The recent story involving a Saratoga Springs High School yearbook, in which a girl’s picture was altered to show her with unflattering yellow teeth – and then the uproar afterward, with the picture being scissored out of copies of the yearbook, and then later the yearbook company agreeing to reprint the volume with the photo…
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The Ten Hottest Television and Movie Cars
We live in a car culture. We want the cars that will make all the girls turn their heads. Cars full of muscle and power and energy, cars that are indeed an extension of ourselves – or, at least, our sense of ourselves. And when we watch our favorite television shows and movies, there are…
Read MoreThe Hooters Reunion Trivia game at Graney’s Stout
On Tuesday night, I arrived at Graney’s Stout bar on Broadway in North Albany for their first Tuesday night trivia game, and this game would be special – a “Hooters Reunion” of the best trivia teams to ever win at the legendary restaurant. Among the classic teams to return for another round – Lynch’s Mob,…
Read MoreLodge’s Store in PolaBlue
Remember when I said that Polaroid 35mm instant slide film was some of the toughest film I’ve ever worked with? The high-contrast PolaChrome and PolaBlue films were extremely temperamental, and getting anything that resembled more than just a swirled color blob was nothing short of a miracle? Well, in the last batch of PolaBlue film,…
Read MoreCongratulations to another Albany Patroons alumnus winning an NBA title
I waited all day to see if the Times Union sports writers would mention this. And none of them did. Yeah, like I expected the Times Union to mention anything positive regarding the Albany Patroons. You know… the basketball team, played in the Armory, moved to that big arena downtown, moved to Hartford, moved back…
Read MoreRemembering Frontier Town
Once upon a time, the Adirondacks were filled from one end of Route 9 to the other with amusement parks. Most of them have faded away, others have evolved under the aegis of new ownerships. You might remember some of those classic nams – the Land of Makebelieve, 1000 Animals, Gaslight Village… In the past,…
Read MoreRest in peace, Carl Gardner. Just tell those hoodlum friends outside… you ain’t got time to take a ride.
Maxine Pinkney is a good friend of mine; she was the widow of Bill Pinkney, one of the original members of the classic R&B group The Drifters. Pinkney, who was a member of the Drifters alongside Clyde McPhatter, sang bass for the vocal harmony group, and it’s Pinkney’s voice that can be heard on their…
Read MoreWhat Cheryl Bremble did was beyond reprehensible
What Cheryl Bremble did was absolutely horrible. Disgusting. And shameful. And for all of you who have taken Anthony Weiner to task for his transgressions, I hope you give this worthless excuse for a woman the same vitriol in spades. This 40-year-old Philadelphia special education teacher has been arrested for sending several explicit text messages…
Read More“Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SANE!!!”
At one point in time, they were the most popular electronics store in New York City. And they had the most iconic commercials ever made. I’m talking about the electronics outlet known as Crazy Eddie. From the late 1970’s until maybe the late 1980’s, you couldn’t turn on a New York City television station without…
Read More“Delivery for Chuck Miller, Олбани, США”
The package arrived in the mail, all the way from the sunny shores of Ukraine – courtesy of one of my eBay sellers. This is cool. I’ve been waiting for this for about two weeks. And as I opened the package up – yep. Just what I was looking for. Six packs of Свема (Svema)…
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