So this happened. The other day, I received a text message from Date Night. She had plans to take her car to the dealership for an oil change. And surprisingly, when she brought the car in for the oil change, the techs opened the hood and found … well, in addition to the car’s horsepower…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 28 2022
Hope everybody is having a fantastic morning. I am … trust me on this. The Patroons won big last night, virtually securing the #1 seed and home-court advantage in the postseason. Plus, last night’s victory was their 21st consecutive home win, only seven victories away from tying their all-time home win streak from the 1990-91…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 27, 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 broadcast memorializes and honors those who perished in senseless school shootings, from Columbine to Robb Elementary and all the ones I…
Read MoreWhat is it with Chuck Miller and shooting from the roof??
Maybe it’s just my attempting a new perspective, a new angle, a new tilt with my camera gear. Which would kind of explain why I’m precariously hanging off a roof in the Town and Village of Green Island. Let me explain. Yesterday, the Town and Village held its Memorial Day Parade, which coincided with the…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2022 Iowa State Fair Photography Competition are …
And Competition Season begins. I’m boxing up four artworks for the Iowa State Fair today, and shipping them off. I’m sending them early, just because Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster General and he’s been notoriously slowing down mail at the worst possible times. That also being said, the Iowa State Fair is very topic-specific regarding…
Read MoreThe Tears of Angels
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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