The world of pop music has been littered with potholes of plagiarism. A hundred years ago, the song “Yes! We Have No Bananas” took the melody of G.F. Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus for a Tin Pan Alley refrain. George Harrison’s song “My Sweet Lord” was found to be too close in melody and structure to the…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 4 2024
Hello to all of you on this glorious holiday. Just remember … one of the great things about Star Wars fandom is that the one character you hate in that movie will become, by the next movie or two, one of the most beloved characters. I give an example. Star Wars – “It’s a big…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 3, 2024
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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreWhew! – the game show I’m still trying to figure out
There once was a time when you could stay home from school and the three major television networks would bless your “sick day” or “hooky day” with a plethora of game shows and quiz shows. NBC gave your Hollywood Squares and Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, while CBS offered The Joker’s Wild and The Price…
Read MoreThe All In The Family episode that still stings today
All In The Family is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time – heck, I’d even argue it’s one of the greatest scripted television shows of all time. The show broke so many taboos and boundaries and sitcom norms that, even today, you can watch episodes of this classic series and go, “How in…
Read MoreIf South Park was shot as a super-wide-screen live-action Technicolor classic in Super Panavision 70…
The TV show South Park has its own distinct animation style. The whole show looks like it was animated with paper cutouts. Okay, back in the early years it WAS animated that way, even though the show today is totally computer-generated, but still … What if the show went in the OTHER direction, and we…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The sweet sounds of The Executives
For approximately three years in the late 1960’s, a five-man, one-woman rock group from Sydney, Australia became one of that country’s most popular groups – almost as popular as their contemporaries, the Seekers or the Easybeats. Let me introduce you to The Executives, led by the married couple of Brian King and Carol King. They…
Read MoreHow to repair a ribbon on a vintage Boy Scout Eagle medal
I recently posted a blog in which I captured a distressed Eagle Scout badge, along with the necessary tools to repair it. Here’s the post. It’s one thing to photograph this wrecked badge. But it’s another to actually take a moment and fix it. And the big issue now for this medal … is the…
Read MoreRocky Mountain Film Lab will take your money and never develop your film. Ever. EVER.
We have to go all the way back to 2010. I found a roll of shot film in an old Kodak camera at an antique mall. The film itself was C-22 film, which isn’t compatible with any of the film developing techniques available at the time, so I looked online for anyone who handled boutique…
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The Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railroad, the Sacandaga River, and an infrared camera
Back in November 2023, I had one of my Nikon Df cameras (my older black one) modified for infrared shooting. The company who modified the camera also sold me two special filters – a chrome filter (for replicating the Kodak EIR / Aerochrome look) and a second filter that blocks light up to 720nm (for…
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