So this news just popped up on one of my news feeds. The Canadian Country Music Association has awarded the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train the 2021 Gary Slaight Music Humanitarian Award, and will be honored during Country Music Week later this year in London, Ontario. Wow. Big wow and big props. Here’s a link to…
Read MoreBank of America’s $42 F-U
Credit card companies are evil. They pitch to you that they actually care about you, that they want to help you out, that they want to treat you like you’re someone important. Horseshit. Credit card companies only care about one thing. How much they can squeeze from you in fees and overages and everything else.…
Read MoreOne last stunt for Captain Explosion
In the end, Crash Moreau lived his life the way he always wanted. Whether it was on fire, or surviving a horrific car crash, he performed stunts and thrills for decades, at county fairs and stunt shows throughout the Northeast. Example. Here’s a video of him from 2011, at the Orange County Fair. And if…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 18, 2021
By the time you wake up and read this, I’ll be on the road. Plans are to drive out to Connecticut and drop off my artworks at the Durham Fair for judging; then make a detour to photograph one of the covered bridges in Connecticut (apparently they have nine of them, but only three are…
Read MoreCould you please help Pet Alliance?
This is important. Whatever you can offer to help will be tremendously appreciated. Like most animal shelters and humane societies, Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando opens up its heart and its facilities to rescue abandoned and hoarded animals, and to hopefully find them new forever homes. Last Wednesday evening, however, tragedy struck the Pet Alliance.…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for September 17, 2021
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 show features the debut of the “Bongolia Mix (Sam Pellman Version),” which combines over a dozen 1970’s-era songs into a six-minute…
Read MoreMy 2021 Durham Fair photography contest entries are…
I have to be honest. I wasn’t planning on entering Durham this year. Part of it is the cost of putting together the prints and the two trips to Connecticut – one to drop off the images, and one to bring them home after the fair is complete. But the thing is, I’ve always had…
Read MoreBongolia! (The Sam Pellman – WHCL mix)
So here’s the story. Sam Pellman was a beloved professor at Hamilton College. He taught music – electronic music, to be precise – and his studio had one of the early Moog synthesizers ever available. That’s right, we got to play on a Moog synthesizer. Also around that time, I was production director at the…
Read MoreThat’s one muscular pumpkin, son.
Last Saturday, I drove out to Syracuse to pick up my New York State Fair photos (and the three ribbons associated with same). On my way back home, I stopped at a couple of farmer’s markets and country stores for some homegrown veggies and whatnot. And in one of my favorite little “driving stops” –…
Read MoreThat Beach Boys mondegreen can get mon-de-violent.
Kurt Busiek is a very famous comic book artist. You might know him from books like Astro City and Arrowsmith; he’s one of the people that created the legendary Thunderbolts comic series (which, by the way, why aren’t the Thunderbolts in the MCU yet?). I say this, because one day, he quoted the lyrics from…
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