Yesterday, for some unknown reason, I had Paul Simon’s lyrics to “The Sounds of Silence” running through my head. Don’t know why. I’ve always appreciated that song, both the acoustic version – and the “electrified” version that we hear on Top 40 radio. And I kept thinking about how eloquent and versatile the Paul Simon…
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“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 MoreThe Star Trails of Paradox Lake
The goal: capturing brilliant star trails, the curved streaks across the evening sky, using only my film cameras. I’ve captured them in the past with my digital camera; now I want to try it by using my mechanical cameras achieve the same brilliance. There’s a distinct advantage in using a mechanical camera, rather than a…
Read MoreSeven “Reality TV” locations I want to visit some day
No, I don’t need to live on an island in the South Pacific. No, I don’t need to live in a studio home with a bunch of other contestants / bachelors / MMA fighters. No. I’ve watched enough reality television in my life to know that if I had the opportunity, if I had the…
Read MoreOne Thousand Consecutive Days! YAY!! PAR-TEEEE!!
It’s August 25, 2009, and my first blog post hits the Times Union blog portal. And for every day until that moment, there has always been at least one new blog post from me – one new blog post a day, up and ready. And today, the streak continues. This post marks over two and…
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 MoreK-Chuck Radio: Forgotten 1990’s Hits
My feelings about CRUSH FM radio are thus. I will listen to CRUSH FM until they play Blackstreet’s “No Diggity.” That means I’m listening to CRUSH FM for about ten minutes a day. And for a station that prides itself on playing the “hits of the 90’s,” I’m surprised that CRUSH FM hasn’t opened their…
Read MoreGod’s Rays
It’s that straight shaft of light that emanates from the clouds to the ground. They’re known as the sun’s crepuscular rays; they’re also known as “God’s Rays.” Background. Last Wednesday, as I headed home to my apartment in the Town/Village, I saw a storm brewing to the north. The clouds were black and angry. But…
Read MoreTetrameter, the Bear that’s Trapped in a Tree
One day I walked along the street The concrete sidewalk below my feet When up in a tree – just right over there I saw him – a great big old black bear I said, “Hi bear, what are you doin’? We don’t get visits that often from bruins.” He said, “I’m lost and I…
Read MoreHappy Upstate New York Day!!
You didn’t know that May 18th is Upstate New York Day? How could you have missed it? Were you not looking at the calendar? Did Siri not remind you? Wow… Yeah, May 18th is Upstate New York Day. It’s not celebrated in Utica or Syracuse or anywhere west of there; and don’t look for it…
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