I knew something was wrong with that Facebook group. I just knew it. A few weeks ago, I joined a Facebook group of CPKC Holiday Train enthusiasts. Yes, there’s a Facebook group for that. There wasn’t much to the group – mostly questions about whether the train will pass through this town or that village,…
Read MoreRemembering Spooky
During my childhood years, when I spent summertime time in Boston with my Grandma Betty (in order to get away from my toxic home life in New York), she would reward me for good behavior with trips to various Boston-based tourist attractions and entertainment locales. Of course this included Boston’s Museum of Science. Trust me.…
Read MoreA big toe named Elise Stefanik
I only noticed the problem on Sunday. By Thursday … I was in the hospital. I shall explain. Last Sunday evening, as I was taking off my shoes and socks, I noticed what appeared to be a broken blister on my big toe. The bottom of the toe had what appeared to be a smelly…
Read MoreUpdated: What’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 18, 2023
Hi. So I’m home now after my procedure. At some point I’ll share the details, but for now I want to make sure I don’t forget to share all these great and wonderful blog posts and photos from the people on my blogroll. It’s not their fault I went in for a procedure, so they…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 18 2023
Hi. So normally, I would be writing today’s Saturday recap of great articles from the blog roll. However, due to circumstances beyond my control โ I’m currently in the hospital right now undergoing a procedure- I won’t be able to do the report until I get home.Once I get home, as soon as I am…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 17, 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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreShould I even bother getting my hopes up for this new Fantastic Four movie?
This is a tough call. A really tough call. And personally, I want this to work. But I’ve been burned before. I was burned in 2005, when the first big-budget Fantastic Four movie hit theaters. This was going to be the big one. This was going to take the greatest superhero family from the comic…
Read MoreCan I get a Buena Vista Panorama in Woodstock, Vermont?
Last month, I traveled to Vermont to photograph the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock. The Middle Covered Bridge is right in the heart of Woodstock’s downtown historic district, and my plan is to capture the bridge, along with a quaint New England-style clapboard house in a super-long panorama. As you can imagine, I’m having fun…
Read MoreThirty equine angels in Tioga
I understand if you’ve never heard of Da Boogie Man. He was a harness horse who raced a few times at Saratoga – I always thought he had a cool name, and was more than willing to put a few dollars on him. In his career, Da Boogie Man raced 45 times, and scattered 11…
Read MoreCount every Hallelujah.
There was an old adage among 1950’s-era comic book horror writers. Stories that would normally populate in magazines like Tales from the Crypt would follow the mantra of, “You sharpen the pencils, the pencils sharpen you.” It’s a formula that if you do something bad at the start of the story, something associated with that…
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