And… I wish I could challenge my brains Going for broke, trusting achieving erudite wordplays for Pi Day The physical test, trying to follow step was the lipogram for my skilled languaged blogs previously. If anything, blogging with a framework against a strict structure can challenge everybody. You, brother, daddy, a basketball guard throwing up,…
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Homophobic, Anti-Semitic vulgarities at Massachusetts high school basketball game
This is classless. It’s offensive and it’s vulgar and both schools should be ashamed of their students’ actions. Follow me on this. Last Friday, Newton North High School played Catholic Memorial in a Massachusetts high school basketball tournament game. Catholic Memorial won the game 77-73, but the game itself was marred by the fan sections…
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The UPS epic fail
If I get a package delivered to me via the U.S. Postal Service, and I’m not home, then Mike the Mailman will leave a note on my door letting me know I can pick up the package at my local post office, or I can sign the note and the package will be delivered the…
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An Instamatic Throwback, or: A Favor for Lefty
One of my photographic experiments has involved working with Kodak’s Instamatic film – technically known as “126” film, or as I call it, that stuff I try to crack out of its original cartridges and shoot, even though it’s five days older than dirt. Now here’s the thing. Fresh Instamatic film hasn’t been manufactured in…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, March 10, 2016: Ten For Thursday
All right, all right, this week I have to retain self control. If I say “ten for Thursday,” it has to be ten. Ten of the Times Union’s best community and independent bloggers. Ten blogs by people who write for the love of their opinion and the desire to share their thoughts. I gotta stop…
Read More“Time After Time” – 1979 movie, 2016 TV series?
I was a HUGE fan of the 1979 science fiction time travel movie Time After Time, in which H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) chased Jack the Ripper (David Warner) through the streets of modern-day San Francisco. It was suspenseful, it was funny, it was one of those films that I saw in the theater – and…
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The Emulsive Interview
This is waycool beyond belief. And I have this little weblog to thank for it. Yesterday, the film photography online magazine Emulsive published an interview with yours truly, featuring my photographic experiments with, among other techniques, splitfilm. You know … that little technique where I put more than one roll of film in a camera…
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Scooby-Doo “Mystery Machine” in real-life high speed chase
Well, this is certainly worthy of being “News of the Weird.” Or should I say… “Zoinks” and “Jinkies” and “I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for your meddling kids.” Police in Redding, California were on the lookout for 51-year-old Sharon Kay Turman, who had wanted on a probation violation. They…
Read MoreStorytown / Great Escape creator documentary airs tonight on WMHT
The upstate amusement park Storytown U.S.A., now known as the Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom, has been a part of our cultural experience for over sixty years. And thanks to the visionary genius of Charles R. Wood, this park has made countless children and parents happy. Trust me. Any man who can bring The Comet…
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Jeopardy! – Chuck Miller blog edition
Jeopardy! is a fun television show. In fact, two of the TU’s community bloggers – Roger Green and Tara Whittle – have appeared on the program. The other day, I found a meme generator that creates Jeopardy! clues in the same blue background and serifed font as what one would see on the show. A…
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