My interior decorating tastes don’t lean toward French Provincial or Danish Modern or feng shui or any of those other styles. I lean more toward the style of Contemporary and Classical Advertising. Okay, it’s Man-Cave Modern. There. Happy? Those interior decorating tastes would certainly explain why I purchased this vintage beer advertising clock on eBay…
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Dream Window #2: The North Pearl Street Limited
My first stained-glass-and-photography collage, The Dream Window of Kenwood Avenue, turned out better than I had imagined. And with that in mind, I wanted to craft another “Dream Window,” and in putting this project together, I called upon all my photography and crafting skills – as well as a little ingenuity, luck and savvy. And…
Read More3 Capital District athletes among the 100 worst in history?
I get a kick out of reading Bleacher Report’s various lists. And when they created a slideshow list of the 100 worst athletes in sports history, yeah I had to take a look at it. Of course, I know that any time Bleacher Report creates one of these lists, it’s usually in a “click to…
Read More“You should give the tickets to me.”
The other day, I was talking with an acquaintance about my latest trivia competition. I’m currently playing in a nine-week tournament at Graney’s Stout, with the grand prize being four Jets-Dolphins NFL tickets and two nights’ lodgings at a Miami Beach hotel. “Sounds like a really tough tournament,” he said to me. “It is,” I…
Read MoreYou can get a free Chuck Miller art photo!
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but as of a few days ago, my blog now has a little box that allows you to receive e-mailed updates whenever a brand new Chuck Miller blog is posted. Yeah, yeah, I know, anybody with Google Reader can have this feature… But if you look at the top…
Read MoreHooked on “Unsung”
Remember the VH1 series Behind the Music, the show that discussed the trials and tribulations, the rises and falls, of popular singers and bands? Heck, the first two episodes featured the first truly in-depth overview of the Milli Vanilli scandal, which was followed by MC Hammer’s financial implosion. I used to love watching Behind the…
Read MoreQueen, “A Night at the Opera” is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
I’ve owned Queen’s LP A Night at the Opera in several different musical formats. I had the original LP. I had a remastered CD. I had the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab audiophile pressing. I’ve owned the 45’s. I probably purchased the 8-track tape back in the day, I don’t remember. I’ve previously told the story…
Read MorePositive stories of Olympics sportsmanship
Let’s see. Eight badminton players get expelled from the Olympics for sandbagging their matches and not trying to win, so that they would receive more comfortable placement in the quarterfinals. One female soccer player turned into a “socker” player, giving Abby Wambach a black eye. NBC tape-delayed the Olympics to the point where you think…
Read MoreDid Facebook Kill the Fagbug? (UPDATE: The page is back!)
Anybody remember the Fagbug in our area – the Volkswagen Beetle that was spraypainted with gay slurs, just because the car’s owner, Erin Davies, dared to have a rainbow sticker applied to her car’s rear window? You remember the story – Erin turned the vandalism into an opportunity to teach people about gender equality and…
Read MoreBig news for this old picture
Last year, one of my biggest photographic experiments involved shooting a roll of 60+ year old film in my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera. The pictures turned out better than I had expected; and the resulting blog post got picked up and retweeted and FB “liked” all over the world. Not bad for a shot of…
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