“Did you hear about Sugar?” the text message read. At that moment … I knew what that message could mean. I responded back. “Please don’t tell me he died.” Even though I feared the answer. But it was true. Micheal Ray Richardson, former NBA superstar who went from legend to drug addict to recovery to…
Read MoreAnd your new regular trivia host … Chuck Miller!
In 2024, I “retired” from the competitive team trivia community. After fifteen years of answering questions about every imaginable topic (and getting most of them correct), I felt that my playing time had run its course. Then, last July, one of my friends asked if I would consider being a substitute host for him; he…
Read MoreThe Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 10, 2025
I don’t know about you … but I feel like I’m moving faster and faster on this project. I sit down after dinner, grab the canvas, and start hooking. I take a Saturday morning, go run my morning errands, come back home, and start hooking. I mean, this was where I was last week at…
Read MoreThe Results of BUILT 2025
I’ve entered Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction for the past fifteen years. The artwork sales help preserve local Albany architecture and history, as part of the mission statement from Historic Albany Foundation. And this year, I entered two artworks. One photograph and one mixed-media collage. Time to check out how things look. This year’s…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 8 2025
Good morning early birds, time to get those worms. Or at least that’s what my Alexa app tells me each day. So there’s that. How about we get straight into the blogroll recap and see what our fellow writers and bloggers and photographers and podcasters are doing this week? Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreThe Return of Operation Toy Train
There are holiday traditions that raise our spirits and prove to us that we can be kind and supportive to our neighbors and strangers. This is one such tradition. Ten national heritage and tourist railroads, including the local Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railway, will once more participate in the “Operation Toy Train” charity fundraiser. Each…
Read MoreGold and Blue
So I’m still experimenting with my Pentacon Six TL camera and my multitude of five interchangeable lenses. And since there was still fall foliage about in the neighborhood, I wanted to try something. I placed my Zodiak 180-degree fisheye lens on the Pentacon, loaded the camera with some Kodak Portra 400 film, and wanted to…
Read MoreCaption Time: The Ugliest Car in the World
If you see that headline, you’ve already imagined which car would fit that description. And you’d be correct. But let’s take this even further. Because someone took the ugliest car in the world, gave it a vinyl wrap, and … well … I saw this yesterday on my way home. Give me a good caption…
Read MoreWhere are the eight great nitro-burning funny cars??
I swear I’m not hallucinating this. As a kid, I used to listen to the local radio Top 40 radio stations in the area – 980 AM WTRY (they had American Top 40 on Sundays, which was a plus) and 1540 AM WPTR (which had a range that could be picked up whether I lived…
Read MoreThe Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of November 3, 2025
This is crazy. I started this rug project – a recreation of a photo I took of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont – last year around this time. I dibbed and dabbed at it, and halfway through the project I put it aside, causing me to miss the deadline for completing it and…
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