I’ve seen many things at horse racing tracks. I’ve seen a horse buck his rider and keep on racing with the rest of the thoroughbreds. I’ve heard of horses with silly names like Bofa Deez Nutz and Hoof Hearted. But this story takes the cake. And we have to go to West Virginia, to a…
Read MoreWow, Spectrum … just straight-up wow.
It’s time for a little normalcy in my world. Not much normalcy, but I’ll take what I can get. The National Football League has games scheduled. Sunday afternoon contests. And if nothing else, I can sit and watch several games at once by putting my television on the NFL RedZone channel, a channel I’ve subscribed…
Read MoreResults from the 42nd Annual Photo Regionals
It’s Saturday afternoon, and I just received an e-mail from Albany Center Gallery. I can feel my heart pounding right now. It’s been three years since my neon dancing artwork Step and Pivot made the cut for the then-39th edition of the prestigious Capital District Photo Regionals. And through all the craziness that’s gone on…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 12 2020
Hey there everybody, you know what time it is, it’s time to check out the latest blog posts, articles, photographs and musings from those wonderful people over at my personal blogroll. You know, that list of links that runs down the right side of my blog page. Yes, that one. These are the kinds of…
Read MoreThe Flight Pins
Every year, around the first week of September, I look for the flight pins. They’re somewhere. But I can’t immediately find them. Eventually, by September 8th, I find them. Both safe. Both ready to wear. One pin is an old United Airlines souvenir “junior pilot” pin. The other is a gold-colored American Airlines “junior stewardess”…
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A little trip to the Yamaguchie to Support the USPS
Back in 1963, the U.S. Postal Service debuted a brand new mascot – a stylized drawing of a letter carrier, a mascot named “Mr. Zip.” Although you don’t see Mr. Zip that often today, he’s still associated with the U.S. Postal Service. But, unfortunately, the Postal Service has been under attack by Donald Trump throughout…
Read MoreThe Return of the Playlists
During my college radio years – the early college radio years, from 1981 to 1985 – we had a strict rule. Whatever a DJ played on the air had to be written down on a special sheet of paper. This was your playlist. It didn’t matter if you played ten Beatles records in a row,…
Read MoreCome on, 2020, don’t take The Venture Bros. away, too…
I saw the tweet from series co-creator Jackson Publick, and it caught me with a punch in the guts. Unfortunately, it’s true: #VentureBros has been canceled. We got the highly disappointing news a few months ago, while we were writing what would have been season 8. We thank you, our amazing fans, for 17 years…
Read MoreWell, it’s official. The show continues.
So over the summer, I’ve remotely returned to my old college radio station, WHCL 88.7 FM in Hamilton College. I did a one-hour broadcast of my old “Nightowl Radio Show,” a mixture of popular and eclectic music. It was fun, it was entertaining, it was a chance to be part of one of the few…
Read MoreWait, now I get a new Goanna LP? Did I die and go to heaven??
Last Friday, I blogged about a brand new single from the Oz rock band Midnight Oil, a song called “Gadigal Land” that is a real ass-kicker of a track. Today, I found out that another of my favorite 80’s Oz rock bands – the folk-rock collective Goanna – has a new release as well. Goanna’s…
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