Iverhill is a small logging town in the Adirondack Mountains. The best way to reach Iverhill is to drive up the Northway until you smell sweet pine needles, then take the next exit. Iverhill is the basis for a collection of short stories and novels. I started writing the Iverhill cycle in college, as part…
Read MoreSo THAT’s what ICE sounds like in the cold.
Winter is coming like a Ned Stark meme. And I have to drive somewhere. Okay, let’s get in the Chevrolet Volt and start her up. Now normally, when I start Lightning’s Girl, I get this weird Star Trek-y sound effect that sounds like a revved-up power source. This time, however, as I started the car,…
Read MoreThanks to Elon Musk, I’ve moved to Mastodon.
It was a good eleven years with Twitter. But I’ve moved on. I could live with Elon Musk buying the company. I could hold my nose when he turned Twitter into a hate speech free-for-all. Then he unbanned Donald Trump’s Twitter account. That’s the final straw. And as much as I would LOVE to theoretically…
Read MoreAmahl and the Night Visitors – the Christmas special almost lost to time
Let’s put a few things aside. Frosty, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, the Grinch, George Bailey, Natalie Wood pulling on Kris Kringle’s beard, a bevy of movies with Lacey Chabert – the holiday season is filled with TV specials and feel-good movies. Let me introduce you to one holiday special that, in its day, was appointment television,…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 19 2022
Good morning, wonderful blog readers. Have a seat, sip your coffee, and let’s check out the Saturday recap of the blogroll. Got some good stuff here, you will not be disappointed. Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,” “Amsterdam cafe closing after marking 3rd anniversary.“ Jerry Papandrea’s “DerryX” YouTube channel, “GOBBLE, GOBBLE! Taking Down THE GOBBLER from…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 18, 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. So for tonight’s broadcast, I actually have a co-host. Well, it’s a Dalek. Trust me. Modulated voice and everything. Amazing what you…
Read More40 years later … Solid Rock and an autographed treasure.
The year was 1982. As a college student with a fresh radio spot on Hamilton College’s radio station WHCL, I penned an editorial that was later picked up by Billboard magazine. The article was read by a mobile DJ in Melbourne, Australia, who sent me a cassette tape of various Oz Rock artists that hadn’t…
Read MoreThe Chuck Miller $100 Art Sale starts NOW!
Over the years, I’m sure you’ve enjoyed the many photographs and artworks that were created – and then exhibited – through this blog post. Now you have a chance to own some of them. Go to this link, or to the page listing above, for my new sale page. I’m offering over a dozen different…
Read MoreIt snowed last night. Start up the memes now.
I woke up this morning, looked outside my window, and saw Lightning’s Girl covered in a reasonable dusting of white snow. Ugh. Winter came early. And with the arrival of winter comes all the usual Capital District winter memes and jokes. You know the ones. The ones where we see three snowflakes outside and the…
Read MoreWe Serve Wayward Strangers at the 2022 Albany Center Gallery Members’ Show
Last year, I used a pack of Efke 820 infrared film and a yellow filter (along with my Kodak Medalist II camera, “Kodak Red”) to capture this creepy shot of the old Toll Gate Ice Cream parlor in Slingerlands. And if you’re wondering why this print is named We Serve Wayward Strangers, it’s a sly…
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