A month or so ago, I tried to mess around with Polaroid’s 35mm instant slide films, including the blue-white contrasting film PolaBlue.ย My first test results weren’t all that spectacular, and I was about to give up on the project entirely. Then I found another couple of canisters of both PolaBlue and PolaChrome film, and…
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The Dash
We live our lives as a dash. Not the dash of salt that we put on our food. Not the dash to catch the bus so that we’re not late. The dash might seem to us short or long, or too short or not long enough, but it’s the same length for everybody.ย We measure…
Read MoreWeek 8 of the 2011 $1,000 Elbo Room Spring Trivia Tournament
So I’m sitting at the bar at Elbo Room tonight. My team is just me tonight; Jeremy and Alexis are in Florida, both seeing who can get more suntanned without getting completely roasted. While I’m waiting for General James to ask the first round of questions, I start thinking about all the teammates I’ve had…
Read MoreThis is why “Weird Al” Yankovic is 27 times better than Lady Gaga – or at least her management company
“Weird Al” Yankovic has carved a successful career as an actor, as an author, and as a video music director.ย And if his current career path doesn’t work out, he can always fall back on that engineering degree he earned at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Oh yeah, and he’s a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-parodist-satirist.ย You know……
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: 70’s Smooth Songs
What I’m playing now are some easy listening classics, the kind of music you heard back in the day when WGY actually played mellow Top 40 music.ย Well, so did WROW, inbetween tracks from the Ray Conniff Singers and the 101 Strings.ย But I digress. So with that in mind, let me blast you back…
Read MoreRest in peace, Elisabeth Sladen… the best companion Doctor Who ever had.
I’ve been a peripheral Doctor Who fan – if there’s an episode on or if the TV station is running the entire run of a certain multipart episode, I’ll sit and watch it. I haven’t really gotten into the current iterations of the Doctor, I’m of the generation that appreciated Tom Baker and Peter Davison.…
Read MoreOn May 10, we lose Stuyvesant Photo
It was a halftime trivia break at Brown’s, and I took a few moments and sent a text to my Street Academy trivia team buddies Jeremy and Alexis, who are now getting suntanned in Florida (they flew Continental, and as far as they told me there wasn’t a single problem with their flight).ย I then…
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines Flight 1699 – Follow-up
It’s Monday morning and I’m still seething from my disastrous weekend flight-that-failed trip.ย Thankfully some of my friends kept in touch with me through text messages and phone calls, whether I was either trapped in Hartford or trapped in Baltimore.ย See, this is what good friends do. On the way back from Hartford, while driving…
Read MoreRehearsal footage of an upcoming British wedding posted on YouTube
So there’s supposedly some big wedding going on in England in a couple of weeks. I think it involves some guy with a lot of “old money” – I think his last name is either Windsor or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha or some derivative of same. And he’s marrying some girl whose parents set up their…
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines Flight 1699 – the Flight From HELL
I had everything planned out.ย This was going to be a perfect trip.ย I would go to the PBL Championship finals in Lawton, Oklahoma; and on an off-day I would travel to Oklahoma City and do some sightseeing. The PBL had my ticket ready; I would fly out of Bradley International Airport in Hartford (okay,…
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