Barry Bonds slugged three home runs, including his 62nd and 63rd home runs of the season, in San Francisco’s 9-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Those home runs were scored in Bonds’ 144th game of the year, eighteen games fewer than the number of games it took Roger Maris to reach 61 home runs in…
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Week 1 of the $2,500 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
“BOOOO!!!!!!” “GO HOME, STREET ACADEMY!” “YOU STINK, STREET ACADEMY!!” The catcalls could be heard the minute I walked in the Elbo Room. Ah, the Skids are in the building. Wouldn’t be a tournament if they weren’t dragging up the rear of the standings. Hee. Oh it’s back. Back like fall foliage in the Berkshires. The…
Read MoreThis just in – Qu’rans will NOT be burned in Florida on September 11th
According to this America Online news report, pastor Terry Jones of the Dove Evangelical Church in Florida has changes his plans to have a public demonstration and Qu’ran burning on September 11th – and, according to his news conference, he will not burn any of the Islamic holy books on that day, or on any…
Read MoreTen Really Groovy Sunshine Pop Songs
Sunshine Pop is one of the most denigrated and ridiculed genres of the rock and roll era. It’s been classified as bubblegum pop, it’s been derided as “Brady Bunch music,” or “AM Radio filler.” No self-respecting Led Zeppelin fan would ever be caught dead listening to it. But take a moment and listen to these…
Read MoreThe Harriet Gibbons High School farewell party
Last night, the staff of Harriet Gibbons High School held a farewell party for the 40-year-old alternative high school. It was a chance to celebrate the school’s many successes, and to bring a small amount of closure to a school’s traumatic culling by the Albany City School District. The school’s closing still affects me. It…
Read MoreReturning to Mohler and Choo, D.D.S.
Last January, after I cracked one of my back teeth, I resolved to quit my substandard brushing habits and confront my fear of the dentist head-on. Or at least teeth-on. Truth be told, over the years I had let my poor dental hygiene get the better of me. I’ve gone through cleanings and fillings and…
Read MoreThe Adventures of Eric Couplet
Eric Couplet was your average teenager, with average dreams and an average life. But one day, something above-average happened. The government still has the information classified as an “eyes only” security clearance, but the most anyone can tell is that criminals broke into a military laboratory and stole a rare and valuable chemical. The unclassified…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Shooting Modern Stereopticon 3-D Images
You’ve seen them at antique stores – two pictures mounted on a cardboard backer. The photos look similar, but upon putting the slides in a viewing device, you can see what appears to be a three-dimensional image in the photograph. It’s the same principle used with View-Master reels. Now if you’re trying to create your…
Read MoreTwelve Missing Seasons
It’s 2005, and the Albany Patroons are coming back to the Continental Basketball Association for the first time in twelve years. And I’m psyched. Psyched to the point where I wanted to get my hands on old Patroons memorabilia, and next thing I know I”m on eBay snapping up every piece of Pats gear I…
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I took this shot during a Rochester-Halifax PBL basketball game in March of 2010. Photo by me. Caption by you.
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