One final season. One last episodic run through the crazy lives of the most over-the-top, couldn’t-believe-it-if-I-tried reality TV show of all time. Yep… it’s time for the final season of Amish Mafia, which will premiere its last episodes on Tuesday, February 10 on the Discovery Channel. Now for anybody who’s unaware of this little program,…
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Best of our TU Community Bloggers, January 22, 2015: Ten for Thursday
So what can I say about this week’s collection of community blogging? There’s some great stuff here. Honestly. And you need to read it. So what are you waiting for? Anyway… this week’s batch of fantastic fun from the independent blogging community of the Times Union include: Rev. Sam Trumbore’s blog, “Satire and Faith.“ Assemblyman…
Read MoreYes, the Cohoes Falls are that cold right now…
This is what happens when I get bored. In my cabinet of leftover film stock is a roll of Kodak Plus-X 125 black and white film. I have no idea what its expiration date is. I don’t even remember where or when I acquired it. No matter. I’ve been funneling a lot of leftover 35mm…
Read MoreIt’s still cold at Hoffman’s Playland…
Remember back in the day when you had a camera full of film and you had to “finish off the roll,” take a few pictures here and there so that you could have the film developed? I did that yesterday. Background. On my way home from Dutchess County a week or two ago, I took…
Read MoreJust packed up Cassaundra’s Christmas gift…
Yes I know how to use a calendar. Yes I know that the holiday happened last month. Yes the headline is correct… However… I gotta explain. In December, I saw the WMHT “Memories of Hoffman’s Playland” documentary. And man it was good. Really, really good. So I figured I’d get my daughter Cassaundra a copy…
Read MoreThe $10 gouge from Allstate
It was a nice day yesterday. I took some pictures of the frozen Cohoes Falls with my Russian ultrawide camera, I won $45 by picking the superfecta in the first race at Laurel Park (it kinda helped that one of the horses I didn’t bet on tossed his rider and was DQ’d), and other things…
Read MoreWhat I believe.
I have absolutely no idea why people delight in asking me these types of questions. Let’s start with the basics and the history. I was born into, for all that it means, a family with two religions. My father and his side of the family were Jewish (Conservative Jew, to be more precise); my mother…
Read MoreThe Instamatic Railroad
This might be the most avant-garde attempt at a photographic discipline that I’ve ever tried. EVER. I’m using a Russian panoramic camera and 25-year-old expired film. And a whole lot of prayer. And it all comes down to a little discovery I made regarding my photographic projects. Recently, I acquired a Krasnogorsk ФT-2 panoramic camera,…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, January 15, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Hey there. It’s Thursday. And you know what that means, right? Is it one day past Hump Day and more colloquially known as Friday Eve? Yeah, technically… But it’s also time to find ten stalwart postings by ten quality Times Union community bloggers. These are the people who write without compromise. They write what is…
Read MoreRecomposing my “Mail Pouch Tobacco” photo
God, how long ago did I take this picture? I think I was still writing for my old blogspot.com blog. Well, in any case… I’m always fascinated by vintage advertisements on the sides of buildings. “Ghost signs,” faded brickart, that kind of thing. It’s kinda cool to see an advertisement that has outlived its product.…
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