Resolved. I need to break my routine. I can’t keep going home from a trivia league game with zero points. I have to do better. And this week, I did. Mostly thanks to a new team that showed up at Graney’s Stout – and basically violated the tenets of tavern trivia. Let me explain. As…
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Trivia fundraiser for animal rescue, come play!
If you love playing competitive team trivia – and you want to help support animal rescue efforts – have I got news for you. The Trivia Nights Live company, in conjunction with Free To Be Me Rescue, is offering a trivia fundraiser on September 24th at Wolf’s 1-11 on Wolf Road in Colonie. Teams are…
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The ownership of golden pins
Over the weekend, I began work on a new Dream Window project. No, I’m not going to reveal its concept to you right now. These projects take time. Trust me on this. As part of the project, I placed an eBay order for an item that contained various stickpins associated with the project’s concept. Yesterday,…
Read MoreGene Wilder, Richard Pryor and Northway Mall
The passing of Gene Wilder yesterday caught us in our heart and in our soul. One of the best actors of our generation, a man who could play comedy and tragedy and off-kilter characters, and switch from one genre to another with minimal effort, Gene Wilder was a true theater genius. And while most of…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The Vanda and Young Songbook
For those of you who realized that MTV gave up showing music videos years ago, and whose MTV Video Music Awards featured artists no one has ever heard (besides, MTV shows more episodes of Catfish than they do music videos anyway), I wanted to share something different with you. Today’s K-Chuck Radio blast features the songwriting…
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Raskolnikov and The Intersection
Off and on, I’ve tried to create a “weave” photo, which would entail warping-and-wefting two different types of film together into one cohesive image. But none of my cameras had enough wide-angle ability to do it either properly or productively. At least nothing that would work as well as I preferred. So right now it’s…
Read MoreResults from the Washington State Fair Photo Contest, 2016
Competition Season 2016 has been a mixed bag for me. With only a few photo competitions left this year, I’ve had a photo year that’s been, shall we say, less than ideal. Maybe the results from the Washington State Fair will change that. Last July, I entered several photos in that State Fair’s digital photo…
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The Cathedral of St. Philco earned a silk of…
Here it is. This was once an old Philco radio cabinet, a worn-out husk that I bought on eBay for a few dollars. I added colored glass, dollhouse furniture and velvet interior, and created something spiritual and special. I didn’t plan on building this artwork for anything other than a proof of concept, a way…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, August 25, 2016: Ten for Thursday
By the time you get a chance to read this, I’ll be on the road. Essentially, I’m on my way to Syracuse for the opening day of the New York State Fair, and to find out how my mixed-media dollhouse The Cathedral of St. Philco did in its competition. And before I go any further,…
Read MoreWeek 8 of the 2016 Graney’s Stout Summer Trivia League
What’s the worst thing you can do in competitive team trivia? Is it mess up on the final three questions, to the point where your quickly-earned lead suddenly drifts into fifth place? Is it to bet all your points and hope that you get the right answer on a category for which you think you…
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