I’ve participated in Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction for the past fifteen years. The sales of several of my photos and artworks have helped preserve distressed buildings and architecture in the Albany area, and for that I am happy. This year, two of my artworks – one photograph, one collage – will join the…
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In Tennessee, you can be arrested for driving while sober.
I’m sure you know the classic trope. You’re driving down a Southern country road, when suddenly, out of nowhere, you see flashing lights in your rearview. Local “county mountie” is behind you. You pull over to the side. Policeman lumbers out of the vehicle, asks for your license, your registration and your insurance. You hand…
Read More“Food Insecurity” is a nice way to say “starvation.”
You’ve heard the term “food insecurity.” It’s a phrase that references the inability to purchase quality, healthy foods due to several factors – the unavailability of nearby grocery stores or supermarkets (also creating a “food desert”); the rising cost of nearly everything (ground beef is nearly twice per pound what I paid for it last…
Read MoreMy thoughts on Charlie Kirk
This will be the first, last, and only time I blog about Charlie Kirk. I blocked him years ago on social media when his abhorrent and vulgar opinions chugged through the algorithms and populated my feed. I didn’t need that kind of bilge in my life. I didn’t need his misogynistic thoughts on women, or…
Read MoreThe 29-day deployment: How Donald Trump fucks over the National Guard
Donald Trump is a cheapskate. Plain and simple. Well, he’s about fifteen other things – a rapist, a con man, a racist, for starters – but most know him as someone who would find any way to underpay his contractors, while at the same time overcharging anyone who needs HIS buildings or services. Case in…
Read MoreMy blog is now officially old enough to drive a car.
Although I wrote a few proto-blogs back in the mid-2000’s, mostly on the blogspot.com portal, this blog’s official birthdate is August 25, 2009. That was the first time my blog appeared in the Albany Times Union’s blogfarm. That lasted until 2017, when I migrated the blog to an independent platform. And from August 25, 2009…
Read MoreThe Locker
It’s 1978, and I’m a sophomore at Abington High School in Abington, Massachusetts (School #11 of The Twelve). I’m living with my father and his third wife in their home I’ve derisively called The Chestnut Prison. I only stayed at Abington High for about four months, before my living situation got so toxic I had…
Read MoreThe mislabeled energy drink that could give you a DUI … or worse.
Let’s put the cans on the table right now. I am a major fan of Sugar Free Red Bull. It wakes me up and it keeps me going. And if given the choice between the various flavors and the original sugar free compound, I’ll drink the regular formula, as those other flavors just don’t work…
Read MoreI am the man on Fifth Avenue.
With the passage of H.R. 1, colloquially known as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” I now know how I will die. I will die because the hospitals that take care of me either won’t exist any more, or they’ll charge me so much money that I cannot afford to seek medical care. I will die…
Read MoreA Tesla’s miles are shorter than most car’s miles.
Correct me if I’m wrong on this. If I drive ten miles from Point A to Point B, the odometer on my car should advance … ten miles. Correct? Good. Now try driving that same ten miles in a Tesla. And now your odometer says … 25 miles driven?? That’s the argument behind this California…
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