I can joke that this doesn’t happen very often for me, but in all honesty, I’m sure it happens for every football fan at one time or another. As many of you know, my favorite NFL football team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. I’ve never lived in Pittsburgh, but when I started collecting football cards and…
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Joe Paterno: Death of a Tarnished Icon
I can’t imagine the grief around State College right now. I just can’t. Joe Paterno passed away today. He was 85. If this had happened last year, we would have read obituaries with words like “longtime coach” and “icon” and “Nittany Lion pride” and “hardscrabble” and “unstoppable” and “national championships.” And today, the obituaries read…
Read MoreSpam Stroganoff
When you’re a single parent – as I was from approximately 1988 to 1994 – you learn to experiment with food and meals to keep your kids happy. Don’t get me wrong – I fed my daughter Cassaundra and her sister Sonya very well during those years, they weren’t just “getting by” on junk food…
Read More“Alcatraz” and other TV shows “behind bars”
So I finally got around to watching the new J.J. Abrams genre drama Alcatraz. Does it remind me of Abrams’ other TV show for Fox, Fringe? Yeah. Blonde lead female character, quirky assistant for some comic relief, shady secretive sci-fi operation, yeah. I’ll be expecting the alternate universes halfway through the first season. That being…
Read MoreWeek 19 of the $2,000 2011-12 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
No, I wasn’t at Elbo Room last night. I was actually on the road, working on a photography assignment. The trivia host, General James, was kind enough to forward who won the playoff points. Apparently Woo Hoo a Go Go won Week 19 of the Elbo Room tournament, with a team called The Grudge –…
Read More“A dozen fancy donuts, please…”
The cashier at the Dunkin’ Donuts looked at me as if to say, “Who are you and what have you done with the Chuck Miller that usually comes in here and only orders the wake-up breakfast wrap and a diet cola?” But there was a reason for doing this. Sometimes it’s all you can do.…
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We can’t get JetBlue at Albany International Airport… but we can get a rat there…
For those of you who, like me, are huge fans of Stephan Pastis’ cartoon Pearls Before Swine, you might get a chuckle out of reading today’s cartoon strip. In the cartoon, Pastis – who is a character in his own strip, along with his creations Rat, Pig, Goat, Zebra and the Crocodiles – laments to…
Read MoreMy Flame-Powered Camera Gear
For the past year, I’ve found some great photo life in my old Agfa Chief 616 box camera. It’s allowed me to both experiment with vintage film, but also to evolve my “splitfilm” trick of using two rolls of film in one camera. In fact, it was this bad beast that produced one of my…
Read MoreA “Come To Jesus” meeting with the Chilly Day Credit Card Company
I have three credit cards in my wallet. Two of them – which I will refer to on this blog as the “Sunny Day Credit Card” and “Rainy Day Credit Card” companies – treat me fairly. I’ve been with Sunny Day for 13 years and Rainy Day for 8; both cards have a solid customer…
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