish Exorcism
Amish Exorcism.ย Yeah.ย I swear by all that’s holy, if I hear one note from Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” during this episode, I’m going to throw a pitchfork through my flatscreen. But it’s time once again for everybody’s favorite trashy faux-reality “docu-fiction” show, the show that mixes the Sopranos with the bucolic, pastoral world of…
Read MoreDream Window #6: The Beacon
Belief is the hard part. Understanding is the easy part. And somewhere inbetween those points is faith.ย Faith in God, faith in the world, faith in nature and all of its beauty. And part of me felt that a Dream Window honoring faith and belief in a higher power would be perfect for an upcoming…
Read MoreGetting power to the tower
Last Tuesday, I finished up some work and then headed toward my 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS so that I could visit my girlfriend Nicole.ย As I got in my car, I noticed that the street lights and house lights in my neighborhood began to simultaneously flicker.ย Then they all went out.ย Five seconds later, the…
Read MoreTomahawks? Really?!? Tomahawks???
I do a lot of work with the National Basketball League of Canada, they have eight different teams in the league and the playoffs are just two weeks away. On Wednesday, the league announced that a ninth franchise, based in Ottawa, would join the NBL for the 2013-14 season.ย And as new teams will do,…
Read More“The Lenten Meal” – my latest splitfilm experiment
I had some success recently with a splitfilm project, in which I ran two rolls of 35mm film parallel in my Agfa Clipper Special f/6.3 camera.ย The images exposed all the way to the sprocket holes, and I was able to digitally assemble each one. Now comes the next step in the project.ย I want…
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