It’s a beautiful Sunday morning, let’s check the emails, see if there’s anything of interest … advertisement … advertisement … solicitation … someone contacting me through the blog … hey wait a second… I received a “Contact Chuck Miller” from someone from way in my past. And this person referenced things in her letter to…
Read MoreThat’s not how you use an infrared filter, son…
So yesterday, I took some pictures up in the North Country – apparently my goal must be to capture the Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway train as it travels through the Adirondacks. I wanted to try an infrared shot of the train, and thankfully I had a pack of Kodak HIE infrared B&W film in…
Read MoreYou can get a very tasty Italian Cheeseburger in these Albany locations.
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Italian Cheeseburger – a sandwich that, for some reason, seems to only exist in Albany. Now there are “cheeseburger subs” or “chopped cheese” in various locales, where a burger is part of a sub sandwich (i.e., adding lettuce and tomatoes and whatnot). But I’m talking about the…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 16 2022
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Time to go through the blogroll on the right side of my blog page, and see what great photos and wonderful words have come from those writers and photographers who populate my blogroll. Hope you enjoy. BLOGS FOR TASTE Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,” “Van Dyck / Mad Jack…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 15, 2022
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 episode features a lot of great songs, with a “sample example” of how Everclear took a 1970’s Jean Knight hit and…
Read MoreYou know that “A” in AEW stands for Albany Elite Wrestling, right?
Ah, a relaxing evening watching professional wrestling. And for me, that’s All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite broadcast on TBS. Hell of a set of matches last night – Wardlow defeated Orange Cassidy in a rare face v. face match; Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee overpowered two teams to claim the AEW tag titles, AEW is bringing…
Read MoreThe Heather Kovar situation that nobody wants to talk about.
Let’s start with a disclaimer. I haven’t watched WRGB news in a very long time – ever since they were acquired by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and their on-air news reads became word-for-word recitations of Sinclair’s ultra-conservative mantra. To put this in perspective, I blogged about why I will not willingly watch WRGB news in…
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The “Golden Ticket” postcard from Iowa, 2022 Edition
I know the postcard’s coming. It just takes an extra day or two to arrive. It always does. Let me explain. The Iowa State Fair’s Photography Salon is one of five spokes of my “Competition Season” wheel of photography. Last month, I submitted these four photos to Iowa for consideration. You know … just an…
Read MoreAlexander went walkies.
During my 2022 college reunion, I took several photos around campus, including snagging this shot of the statue of Alexander Hamilton, for whom the college was named. Backstory. The college itself was formed in 1793 as the Hamilton Oneida Academy, a school that Presbyterian seminarian Samuel Kirkland hoped would educate the local indigenous peoples. The…
Read MoreThe egg that probably came from a constipated chicken
I enjoy Sunday mornings at the local farmer’s market. Fresh air, peaceful times, and 100% of what I spend goes directly to the merchants and farmers. That means all the vegetables and breads and meats came from the farmers, and my money goes right back into their pockets. In other words, I’m helping to stimulate…
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