I captured this photo last week, and I’ve been kinda on the fence as to whether or not to enter the picture in competition. If I do enter it, though… it’s going to need a decent name. I can’t just enter it as “photo.” You know my dilemma. So help me create a good caption…
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The self-destruction of Tammy Sytch
The first time I ever knew Tammy Sytch existed, she and her best friend / lover Chris Candido appeared on WWE (then WWF) wrestling programs, promoting themselves as “The Bodydonnas,” a self-conceited fitness team. Candido was Skip, and Sytch was Sunny. Skip did the wrestling, while Sunny acted as the sexy valet and creator of…
Read MoreEarth Wind and Fire: I’ll Write a Song For You
I originally wrote this article, a profile of the legendary band Earth, Wind and Fire, for Goldmine magazine way back in January 1998. The article consisted of extensive interviews with Maurice White, Philip Bailey and Verdine White. This article is being reprinted in today’s blog in honor and in memory of the legendary Maurice White,…
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It ain’t Hermès, it’s Herringbone
I’ve capped my limit to useable, shootable cameras at ten – my Nikons (the Df, the F100), my AGFAs (the Chief, the Clipper Special f/6.3), Kodak Red (my Kodak Medalist II), Leica Green (my Leica M3), my Rolleiflex Automat MX, my NIMSLO 3D film shooter, Raskolnkov (my Krasnogorsk ФT-2 super-ultrawide) and, as soon as it…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, February 4, 2016: Twenty for Thursday
While the Times Union feels compelled to promote their staff blogs as if they were the second coming of Star Wars movies, I prefer to step aside one day each week and showcase my fellow Times Union community and staff bloggers. They’re the ones that write excellent, forward-thinking articles, and who deserve to get the…
Read MoreFrontier Town buildings could be demolished soon
If there was any hope of restoring the closed Frontier Town amusement park to any sort of former glory… this news pretty much quashed that hope. According to the upstate New York website Sun Community News, legislators have discussed with the Essex County Board of Supervisors the need to demolish and dismantle the original remaining…
Read More“I want a lifetime supply of KitKats now!!”
Yes, I just said that headline in my best, squeaky Veruca Salt spoiled-brat voice. Here’s why. Saima Ahmad, a 20-year-old London legal student, loves KitKat chocolate bars. One day, she purchased a pack of the crunchy, chocolate treats and snacked on one of the bars. There was no crunch. She bit into another bar. No…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Guild of the Bloodline
Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty dandelions. Messer the shaggy Newfoundland dog counted the yellow blooming dandelions over and over again. Thirty on the little hill in the meadow of Collarworld, the afterlife home for pets to wait until they are reunited with their masters. Thirty dandelions. Thirty little yellow pictures of sunshine. Messer leaned down, his…
Read MoreThe return of H.R. Pufnstuf?
I am a major fan of the 1970’s Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday morning TV shows of the 1970’s. Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, all of those. And that includes H.R. Pufnstuf. If you’re too young to remember H.R. Pufnstuf, the show aired on NBC for two seasons, and…
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How to own a Super Bowl ring
They are symbols of achieving the highest and most difficult accolade in American professional football. And after battling through the regular season and defeating your opponents in the playoffs, you take victory in the most-watched televised sporting event in the world. You become a Super Bowl champion. And in doing so, you eventually receive a…
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