Last year, I participated in the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation’s Spirit of Life and Spencer Trask Memorial Restoration Campaign, as one of my Dream Windows appeared at the 2014 TRASK Art Show and Sale. This year, I decided to go in a different direction. No Dream Window this time; instead, since the theme of the…
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Lucha Underground restores my love for professional wrestling
Monday nights. Plop in front of the television. I would watch WCW Monday Nitro and WWF (now WWE) Monday Night Raw, taping one and watching the other live. You can get four, five, sometimes six hours of wrestling doing this. But many things happened after that. The death of Eddie Guerrero. The murder-suicide of Chris…
Read MoreWell, there goes my summer movie hopes…
The Disney film Tomorrowland didn’t perform as well as Disney would have hoped. Granted, it was a “tentpole” feature, but apparently there weren’t enough campers interested in it. So because of that, the House of Mouse has decided to halt production on its other futuristic movie franchise. No, not the Pirates of the Caribbean film…
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Caption time: At ease…
Nine years ago, I took this picture. That was at least three digital cameras ago; this must have been captured with my old Nikon D70. I think I caught this picture at Albany Rural Cemetery. it’s too ancient a photo to enter in competition; and I’ve actually taken better photos than that in the decade…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The horns of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
He was arguably the most successful American musician of the 1960’s. His albums with the Tijuana Brass were staples of nearly every music collection. And for today on K-Chuck Radio, I want to bring you the music of legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert. And the best way to start is with… THE LONELY BULL This was…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Surveillance
The eagle soared through the blue-white skies, his gaze affixed on the ground and the roads and the forests. He was on patrol, looking for a vicious dog that arrived in the afterlife animal waystation Collarworld months ago. The mixed-breed fighter dog known as the Demon had torn through several of the realms in Collarworld,…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, May 28, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Up and at ’em. It’s Thursday morning. We’re close to the weekend. We’re close to the end of May and the warm days of summer. It’s Thursday morning – and that means that it’s time to showcase the work of the Times Union’s community bloggers. These are the bloggers who write solely for the love…
Read MoreHalf-shots and full tries
I almost threw these away, because I wasn’t satisfied with what came out. And then, at the last moment, I fished the film out of the garbage and scanned the negatives anyway. This is a testament to never giving up, and trying to get something out of nothing. Background. What you see on the left…
Read MoreMy Spectrum 8 Theater Art Show starts Wednesday, please come and see it!
I can’t believe it’s been two years since the last time I had a solo art show. And now I’m doing it again. Starting tomorrow, and running until July 7, the Spectrum 8 theater on Delaware Avenue in Albany will host several of my art pieces in their theater lobby. The artworks, which includes the…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: For Those Who Served
Today I have a very special K-Chuck Radio, seeing as it’s Memorial Day and all. The songs in today’s blog-cast were inspired by those who have served in conflicts foreign and domestic. So as we remember those who served, and those who gave, let’s also remember them in song and in melody. Including… THE MILLS…
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