Each Saturday morning, when I do these blog recaps – I share the posts of my fellow writers and photographers and thinkers from my blogroll – I split the blogs into different categories, based on their subject matter and content. Blogs for Taste, for example, would contain food blogs and recipes, while Blogs for Conscience…
Read More“Dad jokes” in the time of COVID-19
One of my friends, who writes blogs under the name Lazygal, has been sending “dad jokes” to all her friends. Each morning, I could log into my e-mail account, and there’s a corny but clean dose of humor. I don’t know if she’s getting them from a site or if she’s composing them herself, I…
Read MoreRestoring Her Stolen Heart
Every so often, when I take photos, I use a model or models for my photos. I pay the model (as photographers should), I pay in cash (another plus), and if I plan on entering the photo in competition, I request that the model sign a model’s waiver. Of course, I also make sure the…
Read MoreSo … will there BE a New York State Fair this year?
Background. The New York State Fair is held in late August, and runs to Labor Day. I’ve entered the photography competition at the Fair for the past 11 years, and even though there was a slow, fallow period between 2014 and 2018 for me (with the exception of 2015, there were no ribbons or showings),…
Read MoreTennessee Tuxedo and educational TV in the 1960’s
There was once a time, way back in the 1960’s, when kids would get up at the crack of dawn on Saturday mornings, pour themselves an extra-sized bowl of Frosted Flakes or Froot Loops, go in the living room, and plop in front of the television for a good five or six hours. Parents could…
Read MoreCould that empty Diet Coke can be worth lots of money?
A few days ago, I received my grocery deliveries. As I was running low on soda, I ordered three 12-packs of soda – Diet Coke, Fresca and Orange Vanilla Coke Zero. The next day, I reached in the fridge, pulled out a can of Diet Coke … and … Wait, this can feels a bit…
Read MoreHow the Cowsills almost became the Partridge Family
At one point in time, you’ve probably heard the Cowsills on your oldies radio station. They were a fresh-scrubbed, clean-cut family from Rhode Island who eventually broke through with a series of “sunshine pop” hits. Of course you know one of their biggest songs, “The Rain, The Park, and Other Things,” don’t you? And you…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, April 25 2020
Even through our isolation and sequester and quarantine, we should still have some things that remain constant. And for me, that includes the weekly recap of the great blog posts from my personal blogroll. Wanna read and find out? Sure you do! BLOGS FOR TASTE Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins” blog, “Pssst! Schenectady Greenmarket to…
Read MoreEverybody sing along! ♪ We all live in a yellow submarine … ♪
Every so often, the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine will make an appearance in one form or another. It’ll be on the big screen for an anniversary showing, it’ll be released on DVD or Blu-Ray for a special commemorative sale, and then it will eventually return to the Apple vault. Yellow Submarine is a fantastic animated…
Read MoreWait, Gordon Ramsay can swear like George Carlin?
During my self-imposed quarantine / sequester / whatever the hell we’re calling COVID-19 avoidance these days, I’ve been streaming through a lot of different television options on my Apple TV service. One of these options is the Tubi channel, which has a mixture of TV shows, movies and documentaries. Some of the offerings are worth…
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