I can’t remember when I purchased this welcome mat. It may have been a month or two after I moved into my new apartment. It was a harsh winter this year, and I was tired of tracking mud and snow and salt into my home. I know, however, that I bought the welcome mat at…
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R.E.M., Hamilton College, and me
I searched through every box in my apartment last night. I have to find it for the blog. Did the item get lost in the move? It’s got to be someplace… somewhere… I know I pitched a lot of 45’s out the door when I moved out – a lot of them went to Goodwill,…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: If you’ve got the time, Miller’s got the tunes!
What’s the longest song you’ve ever enjoyed? Stairway to Heaven? American Pie? Bohemian Rhapsody? Hey Jude? Today on K-Chuck Radio, I’m breaking out the mega-long tracks. These were the songs that, on Top 40 radio, were trimmed to 3:00 – but on the albums, they were uber-extended jams. TOM CLAY What The World Needs Now…
Read More30 years ago this week, a very important rugby game was played in Bleecker Stadium.
Tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of a rugby game at Bleecker Stadium, a game between the South African Springboks national team and the United States national rugby team. It was more than just a game – it was a referendum on apartheid and race relations. The following article was originally published in Rugby Magazine…
Read MoreThe Weave: A New Photography Experiment
My buddy Jeremy McNamara recently sent me this picture, an artwork created by South Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park. “Can you figure out how this was done?” he asked me. Impressive… isn’t it? After much research, I found that Ms. Park, whose works have been shown throughout Asia and the United States, uses 16mm movie…
Read MoreThe Cohoes Falls: How to go from idea to photo entry in 72 hours flat!
I wasn’t planning on entering any more competitions this year. Yes, I still have to wait for the results of the Big E, and I did submit a photo to the St. Agnes Cemetery photo contest, but that was about it. That was until Ron LaBarr sent me an e-mail. Ron plays on the trivia…
Read MoreSo I heard back from my donated cameras…
Last June, I decided to donate two of my SLR film cameras – my red-leathered Kiev 19 and my blue-leathered Nikkormat FTn – to an organization called the Film Photography Podcast, an organization dedicated to the preservation of analogue film photography. The FPP will take old cameras and donate them to aspiring film students who…
Read MoreThe Sweater
College life can be full of distractions. These distractions appear from a variety of avenues – something going on at home, something going on in town, your favorite band is on its way to play a concert nearby, your have two pairs of undies left on Monday and no money for laundry until the end…
Read MoreWeek 2 of the $2,000 2011 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Before I start the recap from last night’s game, I tip my hat to Team Razor. The Razor, originally known as Occam’s Razor when they played at Hooters back in the day, became only the fourth competitive trivia team in the Capital District to have a perfect game – answering all 20 questions correctly. They…
Read MoreA webseries about obsessive photographers? Oh I gotta watch this…
Okay, I’ve been derided in the past as being obsessive with my cameras. Me? No… 🙂 Listen, I only own nine cameras, you don’t become a hoarder until you reach at least 15 cameras… 😀 However, I understand that there will be a brand new online comedy webseries devoted to a team of obsessive photographers…
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