The other day, I stopped by my local Price Chopper to purchase some quick morning food – a navel orange and a diet cola. Yep. Breakfast of Champions. Actually, that Price Chopper had started a new sale for navel oranges – normally you can get five navel oranges for $5; but that morning apparently all…
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Was 77 tickets enough?
Nine weeks ago, I entered a trivia tournament at Graney’s Stout. The grand prize offered at the end of the tournament were four tickets to a Jets-Dolphins game at the former Joe Robbie Stadium, along with two nights’ hotel accommodations. Every time a team won that week’s trivia competition, they would receive some raffle tickets.…
Read MoreThe Slit-Scan Project: A Photo Finish
I saw this blog post by photographer James Guerin and was absolutely enraptured with what he achieved. He modified an old 35mm Pentax camera into a “slit-scan” camera and achieved some amazing images, many of which are featured in his blog. You’ve seen “slit-scan” pictures before – horse racing fans will recognize the slit-scan images…
Read MoreHalfway between crimson and scarlet
I woke up this morning. My face still hurts, more pain than yesterday. My neck aches. My arms feel like they’re coated in fresh asphalt. Gotta check the bathroom mirror. Yep. Any redder, and I’d be the punchline for a Jeff Foxworthy routine. No way around it – Chuck got sunburned. Badly. Worse than I…
Read MoreKickstarter for a stopmotion Jonny Quest episode
Last year, I blogged about Roger D. Evans’ efforts to re-create the Jonny Quest opening theme in stop-motion animation. What he did was pretty freakin’ impressive. Here’s what a classic Jonny Quest episode looks like. And here’s what Roger D. Evans did – he built his own Jonny Quest action figures and re-created the opening…
Read More“Shipping Wars” on A&E – my new published article
How’s this for a nice big plate of cool beans? Last month, I pitched an article to one of my writing clients, the travel magazine RoadKing. The idea was to cover the A&E television series Shipping Wars, a reality TV show that profiles independent transporters and haulers who will deliver items that the major carriers…
Read More“Dot and the Kangaroo” – now I really feel old…
Back in the mid-1970’s, I remember seeing this animated children’s film, Dot and the Kangaroo, on HBO. Okay, let me rephrase that. I remember seeing this film almost every week, because I think it was one of the only G-rated films HBO was showing at the time. Background. In 1898, Australian author Ethel Pedley wrote…
Read MoreA penny saved is… worthless?
Last Tuesday, before I crossed the border from Canada back to the United States, I stopped at the duty-free store. Usually my trip to the duty-free store involves picking up some candy for my trivia teammates, maybe a T-shirt for a friend or two, and a quick bathroom break. Oh yeah, and changing my money…
Read MoreForgotten Warner Bros. cartoon characters
Everybody loves Warner Bros. cartoons. Bugs Bunny. Porky Pig. Daffy Duck. The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. We know them, we love them. But for every cartoon character Warner Bros. brought us, there were more than a few that just never worked out. These are the characters that never connected with the audience, the…
Read MoreAn Offer Against the Chance
Last May, I was in the middle of planning a Times Union Community Bloggers’ golf tournament, when I received a Twitter message that offered me a very interesting and intriguing choice. The message was from a casting director, who was looking for contestants to participate in a pilot episode of a potential new game show.…
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