Long-time readers of my blog will remember the two car nicknames at the title of this blog post. Cardachrome was my 2005 Saturn Ion, the second car I ever personally owned. I had that car from 2010 to 2012, when its myriad of electrical issues convinced me it was time to get a different car. …
Read MoreTwo Chuck Miller artworks donated for an upcoming In Our Own Voices auction
Whenever I can, I will always help those in need. In the past, I’ve donated several of my artworks to various charities for auction purposes, or for outright donations to help others. This morning, two of my artworks will join a collection of art and prizes that will be auctioned off as part of an…
Read MoreThe evolution of the snake
There is an old Aesop fable, known as “The Scorpion and the Frog,” and like all of Aesop’s fables, there’s a moral somewhere in the mix. A scorpion tried to cross a river, and couldn’t – because scorpions can’t swim. A frog offers to shuttle the scorpion across the river, with the scorpion riding the…
Read MoreElbo Room’s liquor license wasn’t the only thing that bounced…
News came yesterday that the Elbo Room, that venerable dive bar on Delaware Avenue in Albany, lost their liquor license. Andrew Cuomo's administration has suspended the liquor license of the Elbo Room, which was Cuomo's favorite bar during his Albany Law School days. (Left, Cuomo press release. Right, a quote from an old @JimmyVielkind/@timesunion profile…
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Click Click Click Click Click Click….
That sound you just heard was my external hard drive – a six-terabyte storage unit that carries nearly my entire photo archive – making strange noises. This is not good. This is very not good. Over the years, I’ve dealt with hard drive and disc drive failures before. I’ve had friends and companies reconstitute the…
Read MoreFootloose on the Royale with Cheese Movie Club
Yes, I know I’ve never seen Footloose. It came out in the early 1980’s, and I never honestly had a chance or a desire to see it. Yeah, I heard all the songs from the movie on my radio, and I saw the music video with clips of the film all the time on MTV.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, August 1, 2020
Good morning and happy August to you all. It’s time for another edition of What’s Up in the Neighborhood, where I go through my personal blogroll and find the best blog posts and photos from the past week, and share them with you so that you might enjoy them as well. And we’ve got some…
Read MoreI’ve got a Dirty Pair to show you…
I do enjoy watching anime. But my initial forays into anime involved watching American-dubbed and American-edited versions of such Japanese TV shows as Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers), Mach Go Go Go (Speed Racer), and Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). So one day, back when the Thruway Inn in Albany was hosting a sci-fi convention…
Read MoreTony Goldmark dog-walks Fox News, film at 11.
I first met Tony Goldmark at, at all places, a “Weird Al” Yankovic fan convention in 2000. Yes, there are such things. Yes, I went to more than one of them. Tony at that time was a very talented song parodist, and could compose some nerdcore with the best of them. Tony has a few…
Read MoreThere are nominations. It is the way.
We live in very crazy times right now. VERY crazy times. And yesterday, I received a teensy tiny bit of normalcy in my crazy life. Somewhere along the line, the Emmy Award nominations were announced. And among all the usual nominations (Jeez, can you give the award for Best Supporting Actress Comedy to D’Arcy Carden…
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