Hi everybody, and welcome to my blog’s Saturday blogroll recap. For those of you who have just discovered this blog (which has been around in various iterations since 2009), on Saturdays I take a break from sharing my thoughts, and instead share the thoughts of my friends on my personal blogroll. I hope you enjoy…
Read MoreThe NY Phoenix draw first blood in the Route 5 Rivalry, beating Albany 129-113
What a contest. With a capacity crowd of 1400 jammed into Armory Studios NY, the New York Phoenix took the first victory in the Route 5 Rivalry, as three members of the Schenectady crew – Shadell Millinghaus, AJ Mosby and Paul Parks – scored 20+ points in a 129-113 win over the Albany Patroons. The…
Read MoreThe Route 5 Rivalry begins TONIGHT for the Albany Patroons and NY Phoenix!
The Albany Patroons are 3-0 on this young TBL season, having claimed victories in their three home games, to remain tied atop the TBL’s North Atlantic division. At the same time, the New York Phoenix, the expansion team in Schenectady with a ton of Albany Patroons heritage and legacy, has jumped out to a 2-0…
Read MoreLe’Veon Bell is dead to me. (Trigger Warning: CSAM)
Let’s make something very, very clear. Just because you can throw a football, or catch a football, or run with a football, does not mean that you are or are not a person of quality. The Pittsburgh Steelers had a quarterback for twenty years; and although he guided the Steelers to three Super Bowls and…
Read MoreI bet Karen Parker of Schenectady, New York wished she NEVER filmed that commercial …
You gotta love the YouTube algorithm. Thanks to it, I’ve had a bit of a deep dive into classic television commercials, including a series of ads for a 1980’s-era diet supplement. And in this commercial, several svelte, easy-on-the-eyes women offer their own personal testimonials about losing a lot of weight with a specific diet caramel…
Read MoreAll right, choose your weapons. Toilet plungers at 10 paces!
At one point in time,ESPN aired a series of competitive matches involving timber sports. Competitors were challenged with chainsawing logs, rolling logs in water with their feet, and everything short of singing “I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay.” It was a fun little diversion, and I have to say that the program itself was quite…
Read MoreTwo more big wins for the Albany Patroons this week, now 3-0!
You never look past your opponents. I know that the Albany Patroons faithful have Thursday, March 13 on their calendars as “The Big Game,” when Albany faces the New York Phoenix in the “Route 5 Rivalry” game. But first, the Pats have to get past two other TBL opponents; a Friday night contest against the…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 8, 2025
Remember everyone, tomorrow begins Daylight Saving Time. So what does that mean? Well, you don’t have to reset your cell phone, that will happen automatically. Pull out your vehicle operations manual to change the clock on your car dashboard. And as for the clock on your microwave … leave it alone, it’ll be fine in…
Read MoreThe “I Am Canadian” commercial returns!
In 2000, prior to the Stanley Cup playoffs that year, Molson Beer produced this one-minute commercial, in which a man named “Joe” – actually Canadian comedian Jeff Douglas – extols the virtues of life in the Great White North. No, it’s not all Dudley Do-Right and Bob & Doug McKenzie and people spelling Canada as…
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Redscale Shooting in the Pentacon Six TL
After I had it tuned and cleaned and buffed and waxed by my camera tech Allan at CameraWorks in Waterford, my new-to-me Pentacon Six TL – which at this moment does NOT have a nickname – is ready for its first roll of post-tune-up film. And for this test run, I’ve packed a spool of…
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