City Lights is my all-time favorite motion picture. It’s Charlie Chaplin’s finest performance – you can argue that his work with The Kid and The Gold Rush is more significant, but this film – released in the 1930’s, after the advent of synchronized sound in motion pictures, yet still retaining Chaplin’s mute Tramp character –…
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K-Chuck Radio: It’s Classic Power Pop Time!
This week, K-Chuck Radio brings you some classic “power pop” songs. These are the tracks that show a strong influence by the Beatles, the Who and the Kinks – along with a mixture of classic American pop music like the Box Tops and the Rascals. Again, many of these tracks may not have gotten the…
Read MoreHoly product placement, Batman!
What is it about the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder – Batman and Robin – that makes advertisers want to put them in commercials? I tell you, when they’re not battling the Penguin or the Joker, Batman and Robin do a helluva job as product pitchmen. Such as, for example. ZAYRE Batman and Robin…
Read MoreFirst round results of my entries into the Albany Institute of History and Art’s Mohawk-Hudson Regionals
Waiting for the e-mail can be a brain-numbing experience. It’s not like going to your mailbox at home – if the mailman has arrived and all you see in the mailbox are bills and Valpak coupons, and nothing from the judges, then you grit your teeth and say to yourself, “Maybe I’ll hear tomorrow.” But…
Read MoreCompetition #2 – the Albany Institute of History and Art Mohawk-Hudson Regionals
So I went 0-for-5 with the Albany Center Gallery’s Photo Regionals. That sucks. At the same time that I submitted entries for the Albany Center Gallery’s 33rd annual Photo Regional, I submitted five other images to the Albany Institute of History and Art’s Mohawk-Hudson Regionals competition. I didn’t want to duplicate any entries between the…
Read MoreThe Rapture Causes A Fraction of Function
It’s about ten minutes to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening. I just got back from a photo shoot in Washington Park, and was unloading my Agfa Chief camera with its vintage 616 film. I checked the news reports. No Rapture yet. I was getting better information on the Preakness Stakes than on the Rapture. I…
Read MoreA little prayer to St. Teresa of Avila for a splitfilm photo…
Last Sunday, I tried to take some pictures in St. Agnes Cemetery. Unfortunately, mother Nature was busy unloading gallons and gallons of water from the sky, which meant that I couldn’t get the beautiful, sunny day I had hoped to achieve. I had two “prepared” cameras – my Holga 120N and my Agfa Chief –…
Read MoreRest in peace, “Macho Man” Randy Savage
I grew up watching professional wrestling. My heroes were Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund, Chief Jay Strongbow and Haystacks Calhoun. These were the larger-than-life heroes who battled the evil Stan “The Man” Stasiak, Professor Toru Tanaka, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine and Bulldog Brower. My earliest exposure to professional wrestling was as a kid, watching the…
Read MoreWeek 12 of the $1,000 Elbo Room Spring Trivia Tournament
So prior to last night’s round of competitive team trivia, I was at Crossgates Mall, “doing a nice” for my daughter Cassaundra. Cassaundra, who lives in Seattle, called me at around 4pm Eastern, asking if I knew whether there were any Lids hat stores other than in Colonie Center or in Crossgates Mall. I said…
Read MoreExposed electrical wires
I blogged about this a long time ago – back in my old blogspot days – but I’m feeling like sharing today. Whenever my wife Vicki got angry with me for something, she always tossed this little dig at me: “The reason we bought this house was that I thought I married a handyman who…
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