Last week, when I returned from my excursion to photograph the steam locomotives at Pennsylvania’s Strasburg Rail Road, I went through the shots captured and pulled out two nice-looking images. They’re here. I liked both of them, I really did. But there was something on each one that, well, I could have submitted them as…
Read MoreAnd the Big E’s photo competition is open for 2021.
Well now, look what’s back. After offering a COVID-limited online photo competition (for which I snagged a best in show, yeah baby), the Eastern States Exposition, also known as the Big E, is opening up their Call for Art for the 2021 season. And that means their photo competition is active again. Holy crap, there…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 1 2021
Rabbit rabbit. I don’t know why people say this on May 1st, but if it’s something important or lucky, then I’ll do it too. Heck, if I say it enough times, it could get me a brand new Watership Down TV series. 😀 Today is Saturday, which means I step aside and showcase the blogs…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for April 30, 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 takes us back to the Boogie Down Bronx and the old school hip hop / rap that could be heard…
Read MoreHey, Najee Harris, welcome to the Steelers! Double Yoi!!
As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, last year’s season was a heartbreaker. The team starts out with an 11-0 win-loss record, and then proceeds to puke up the rest of the season – and loses a playoff game to the (scuse me, I’m going to retch) Cleveland Browns. Ugh. And then afterward, the team loses running…
Read MoreDark Side of the Ring returns next week, and man has it got some stories for Season 3.
The history of professional wrestling has evolved over time – from its early incarnations as strongman competitions in carnivals, to smoke-filled contests at arenas and armories, to its immediate acceptance in early television, to the advent of pay-per-views and whole dedicated television networks devoted to the sport. But during that history, there have been some…
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The positive change at WHCL-FM
I need to tell this story. It’s 1982, and I just finished my freshman year at Hamilton College. Hamilton had a student housing lottery at the time, which meant that rising seniors picked their dorm living situations first, then rising juniors got to choose, then there were rooms allocated for incoming freshmen, then whatever was…
Read MoreAfter ten years … do I dare enter it again?
Background. About ten years ago, I tried my luck at entering my photos at the Mohawk Hudson Regionals, one of the top art exhibitions in the area. The photos were rejected faster than a Trump supporter on a Bumble date. And when I posted a blog about the rejection, several other members of the art…
Read MoreWait, MAD Magazine had a TV pilot in the 1970’s?
I, like many of my generation, adored MAD Magazine. I enjoyed the subversive humor and parodies, the off-the-wall Don Martin cartoons, the Spy v. Spy battles from Antonio Prohias, the hilarious margin cartoons from Sergio Aragones, the Al Jaffee “fold-in” on the back cover, yeah, all of that. Now I’m aware that there were at…
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Silos, Parking and Foamers: Chuck’s taking pictures again.
6:00 a.m. Saturday morning. I’ve already loaded my car with four cameras, the tank is full of gasoline, and I’ve been studying Google Earth to the level of treasure-hunting. Well, technically, I am hunting for treasure. I want to photograph a train today. Not just any train, mind you. There is a heritage railroad in…
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