It’s Monday night, and I’m at Brown’s Brewing. Yes, it’s time for my Monday night trivia game, and prior to the event I had a dinner meeting set up. See, I’ve been enjoying the Detention with DerryX weblog, and my guest for dinner tonight was Jerry Papandrea, the ubiquitous DerryX. And I gotta tell you,…
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You call it “Gatchaman,” I call it “Battle of the Planets”
It’s very fascinating to watch the evolution of anime. In the 1960’s, Americans were introduced to anime with programs like Astro Boy and Gigantor and Speed Racer. By the 1980’s, shows like Voltron and Robotech and Star Blazers took anime to new heights. By the 1990’s, shows like Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon and…
Read MoreRunning for twenty consecutive years
Michele Poole still has all her original running bibs. All nineteen of them. Even the one that still has ink smears from the time she finished the race in the pouring rain. And last Thursday night, she showed me every one of the little paper-and-safety-pin badges, as she prepared for her 20th consecutive Freihofer’s Run…
Read MoreThe customer service at Latham’s Hobby Lobby
Okay. Am I obsessing a bit about getting my photographs ready for the Altamont Fair photography contest? A bit? Well, maybe not a bit… Last week, I began framing work on two of the four pictures I hope to enter in the Altamont Fair photography contest. The Altamont Fair contest allows the entrants to frame…
Read MoreNew movie trailer explains why the Star Wars prequels stunk…
Follow along with me. Apparently, at some point after finishing Return of the Jedi, George Lucas had it all. And then, suddenly, he disappeared. In his place, a doppelgänger directed the “prequel” Star Wars movies, inserting everything from Jar Jar Binks to more Jar Jar Binks to even MORE Jar Jar Binks. The original Lucas,…
Read MoreA Swiss Roll Photo at Washington Park
Last Saturday morning, I received a package in the mail. It was a roll of 616 Kodak Verichrome film, with an expiration date of 1944. Yes, 1944. And I know very well that I’ll be lucky if I get silhouettes out of this roll of film – but maybe that can work to my advantage.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio – 1960’s Pop-Rock from a Land Down Under
Imagine if your country was bombarded by the two strongest musical influences of the 1960’s – the Beatles and Motown. You’re hearing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “You Can’t Hurry Love” on the radio every 20 minutes or so, and you form a band and you either cover these classics, or you write your…
Read MoreSay hi to the Bull’s-Eye
A couple of weeks ago, my blog buddy Kevin Marshall tweeted that his friend Eric was having a yard sale. It was late afternoon when I received the tweet, and having apprenticed under my sainted Grandma Betty about the ins and outs of yard sales and flea markets, I knew that the early birds would…
Read MoreThat does it, I need a beer so I can get hammered…
I don’t care. I’ve had a rough few days, nothing’s worked out the way I wanted it to, and as far as I’m concerned, I’m gonna have me some beer. All I need to do is go get a can of… Of… Oh man… I didn’t realize that as a teetotaler, I have absolutely no…
Read MoreA “Caption Time” For all you puppy dog owners
Got this photo today at the Watervliet Memorial Day Parade. Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
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