I’m looking up at the sky. How many stars can I see in the night? Dozens? Hundreds? A thousand upon a thousand? And if every star in the sky were the dim tears of an angel’s cries… the thought that another young soul would lose their only chance to live a full and complete life,…
Read MoreCity Lights was the greatest film ever made, and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
It was a comedy. It was romantic. It had heartbreak. And it was innovative. In 1931, silent motion pictures were all but dead, but film star / director Charlie Chaplin believed he could still make a film that did not contain spoken dialogue. And he did it. He created City Lights, a romance between a…
Read MoreA good deed done, a good deed received, and an ALCO-5
Here I am, sitting on the side of Route 9N in Corinth, waiting for a diesel-powered tourist train to arrive. Yesterday was the opening journey of the brand new Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railroad, a four-mile tourist stretch that encompasses a portion of the old Saratoga and North Creek Railroad from years past. I’ve photographed…
Read MoreKátsha’ nu: weso (where are you all going?)
I’ve renamed my photos several times. It takes a while before I’m happy with the final result. Such was the case with my December 2021 photograph of the COVID-19 memorial along the New York State Thruway. Background. In December 2021, the Oneida Indian Nation erected several illuminated tipis on Oneida land adjacent to the Thruway.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 21 2022
Every so often, I’ll add some new bloggers to the blogroll. Some of them are introduced to me through recommendations; others are friends of mine who have started (or resurrected) their own blogs. No matter how they join the blogroll, as long as they post something new between last Saturday and today, they get their…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 20, 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. I’ve got a couple of “sample examples” on tonight’s show, where “the original” song evolves into a resampled track that also becomes…
Read MoreAs Seen from Screven County
The world lost a good man yesterday. Ken Screven passed away. Screven was a longtime fixture in the Capital Region; first broadcasting on WROW radio, then moving to television as a reporter for WRGB. I’ve always felt that he was a good man, a proud man who never shied away from truth. No matter what…
Read MoreA green treat.
It looks like any normal E-ZPass transponder. But it’s green, man. It’s a green E-ZPass transponder. No, E-ZPass hasn’t come out with a line of transponders that match your car’s paint scheme. And no, I didn’t repaint my old E-ZPass with some leftover spray-on plastic dye. But this little bad boy is going to save…
Read MoreA lunar eclipse in Onondaga County.
May 15, 2022. 9:00 a.m. Camera battery is charging. Backup camera battery is already charged and tight. SD card is clean and ready for hundreds of pictures. Nikon Df camera with different super-ultra-wide lenses – my Irix 15mm and my Vivitar 19mm – packed. Double-check to make sure the manual shutter release is in the…
Read MoreI stretched it to 500 miles. Wow.
I remember the good old days. The days of trying to fill my 1991 Pontiac 6000 and barely getting 20 miles per gallon out of it. So in preparation of my plans to drive to Central New York for the upcoming lunar eclipse, I checked my gas tank. 60 miles of fuel left. And I…
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