Professional wrestling has evolved – and it continues to evolve today.ย Especially in the world of women’s professional wrestling.ย Once relegated to a subgenre of eye-candy girls in skimpy outfits barely capable of a collar-and-elbow lock-up, today’s women’s wrestling is now exciting, challenging, and just as popular on the card as men’s wrestling.ย Heck, later…
Read MoreThe Return of Santa’s Land
NOTE: This blog post is about Santaโs Land in Putney, Vermont. it is NOT about Santaโs Workshop, a theme park in the Adirondack Mountains, and no confusion should be made between the two locations. Four yearsa go, I wrote a blog post about the horrible and deplorable conditions at Santa’s Land, a Christmas-themed roadside attraction…
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The Results from Altamont, 2018 Edition
“You have to park over here, sir.” “Over here” was about a mile and a half away from the Altamont Fairgrounds campus. “How come?” I asked. “The main lot is too muddy, cars are getting stuck.ย You need to park over here in the overflow lot.” Just then, a pickup truck zipped by me on…
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My 2018 Photos in the Altamont Fair are …
Has it really been ten years? Yeah.ย Ten long years. Ten years ago, I entered my first four pictures into the Altamont Fair’s photography competition.ย Two years later, I claimed my first silks, when Midnight at the Palace Theater took second place in the black and white category; two other pictures, The AGFA Bridge Over…
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The Drive of Shame, 2018 Edition (UPDATE: ONE GOT THROUGH!!)
Good morning.ย I have to write this blog post early, because by the time you read it, I’ll be on the highway to Syracuse. Let me explain. The New York State Fair requires that all non-accepted entries for the photography competition be claimed today.ย Of the six entries I submitted for 2018, three of them…
Read MoreThe postcards finally arrived from Syracuse … and …
So six postcards arrived in my mailbox Saturday evening.ย Three from the photo discipline, three from arts and crafts. Let’s check the arts and crafts section first, shall we? The first card I checked was my Saratoga Vichy Table, a piece of furniture that was crafted from two Saratoga Vichy crates. And the piece was…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, August 11, 2018
Good morning everyone.ย Hope you’re starting your weekend off well, and here’s something to make your weekend even better – a collection of blog posts, podcasts and writings by some of my favorite bloggers, podcasters and photographers.ย Check them out and you will enjoy. And let’s start with… Robert Eaton’s “Koffeefrkeleven” blog, “Albany Gone: Lost…
Read MoreMy entries for the Big E 2018 Photo and Art Exhibition are…
So this is a different avenue for me.ย Instead of printing and bringing my entries to the Big E and having them judged right then and there, I now must submit my photography entries – limit of two pictures – online.ย With limited space in the New England Center this year, all entrants are now…
Read MoreAm I enabling a feline freeloader?
Last night, I came home after a big trivia win at Rivers Casino – I was the only one who knew the answer to the final question regarding the year the last episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show aired – 2011 – and my Rivers gift card collection is now $100 fatter. It’s pouring rain…
Read MoreThe postcards from Syracuse, 2018 edition…
I don’t want to look at them. I know they’re in the mailbox, and I don’t want to look at them. Nine postcards.ย Six for photography, three for arts and crafts. Nine postcards in my mailbox, all of whom made a long journey from the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse to my home in…
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