The power of this weblog never ceases to amaze me. Earlier this January, I wrote a blog post about an old friend of mine. Back in the early 1980’s, Jim McCaslin, a mobile disc jockey from Melbourne, Australia, used to send my old college radio station Australian and New Zealand import records, so that WHCL…
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You know the drill. Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg showed me who’s boss
On Wednesday, I saw a news report that Facebook was going to institute a new program whereby any status updates you make – no matter when or how long ago they were made – can be turned into instant testimonials for advertiser product. The last thing I needed was to go on Facebook and find…
Read MoreWeek 20 of the $2,500 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Yowza, yowza, yowza. No, I’m not quoting the refrain from Chic’s classic dance track “Dance, Dance, Dance” (you know, the hit they had BEFORE “Le Freak”). It’s an old reference to a motion picture called They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? The film chronicles the story of a dance marathon that seems to last for weeks…
Read MoreGoodbye to the Frost Heaves
I really hate when a minor league sports team folds. I really do. Sometimes it seems like the team is trying to get out of the market as fast as possible, trying to burn its bridges and then blame the fans for the lack of support. Oh, it’s the fans’ fault the team is leaving,…
Read MoreTen for Thursday – Spanish Motown, German Beatles and ABBA in Swedish
Once upon a time, back in the early years of rock and roll, artists were actually encouraged to record versions of their biggest songs in foreign languages. Why would they do this? It’s for the same reason that you don’t hear J-Pop or ye-ye music on FLY 92 in its original language. This is not…
Read MoreWe’re all survivors, you and me.
It has never been easy. Life never is. The perfect life is only a fantasy. Truly the perfect life is what you make of it. What you assemble. What you create. It’s your choice. It’s your decision. But sometimes the decisions work against you. Sometimes your plans go astray, and they’re outside your control. A…
Read MoreWell, look what’s hanging in a London art gallery…
Phil Coomes is a BBC photographer who, when Kodak announced in 2009 that they would no longer manufacture Kodachrome film, embarked on his own personal Kodachrome photography project. His project, “64×64: Farewell to Kodachrome,” featured him publishing a Kodachrome photograph to the flickr website once a day, every day, for 448 straight days. The book,…
Read MoreThe final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 26, 2010 – My final roll ever.
The roll: Kodachrome 64, purchased on eBay. My final roll of Kodachrome 64. The date: December 26, 2010. Last day I can shoot anything in Kodachrome and still make a development delivery date to Kansas. The camera: Kiev 19. The lens: Nikon 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens, nicknamed the “Rachel.” Time to shoot. It was extremely…
Read MoreThe final four rolls of Kodachrome: December 25, 2010
The roll: Kodachrome 64, purchased on eBay. It was in my freezer until it was time to shoot. The date: December 25, 2010. Christmas Day. The camera: Kiev 19. The lens: Nikon 300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens, nicknamed the “Rachel.” Time to shoot. I had a roll of Kodachrome 200 in the freezer, but I chose…
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