Last week, I drove to Crossgates Mall to watch Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Of the five Indiana Jones films, I’d put this at #3 on the list – below Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and above Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and way…
Read MoreA little yellow postcard from Des Moines, 2023 Edition
The fact that I’m even GETTING a postcard from Iowa – after all I went through to get my entries judged – is a miracle. Of the five competitions in which I participate, the Iowa and New York State Fairs offer the “postcards of doom,” my nomenclature for if my photo entries were accepted or…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 8 2023
Good morning, blog readers. Sorry for the lateness of today’s post, I’ve got a lot of chores to take care of this afternoon and I tried to take care of some of them earlier this morning. Silly me. 😀 But this is not a chore. This is an enjoyment, to be able to share the…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 7, 2023
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show is a special themed broadcast, featuring some of the worst and most egregious examples of songs featuring faux Native American…
Read MoreMy 2023 Empire State Plaza 4th of July fireworks (in 3-D) (Second Try)
Let’s see. It was 90 degrees in the shade on Tuesday night. The Empire State Plaza was packed with thousands of celebratory Capital District residents, all of whom were enjoying food and drink, and getting ready for Sheila E. and the fireworks show. Or the fireworks show with Sheila E., depending on your perspective. Mother…
Read MoreThe Empire State Plaza fireworks, 2023 edition (in 3D)
Every year I try to find a new way to photograph the Empire State Plaza’s 4th of July fireworks celebration. I’ve shot it from the parking garage on Eagle Street, I’ve captured images from the roof of the Kenmore Hotel. North side of the Plaza? Got it South side of the Plaza? Got it. I’ve…
Read MoreA covered bridge shot at Powerscourt
I’m planning on making a set of covered bridge View-Master reels, just for the hell of it. I already have one image of the seven I’ll need for this project (the Paper Mill Covered Bridge in Vermont), and I’d like to add six more to this set. On Monday, I took my Nikon Df dual…
Read MoreExcelsior Pass: 2021-2023
In 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I added an app to my cell phone that would automatically provide my vaccination status if needed or requested. For example, if you want to attend a concert and need to show your vaccination status, all you do is whip out your cell phone, press the…
Read MoreNo, I have NEVER put corporations on blast …
One of my friends recently dealt with a contact lens company – and not in a good way. He complained that the contact lens company took over two months to finally tell him they couldn’t make his contact lenses. And he wrote on social media, “Should I blog about this?” Oh, I don’t know ……
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 1, 2023
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian readers out there. Let us all celebrate the heritage of Canada by eating a bowl of poutine, buying something with Canadian Tire money (the real stable currency of Canada), and breathing in that exported Canadian wildfire smoke. Damn, I woke up this morning and it felt like the…
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