Sometimes the FOX network puts a show on TV and it just stinks up the channel. Sometimes the shows get fewer viewers than an Albany City School District board meeting. For every “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader” or “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” there have been some “which moron green-lighted this program” fare, including:…
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That’s where I’m located. Me and eventually 999,999 other people. In fact, you can see me here. This is part of a new book called “One Million People,” and it’s an upcoming book which will feature the pictures of one million people in our current digital world. This is the brainchild of Alex Tew, who…
Read MoreMockingbird Marathon: Buying my copy of the book
So I’m getting ready for the November 6th “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill A Saturday” fundraiser, in which a public reading of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will take place to benefit the Literacy Volunteers of the Greater Capital Region. Since I’m one of the readers for the event, it pretty much behooved me to actually go…
Read MoreA Prayer for Tyler Clementi
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I still can’t stop thinking about this horrible story. I’ve been sick over it for the past day or two. An 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University killed himself. Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge. His body was recovered last Wednesday. And we instantly found out that he…
Read MoreWeek 4 of the $2,500 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
It was a tough three weeks in the tournament. But not this week. In the fourth week of the Elbo Room big money trivia tournament, my Street Academy team had a full compliment of trivia teammates – myself, Jeremy and Alexis. I should also note that after a one-week hiatus from the bar, the team…
Read MoreReplacing my Saturn Ion with … the Batmobile???
There is no argument. The five coolest TV and movie cars anyone could ever own are the 1973 Ford Gran Torino, red body with white checkmark a la Starsky and Hutch; the black Pontiac Trans Am that Burt Reynolds drove from Texarkana to Atlanta in Smokey and the Bandit; the 1971 Dodge Challenger from the…
Read MoreDickie Goodman – the music pioneer you never heard of
Once upon a time, back in the 1950’s, two struggling New York City songwriters, Bill Buchanan and Richard “Dickie” Goodman, came up with a musical concept that, at the time, was controversial and litigious – yet today, is as much a part of popular music as an auto-tune machine. Today we call the concept “Sampling,”…
Read MoreShowing some support for Carrie Ann May
So a few days ago, I blogged about getting back into working with the Premier Basketball League for its fourth consecutive season of operations. I talked about how I first joined up with the PBL, how I did everything from photography to statistics to game write-ups – and in other posts on this blog, I…
Read MoreThe Albany County Rail Trail in Kodachrome
I can’t wait for the Albany County Rail Trail to open to the public. I can’t wait for this recreational hiking and biking trail to finally exist; I want to photograph every scenic stretch and inch of the trial from Albany to Voorheesville. I want to walk and jog and traverse the nine-mile trail until…
Read MoreAmanda Talar’s Night at the Comedy Club
Say it with me, my loyal readers. In the Times Union blogging community, you support your fellow bloggers if you can. There’s no question – you just do it. Because someday you may need their support or their camaraderie. Fellow TU blogger Greg Aidala hosts a series of stand-up comedy workshops, and has done so…
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