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Is Collarworld’s Vincent really Trey Anastasio from Phish?
Popular music is subject to interpretation.ย 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…
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A creative poem for a Sunday morning.
Read MoreThoughts while driving on the Thruway
As I navigated along the New York State Thruway last weekend, en route to dropping my photos off at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, I had time to contemplate and to think and to reflect on how my life has changed over the past few years.ย I let the non-driving-portion of my mind…
Read MoreThe library meme
Blog reader “Lazygal” (and who has a couple of her blogs linked on my blogroll) recently posted a 30-question “My home library” blog post.ย The original questions came from one location or another, and she blogged about her answers over the span of three posts – one, two, three. Since I enjoyed reading about her…
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Does lightning strike twice in ten years?
Background. Ten years ago, I won a major travel industry writing award, when my piece on C.W. McCall’s “Convoy” Top 40 hit won “Best of 2003” from the Truck Writers of North America.ย That award still hangs prominently at my place. Now we move forward to ten weeks ago, when my editor at RoadKing Magazine,…
Read MoreProtecting your rights and your copyrights
The recent storm over at the Times Union’s “On the Edge” blog has reminded me of events in my past.ย Let me elaborate. First off, last week the OTE bloggers requested that musicians in the Capital District send some music to the TU for possible inclusion into a music video.ย As you can read from…
Read MoreDon’t cry because you thought he said it. Smile because he didn’t.
Earlier this week, one of the questions in the “Catch the Mania” trivia tournament at the Ruck involved filling in the missing word or words from Dr. Seuss books.ย That was all fine and good, until the final question was asked. “Don’t cry because it ended.ย ____ because it happened.” Okay, all you Mad Libs…
Read MoreWhen you block someone on Facebook
For some, it’s an action equivalent to blasphemy.ย For others, it’s a necessary means to survival and sanity. And no matter who you do it to, you’re automatically branded as – well – a reactionary, a psychotic, a micromanager.ย Like it’s your fault that this has escalated to this point in time, and that you’ve…
Read More“Hurry Up, Tinsel!”
It’s Christmas Eve at the North Pole.ย And at the launching pad where Santa Claus has his flying sleigh parked, the elves in charge of maintaining Santa’s holiday delivery chariot are going over every last-minute detail with Santa himself. “Bangle, have you fine-tuned that sleigh runner?ย Last year there was a nasty vibration on my…
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