It’s Sunday morning, around 8:30 a.m. I’m in Glenmont. The temperature is dropping. I can feel the chills in my bones. I have my experimental camera equipment, my experimental film mixture, and I’m shooting in an experimental location. Design the hypothesis, make it work from there. And whatever doesn’t work, then I need to re-adjust…
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Could the Albany Patroons get one more NBA call-up?
You probably don’t remember the 2008-2009 Albany Patroons basketball season. Suffice it to say that the creation of the Penn Central Railroad wasn’t the biggest trainwreck in recent times. But the Patroons could still make an impact in the 2014-15 NBA season. Yes they could. Follow me. In the 2008-2009 CBA entry draft, the Patroons…
Read MoreCaption Time: That squirrel isn’t sleeping…
I was testing out a roll of film in Menands the other day, when I came across this little moment in time. So I’m going to let you put the caption together for this moment. What’s your best caption for this image?
Read MoreRest in peace, Glen A. Larson
Back in the days when your prime time entertainment choices were ABC, NBC, CBS or public broadcasting, you could always count count on some great prime time escapist television. And if I were to mention the names of some of those producers, you could immediately recall their television resumes. Let’s take a test. Quinn Martin. …
Read More2,500 and change
I wanted to mark my 2,500th Times Union blog post with some sort of commemorative notice. Some sort of, “Hey, I’ve reached 2,500 unique Times Union blog posts, and here’s how many of them were K-Chuck Radios, and how many of them were Collarworld chapters, and how many of them were old Elbo Room trivia…
Read MoreWhen we last left our “Amish Mafia” crew…
Just for the record, there are new episodes of Amish Mafia, the trashiest, most offensive faux-reality TV series ever filmed, beginning in January. Yep, this show has now reached the level of “nothing can kill it.” In a nuclear explosion, Amish Mafia would survive, along with Twinkies, Keith Richards and cockroaches. And it’s kinda ironic……
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, November 13, 2014: Ten for Thursday
What if I told you that in addition to the Times Union’s paid staff bloggers, there are dozens of community bloggers who selflessly give their time and talent and observations on life and on the world, just to make your reading experience a little better every day? And although the TU promotes the bejeebers out…
Read MoreYou’re under surveillance…
In order to use my film cameras, I have to find a suitable supply of – you guessed it – film. 35mm film? No problem. I can feed my Nikon F100 and Nikon EM cameras all day on 35mm film. I can get 120 film for my Rollei, and I can respool it onto 620…
Read MoreIs Collarworld’s Vincent really Trey Anastasio from Phish?
Popular music is subject to interpretation. Heck, you could use lyrics and album art to find clues that Paul McCartney is dead and Elvis Presley is alive. And somehow, without my knowledge, apparently one of my Collarworld chapters has found interpretations far beyond what I could ever imagine. Background. A few weeks ago, I wrote…
Read MoreVanguard saves the day!
I could sit here and use this blog as a place to vent my frustrations with corporate America. Yeah, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, I’m talking to you. But I’m not talking to you today. Because today I want to talk about some decent customer service. And it comes from Vanguard, the company that manufactures my…
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