Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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 I took a bunch of familiar rock and pop songs, and re-processed them as “Out of Phase Stereo” editions. In “Out…
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Liz Finegan was a classmate of mine at Hamilton College. We didn’t travel in the same social circles, but I always knew her as a very nice and intelligent person. If you’re a women’s soccer fan, you would know Liz Finegan’s daughter Emily Menges, one of the top defenders in the National Women’s Soccer League…
Read MoreI knew it would arrive at some point. The Capital District has suffered from generification for decades – when the locals go crazy for the first appearance of a national chain store or restaurant at the expense of local product. I still remember the crazy-long lines along Route 7 in Latham when the first Sonic…
Read MoreI’ve really been digging my Nikon F2S camera (“Nikon Athena”) of late. It’s a great little workhorse, and the pictures it captures are as sharp as a knife. And this summer, I’ve had a bit of fun with Nikon Athena, packing it with a roll of Kodak Ektachrome E-100 and taking it for a few…
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I was on a really strong run … and then I ran out of lime strands. Again. Ran out of yarns. Nuts. But during the time when I had enough yarns to go around, I made a lot of progress on this latch hook rug. In fact, let’s do the comparison. Scrolling back and forth…
Read MoreIn 1983, one of the most important and significant ecological challenges took place in Tasmania in Australia. There were plans in place to build a hydroelectric dam along the Franklin River, which would have provided gigawatts of hydroelectric power in the area – but would have also caused immeasurable ecological damage. There were protests through…
Read MoreIt’s Labor Day weekend, so I hope everybody has a great time remembering the hard work our forefathers and union brotherhood achieved to get us the 40-hour work week and the minimum wage and health benefits. And with that in mind, let’s visit the rank and file of the bloggers and photographers in this week’s…
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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 went with a lot of early 1980’s college rock music this week, including tracks by Martha and the Muffins, R.E.M., Burning…
Read MoreI’m not sure how to react to news of this nature, so I’ll react accordingly. Apparently the Colorado State Fair’s digital art competition offered a blue ribbon to a print named “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” as credited to Jason Allen. Well, Jason Allen had a bit of help. He used a program called MidJourney, a program…
Read MoreThere’s a great hook in the Meat Loaf song “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” in which baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto calls what sounds like an imaginary baseball play – which, in itself, can be interpreted as the old baseball lingo for two horny people getting their freak on. Well, apparently people are getting their freak…
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