It’s been a popular metaphor for pop music, ballads, breakup songs and the like. A game of cards. Whether it’s poker, bridge, Canasta, whatever – the deck of cards, and the games played with them, have worked their way into pop songs for the past fifty years. And here on K-Chuck Radio, we’re taking the…
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A sneak peak at Season 2 of “Downton Abbey”
Oh I know you’ve been waiting for this. Last year, millions of television viewers – including yours truly – got hooked on Downton Abbey, the British period drama that currently airs in America as part of PBS’s Masterpiece anthology series. We got hooked on the machinations and intricacies of the world of Lord and Lady…
Read MoreA day late and a dollar short
One of my credit cards, whom for the purposes of this blog you will know as the Rainy Day Credit Card Company – associated with Rainy Day Bank and Trust Company – requires a minimum payment by the first of the month. No problem. I have the money, and since there is a brick-and-mortar branch…
Read MoreSupporting Historic Albany Foundation’s “BUILT” Silent Auction
A few weeks ago, when I dropped off some rolls of film to McGreevy Pro Lab for developing, the clerk at McGreevy, fellow photographer Joe Putrock, asked if I had considered entering anything into Historic Albany Foundation’s “BUILT” silent auction and art show. “No,” I replied. “I thought the deadline had passed.” “It hasn’t passed,”…
Read MoreJulie Benz, from Dexter and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, reads my blog! WOW!!
That headline is not a misprint. And I’m still wondering how it all happened. But trust me… I’m not complaining. Not one iota. It’s Saturday morning – maybe 2 a.m. – and I can’t sleep. When I’m feeling low, my insomnia kicks in, and that’s never a good thing. So after playing a game of…
Read MoreJeremy Mayfield and a River in Egypt
Although I’m not as big a NASCAR fan as I once was, I do enjoy watching the races from time to time – mostly preferring the short-tracks like Bristol and Martinsville and Dover rather than the super-speedways like Talladega or Daytona (although I do have an affinity for Darlington in the superspeedway department, how cool…
Read MoreWeek 9 of the 2011 $2,000 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
When I was a kid, I used to love playing with pinball machines. Over time, I learned how to use each flipper independently, learned how to access high scores without having to shake the machine into TILT-land, and eventually found the best and most satisfying goal of pinball – to be able to set as…
Read More«Pardonnez-moi … Est-ce un Rolleiflex?»
Last Saturday, between my stint photographing basketball games in Quebec City (Kebs won twice, nice), I decided to take my Rolleiflex camera out for an evening stroll through downtown. I had five rolls of 120 film at the ready, and I wanted to relax and take in the sites of Albany’s Canadian sister city. First…
Read MoreThe Fragments
There are those who swear that in the morning, when they wake up, they remember everything about their dreams. They claim to remember every moment, every word, every comment from their slumber. Me… all I can remember is maybe a word, a phrase, a note, a number. And no earthly reason why I would even…
Read MoreThe Sea-Green Bicycle
I don’t know what it was about the bicycle that caught my eye. Whether it was its light nautical sea-green paint job, the multicolored flowers in its white handlebar basket, or its bright, cheery appearance along the gritty, rainy New York City avenue – whatever reason it was, I had to take a picture of…
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