Winsor McCay was an incredible comic strip artist. His detailed creations and wide-scoping stories are still studied and adored to this day. If he did nothing else in his career, his creation of the sleeping imagination of Little Nemo in Slumberland would cement his legacy. Well, the thing is … Winsor McCay was also a…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 18 2023
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Hope you’re comfortable and enjoying your Saturday. And as this is Saturday, let’s go through the blogroll recap and see what my fellow bloggers and photographers and thinkers are up to today, shall we? Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,” “Cider Belly Doughnuts closes original Albany site.“ The Albany history…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 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. Tonight’s show is way cool – all the songs this week contain alternate time signatures, where the 4/4 measure isn’t the predominant…
Read MoreThe Tubi commercial that showed a red flag.
It was a simple 15-second commercial for Tubi, the free ad-supported streaming service. That’s all it was. And it was actually a pretty sneaky commercial – for about a second, until you realize, oh wait, it’s just a commercial, ha ha, got me good, April Fool’s in February. Here’s the commercial. Now to put the…
Read MoreMatt McKee is a transphobe and a bigot. Film at 11:00.
Matt McKee is an Arkansas state senator. And that’s probably the nicest thing I can say about him. See, a few days ago, McKee was part of a state senate hearing regarding a state bill that involved gender-affirming care for minors, and whether doctors can be sued for providing gender-affirming medications to children. Among the…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: the simplest way to make mashed potatoes from scratch
Last Sunday, while running errands, I stopped at the Honest Weight Co-Op for some supplies. While my car charged in their free car-charging station (yay for Lightning’s Girl!), I purchased some fruits, some vegetables, a nice New York strip steak filet, and some various potatoes – Yukon Golds, common reds, and Adirondack blues. And last…
Read More“The Eagles would have won the Super Bowl, if Mike Pence had done the right thing.”
Man, oh man, it’s gotten to the point where people start whining about everything in a Super Bowl. Or they’re looking for trains that aren’t even on the schedule. Case in point. Lauren Boebert groused about Sheryl Lee Ralph’s powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” because Boebert had a problem with what she…
Read MoreSo that’s what custom car mats look like.
So the mats finally arrived. Background. A month or so ago, I cashed in a ton of GM loyalty points on a set of branded floor mats. They would replace the stock rubber floor mats in my Chevrolet Volt, and would make my car look even nicer. It just took a while for them to…
Read MoreThe Results of Trivia Bowl XVIII.
The final question involved the category of “Up in Smoke.” My Street Academy trivia team had 125 points, tied for 10th place among 30 different teams. We were 17 points away from the lead, but needed a lot of luck to claim the big prize. We went all in. “In what year did Colorado and…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 11 2023.
I’ve got a lot of chores this morning. My framed artwork We Serve Wayward Strangers has to be shipped to the downstate gallery in time for the piece’s appearance at the gallery’s photo exhibition. I’ve also got Trivia Bowl XVIII this afternoon, so preparations must be made for that. Oh yeah, and at some point…
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