So before I go through this recap of the wonderful bloggers and photographers and storytellers that are part of my blog’s blogroll, I want to explain to my new blog readers how this Saturday recap came into existence. About seven years ago, when I was blogging for the Albany Times Union, the TU had this…
Read MoreStar Trek: Lower Decks? Set phasers to obliterate.
Of late, there have been several attempts to invigorate the Star Trek television universe. There’s the series Star Trek: Discovery, which has its good moments and its bad moments; there’s the Star Trek: Short Treks anthology series, where Trek-related stories are provided in 10-minute snippets; and there’s Star Trek: Picard, which makes me worry every…
Read MoreSo I did Dark Side of the Rainbow last night…
I really have to hand it to the Jericho Drive-In. They’ve been able to rise above this godawful pandemic and make a movie season worth enjoying. It seems like each night, there’s something special happening at the Glenmont ozone movie palace. They’ve hosted a dozen high school graduations, they’ve hosted a wedding (which was later…
Read MoreIvanka Trump is no soy bueno
Recently, the owner of the Goya Foods company expressed, at a Presidential press conference, his support for Donald Trump. The moment he did that, people stopped buying Goya Foods. There were competing hashtags of #boycottgoya and #buygoya, with other people going into the stores, buying nothing but Goya foods and spices, and then donating the…
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So I am now an official Funko Pop collector…
When the Australian bushfires tore through the Great Southern Land, and the world watched as billions of animals and millions of acres of land were burned to a crisp, the heroes of that time were the Australian firefighters, the ones that did whatever they could to stem back the life-destroying infernos. Think about this. This…
Read MoreThe monitor “sparked” at 2:00 A.M.
I can’t sleep. I just can’t sleep. Okay, maybe I can get up, write my blog post, putter around on social media, all that. I check my desktop computer. Monitor’s dark. No problem, I’ll wiggle my mouse, the screen saver should activate in three … two … two … two … Well, that’s not good.…
Read MoreA rock concert of 1,000 performers
I haven’t had a great few days of late. Maybe I’ll blog about the crises, maybe I won’t. But for now, I need some eyebleach. Sonic eyebleach, to be more precise. And that sonic eyebleach comes from a very unlikely source. A rock concert. In 2019, organizers in Paris held a massive stadium concert that…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 11 2020
Good morning everybody. Sorry I’m late, I overslept. Yeah, it’s Saturday, I’m allowed to oversleep. But what I’m not allowed to do is forget to compile my list of blogs and blog posts that populate my blogroll. You need to check these out and see what’s going on. What are you waiting for, a starter’s…
Read MoreAnd my last hope for Competition Season just went plop.
I get it. I get it. COVID-19 is breaking everything. And my last possible hope for something to come out of Competition Season this year has just been dashed. I submitted several digital photos to the Washington State Fair, in the hopes that COVID-19 had finally floated away from that state. No dice. They just…
Read MoreI see your Lady A, and your other Lady A, and raise you a Lady A.
All right, everybody follow along. Once upon a time, there was a blues singer named Anita White, who for the past twenty years has fronted her own blues band, and has performed on stage under the name “Lady A.” Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a country trio who called themselves Lady Antebellum……
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