What’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 14, 2020

I don’t know about you, but it’s definitely been one heckuva week. And the only way to make the weekend start nice, is to recap the blog posts and podcasts and video logs of the people on my blogroll sidebar. So let’s do that, shall we? BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN Silvia Lilly in the DelSo…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 13, 2020

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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode features the top 10 songs that were played on WHCL from the week of October 24, 1984. Time Artist Song…

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The long, strange trip.

Last year, I captured an image of a worn-out 1974 VW Super Beetle in Old Forge, New York. it wasn’t just any vintage Volkswagen; it was owned by some Deadheads, who decorated the car with Grateful Dead imagery. I took several photos with various cameras, thanked the owners, won an blue at Durham in 2019…

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Bachelor Cooking: Potato and Carrot Latkes

Background.  I was a product of a mixture of two different religious faiths.  My mother’s side of the family were staunch Roman Catholics; my father’s side of the family were Conservative Jews.  In other words, I’m a mutt. That being said, there are plenty of wonderful meals that little old me can cook for myself…

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The first rule of sock-puppetry. Remember who’s the sock puppet.

Dean Browning is the former Lehigh County (PA) Commissioner and an ardent Trumpian. He also uses Twitter. And in using Twitter, someone recently posted a response to his Twitter account that, well, might seem a bit weird. Wait. Dean Browning’s a black gay guy? With that Twitter photo? No. What Dean Browning’s been doing is…

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Winterize, winterize, let no little leak evade your eyes…

There are several things that I love about my car. It’s a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze, it’s nicknamed “Dracourage” as a portmanteau of “dragon” and “courage,” it gets great gas mileage, it’s dependable, and it does exactly what I need it to do. But there’s one thing about Dracourage that always concerns me. Wintertime. In the…

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Vaccines do NOT have microchips in them. Stop saying that they do.

Do you know what vaccines do? They cure diseases. They eliminate viruses. Without vaccines, we would still deal with polio and smallpox. It is a vaccine that, somewhere down the road, will protect us from COVID-19. But there are people who still think that vaccines are bad. That vaccines cause autism. Or that a vaccine…

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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 7 2020

Oh, man, is it morning already? Looked out the window. Bright sun in my eyes. Yep. It’s morning. Daylight saving time is over. Blog-writing time is upon us. So let’s go through the blogs on my personal blogroll and see what great articles my fellow bloggers and photographers have created, shall we? Starting with ……

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