I’ve blogged about this topic before. During the regular season, Chris Boswell scored nearly all the points in a Pittsburgh Steelers victory over Cincinnati with his right foot. Last night, however, Boswell was responsible for all 18 points the Steelers scored in their playoff victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Even when Pittsburgh couldn’t get…
Read MoreNBC’s “Emerald City” surprised me … for all the right reasons!
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about this new show on NBC that purports to take the Wizard of Oz story and update it for television. The show, Emerald City, airs on Friday nights and has an abbreviated 10-episode first season. And after watching the first three episodes, I’m thinking … RENEW THIS SHOW…
Read MoreL.L. Bean, Donald Trump, and my wallet
I enjoy shopping at L.L. Bean. Most times, I’ll just window-shop through the Colonie Center store, I’ll eyeball all the clothing and fishing and hiking accessories, and then maybe I’ll purchase a flannel shirt or two. Nothing major, but I do shop at L.L. Bean on occasion. And I had a plan for 2017. After…
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A new life for Frontier Town in 2017
You might have missed it when Governor Andrew Cuomo issued his recent “State of the State” addresses, but buried on page 102 of the adjoining “State of the State” budget report is a $32 million plan to revitalize what was once the Frontier Town amusement park into a new type of tourist attraction. The plan…
Read MoreRepairing The Switchback
One of the essences of creativity is that you have to reconstruct your ideas when you’re not happy with them. And another part of creativity is knowing when to ask for help when you can’t get something to look the way you want it to. Case in point. My 2016 multi-image shot, The Switchback. This…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, January 12 2017: Ten for Thursday
This is what happens when you can’t sleep. You wake up, you write a blog and you go back to bed. I do this on occasion. I mean, what else can you do at 2:30 in the morning? And since it’s Thursday, I figured I’d take care of this week’s blog recap of the Times…
Read MoreBarack Obama #AlwaysMyPresident
I heard the chants from the Chicago auditorium. “Four More Years! Four More Years!! Four More Years!!!” And part of me was cheering that same mantra from my couch in New York. Because I didn’t want to see Barack Obama leave the Oval Office. I didn’t. Because as far as I was concerned, he wasn’t…
Read MoreSeven months later … did the lizard and the stag finally blink?
Last summer, when my car was destroyed in a nasty highway accident, I was forced to deal with competing insurance companies for reimbursement of various out-of-pocket expenses, including a $300 car rental bill to get from North Carolina back to Albany. The vehicle in front of me – a camper whose bicycles became detached from…
Read MoreBuh-bye, Flipper … and buh-buy OBJ…
It’s a good day to be a Pittsburgh Steelers football fan. Because, let’s face it. When the Steelers lost that 30-15 game earlier this year to the Miami Dolphins, where Jay Ajayi ran all over the Black and Gold like they were the Yellow Brick Road and he was Dorothy, I’m sure that every Steeler…
Read MoreWas that a flying robot I just saw on TV?
I couldn’t sleep. This happens a lot to me of late. So I started playing Time Warner Cable Roulette and started cycling through channels I never knew existed. And lo and behold, I found a station called Comet TV. No, it’s not a station devoted to kitchen cleansers. Apparently Comet TV shows limited-run science fiction…
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