I’ve tried not to blog about this. But I can’t resist. Tomorrow morning at about 6:25 a.m., New York will experience a lunar eclipse that will occur just before sunrise. In fact, we could be blessed with an extremely rare phenomenon. For at that time, give or take a minute or two … we could…
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Chuck The Writer celebrates an 85th anniversary
Last June, I attended my 40th college reunion. It was an adventure. Spent the weekend reminiscing with classmates, rediscovering old memories … And getting a bit of an itch. Follow along. That weekend, while waiting for one of the scheduled events, I spent the morning at the Burke Library. Did a little bit of history-diving.…
Read MoreI have no use for AI on my blog, or in my Super Bowl commercials
Okay, let’s get a few things out of the way. I would have preferred a second Bad Bunny concert to whatever crapola the Seahawks and Patriots were doing in the Super Bowl. Drake Maye looked like he was completely lost on the field. And at one point, Seattle was living on so many field goals,…
Read MoreThe Incident at Bargain Grocery
There’s a store in Troy that sells discounted groceries and food staples. It’s called Bargain Grocery, and they usually have overstocked items, “scratch and dent” items, or foods just reaching their expiration date, and need to be sold fast. You can find some great products there if you look carefully. And in doing so yesterday,…
Read MoreI’ll definitely need more than $50 for this.
I have some choices for movies this week. The Testament of Ann Lee debuts this week, and some Oscar-nominated films are getting rebroadcasts on the multiplexes. And then there’s the Melania movie. Ugh. THAT Melania. From what I understand, Amazon Studios paid $40 million to the Trump family to curry favor with the administration. They…
Read MoreThe Mike Tomlin Magic 8-Ball
I am saddened this morning. Well, it’s been 48 hours of sadness. After the Pittsburgh Steelers coughed up yet another double-digit playoff loss – their seventh consecutive postseason loss – this time, a 30-6 loss to the Texans, that was punctuated by an Aaron Rodgers fumble that Houston returned for a touchdown. Then came the…
Read More“I am a US citizen from Minneapolis.”
I’m sharing this post from Mastodon as a link (click here), and I’m also reposting this, word for word, because these words are extremely important. This is the horrifying, dehumanizing attack on our brothers and sisters. For every Renee Good who is murdered on camera by these ICE goons, there are these little-told and little-known…
Read MoreChuck’s Photo Moments of 2025
And finally, my last blog post of the year … a retrospective of my adventures with my camera gear. Shots taken both with film and with digital. Experimental and standard. Award winners and personal favorites. And all the blog posts created when I created these images. Enjoy.
Read MoreChuck’s best blog moments of 2025
It’s that time of year again. One blog post for my best photos of 2025, one blog post for the best blog moments of 2025. And let’s start with this one from January, where I planned and planned and planned for a photo capture of the sun as it peeks through the 42nd Street New…
Read MoreWait, some of the redacted Epstein files can be UNREDACTED??
This is why I love the Mastodon social media network. I’m bringing you to this website, where someone actually figured out that SOME of the Epstein files – you know, the ones that apparently contain nothing but big black horizontal lines throughout them – can possibly have those lines removed, revealing the text underneath. Follow…
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