NOTE: These are meant to be taken as humor and satire, and are not to be interpreted as any sort of malicious attack on state workers. Besides, if you’ve got better state worker jokes, add them to the comments section. Q. How many state workers does it take to change a light bulb? A. One,…
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Capping my Facebook Friends
I got involved with Facebook about a year ago, when some of the players I know from the Premier Basketball League “friended” me. So I joined. And eventually I began “friending” people as well. I played card games on Facebook, I shared some of my photos on Facebook, I got back in touch with college…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 28 – Ballpoint
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreMy 10 Favorite Emotion-Packed Movies
I’ve had this happen many times in my life. Breakups. Lost opportunities. The kind where you just want to go home, stop by a Stewart’s on the way and pick up a tub of ice cream and some soda and some candy, sit in front of the television, and pop a film into the DVD…
Read MoreA Memorial Day Blog Post: Victory Music
NOTE: I wrote the following article, which was originally published in Goldmine magazine in February, 1999. I wrote this piece after interview several members of the original V-Disc project, a program designed to bring music to World War II soldiers and sailors throughout the theater of battle. It is being reprinted here as part of…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 27 – Confessional
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreA Polar Panorama of Joe Bruno Stadium
Polar panoramas are way-cool photographic collages. You stand in a certain point, and then you take a series of photographs – take a picture, turn a few degrees to your right, take another picture, turn a few degrees to your right, until you’ve completed a full circle. Then you run the photographs through a stitching…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 26 – Smokey’s Pitch
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreWeek 15 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Sometimes the stars are aligned in just the right way. Sometimes the lucky penny lands right side up. And in last night’s round of trivia at Elbo Room, things worked out just fine for Street Academy, my trivia team. See, all tournament long we were booed, we were goofed on, we took a ton of…
Read MoreThis is what you do … and you don’t question it
This happened about two weeks ago. And I’m still thinking about it. It’s a sunny Thursday morning. I’m in the car, driving to pick up Washington Avenue to access one of the interstates. Truth be told, I was actually on one of the side streets, waiting for the traffic light to change from red to…
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