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…
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Week 10 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
If you’re playing in a regular trivia tournament, in which the top prize is a bar gift certificate or whatever promotional tchotchkes were left over from the prize vault, missing a bonus question or a high value point question isn’t the end of the world. But if you’re playing for an eventual $1,500 prize, you…
Read MoreA Golden Arm, a Head of Steel and Feet of Clay
This is a very important blog post for me. It needs to be written, if for no other reason than I need closure. Especially when I read Kristi Gustafson’s post this morning, where when she was asked about whether she should write a blog post about Big Ben and she thought it meant the clock…
Read MorePhotographing a Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn in Dutchess County
A while back, when I was working on my ghost signs photography project, I realized that although there were plenty of Uneeda Biscuit and Coca-Cola faded brickads in the Capital District, there was one type of outdoor advertising icon that didn’t get all the way up to the Capital area. I’m talking about Mail Pouch…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill – Chapter 10: Bedside
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 MoreThe Missing “Star Wars” footage
It was May of 1977, and I remember where I saw it first. I was in line at the Cine 1-2-3-4-5-6 behind Northway Mall, waiting to see Star Wars for its first week on the big screen. I already knew some of the story; for the past three months the movie’s plotline had been serialized…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 9 – Brawl
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 MorePhotographing an Exploding Basketball Backboard
It’s a moment everybody wants to see, but nobody knows when it’s coming. In March 2008, I was photographing the Premier Basketball League finals between the Rochester Razorsharks and the Arkansas Impact at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester. During the first quarter, Rochester’s Keith Friel tried to hit a three-point jumper, only to have the…
Read MoreThe Cheeziest Pop Songs of the 1970’s
Fellow TU poster J. Eric Smith has a blog post about songs you should really hear. In the blog post, he mentioned a Bee Gees song, and someone responded about how they enjoyed the Bee Gees song “(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts.” At which point J. Eric mentioned that it seemed incongruous that the…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 8 – Arrival in Bark Creek
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…
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