So the National Basketball League of Canada has just wrapped up its seventh regular season, and now begins its seventh postseason. Point of order – I am the director of statistics and player clearances for the NBL, so let’s get that out of the way right now. As the NBL begins its playoff run, eight…
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Liz Bishop, you broke my heart.
One of the most important aspects a television viewer can expect from his or her local news broadcasts is trust.ย Trust from the anchorpeople who will provide the viewer with the news.ย News as free from bias or slant as is possible. Over the weekend, a video clip showing the newscasters and anchorpeople at Sinclair…
Read MoreA Steven Bochco Retrospective
Steven Bochco passed away yesterday at age 74.ย For a generation of television viewers, he was a visionary in television drama.ย He experimented with new techniques and storylines, he created new aesthetics in drama, and changed the way we watched prime time television forever. Today’s blog post shows many of Bochco’s greatest television programs –…
Read MoreAPRIL FOOL’S DAY: RCA Nipper statute vandalized with pro-Trump graffiti!
You son of a bitch. I don’t know when you did this … But you should be ashamed of yourself. I drove by downtown Albany last Saturday – just taking care of some pre-Easter chores and goals – and as I drove past the Arnoff Building on Broadway, home of the big fiberglass RCA Nipper…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, March 31, 2018
Good morning everybody.ย All set for Easter?ย Are you enjoying Passover?ย Or are you just sleeping late and hoping for springtime to arrive? No matter.ย It’s all good. Because it’s Saturday, and it’s time to go through the best of my fellow bloggers and writers and podcasters and observers.ย And I hope you enjoy this…
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The GLF Embroidery Project, Part 4
So I postponed my GLF Embroidery Project for a few weeks.ย Mostly because I’ve been involved with other projects that have captured my attention of late. Okay, yeah, I procrastinated.ย Instead of getting this project done in time for Competition Season 2018, I got hooked on another burlap bag project – the Eastern States Farmers’…
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If I make one more trip to the Boreas Ponds in 2018…
For the past two years, I’ve made photography excursions to the newly-available Boreas Ponds in the Adirondack Mountains.ย Essentially you drive up to Essex County, you drive seven miles on an old logging road, then you hike another three hours to a spot where – as you can see in the photo above – you…
Read MoreHow to Decipher a Sarah Huckabee Sanders Press Conference
I swear, there are days when I watch the evening news and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing at the podium, trying to answer questions from the assembled reporters, and trying to give answers that reflect our President’s position on life, the universe and everything. And it took me a while to…
Read MoreYou want steamed hams? I got your steamed hams right here…
It seemed such an innocuous little television skit.ย Two minor characters on The Simpsons, Principal Seymour Skinner and his boss, Superintendent Chalmers, have a little three-minute storyline in an episode called “22 Short Films About Springfield.”ย In the storyline, Skinner invites Chalmers to dinner, then discovers that the dinner is burning.ย Rather than tell Chalmers…
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The Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange Art Project
I kinda kept this one quiet.ย ย Unlike other art projects, where I chronicle everything right down to the purchase of the supplies to build the item … this time, I’m just going to show you everything at once. I recently acquired a burlap sack online.ย With a little yarn and some time, I turned it…
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