Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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. We’re playing chess on the show tonight, as all the songs either reference the game of chess, or use chess as lyrics…
Read MoreIn gambling parlance, “prop bets” are wagers that go outside the norm of standard peri-mutuel wagering. The Super Bowl is full of these “prop bets” – everything from “Will the National Anthem performance run over or under 90 seconds?” Or, “Will a field goal or extra point kick hit the uprights?” (Spoiler alert – that…
Read MoreWanna see something cool? Sure you do. From 1933 to 1988, the Ford Motor Company operated a radiator manufacturing plant in the Town and Village of Green Island, New York. Every Ford vehicle manufactured during that time, from the Mustang to the Edsel, from the Lincoln Continental to the Mercury Cougar, contained a radiator that…
Read MoreI wrote this blog post a few weeks ago, and back then I thought I had seen all the insanity possible regarding Antonio Brown and his ownership of the Albany Empire. Hoo boy, was I wrong. See, in those scant few weeks since I last wrote a blog post, Antonio Brown has had issues paying…
Read MoreThree years ago, I blogged about a 1960’s Canadian medical drama, Wojeck, starring John Vernon as a crusading medical examiner in urban Toronto. Think Quincy or CSI with a Canadian accent. At the time, there were only a couple of episodes uploaded on YouTube, as well as opening credits for the show’s two seasons. The…
Read MoreI don’t shoot as much infrared film as I used to. I mean, I have some efke 820 35mm and 120 rolls in the freezer, so when I DO want to shoot it, I can. Color infrared film, however … that’s another story. The guy from Germany who had all the cool Aerochrome 120 film…
Read MoreGood morning everybody, and welcome to another great weekend. I hope everybody has exciting plans for the next few days, and I hope that those exciting plans include – of course – checking out the blog posts and photos and articles from those great people who are part of my personal blogroll. And here we…
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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. Summer’s just around the corner, so let’s have some summertime music to go with the warm weather and the beach life, shall…
Read MoreI know, I know, when I said you could take my BlackBerry phone from my cold, dead carcass, I wasn’t kidding. There’s still a tiny part of me that wishes someone actually built a 5G BlackBerry that could compete with Android and iPhones … but that never happened. And the one company that claimed to…
Read MoreYesterday’s announcement of the “Alive at 5” summer concert series in Albany’s Corning Park caught my attention – especially the notice of July 13th’s “Classic Rock Night” featuring headliners The Sweet. You remember The Sweet, don’t you? All those big hits – “Fox on the Run,” “Ballroom Blitz,” “Love is Like Oxygen,” “Little Willy,” all…
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