Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
When your first name is one of the most common Anglo-Saxon names out there, and your last name is one of the ten most common surnames in America, there’s bound to be a few more Chuck Millers out there than one would expect. There’s a professional riding lawn mower racer with that name; there’s a…
Read MoreThis is the God’s honest truth. It’s around maybe 1989, and I’m at a comic book / science fiction fantasy convention at the Thruway Inn in Albany. I’m going through the comic books, I’m flipping through the hand-labeled VHS bootleg tapes, looking for something new and exciting and interesting. “Can I help you?” a woman…
Read MoreI’m not going to say anything about this picture, other than it was taken by Sharon Rippey at Hamilton College during my reunion. However, I’m more than willing to put myself on the line for a Caption Time blog post. I’ll let you all have fun with this one, just please keep the comments within…
Read MoreOne of my Hamilton College classmates, Carol Bash, spent the past twelve years crafting and building an excellent documentary on the life of jazz pianist and arranger Mary Lou Williams. If you get a chance to turn to your public broadcasting station to see Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, do so. …
Read MoreIf you’ve read my blog over the past nearly six years, you know that I am loyal – fiercely loyal, in fact – to those who have been a positive influence in my life. I have always supported causes of conscience; organizations that have improved the world of humankind. And in the same breath, if…
Read MoreOkay, let’s make sure I have everything. Changes of clothes for the weekend? Check. Cameras and film and SD cards and lenses? Check. Six artworks for the Alumni Art Show at Reunions ’15 at Hamilton College this weekend? Check. Okay, time to jump in the Blackbird, step on the gas and – WAIT A SECOND!! …
Read MoreLast year, I participated in the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation’s Spirit of Life and Spencer Trask Memorial Restoration Campaign, as one of my Dream Windows appeared at the 2014 TRASK Art Show and Sale. This year, I decided to go in a different direction. No Dream Window this time; instead, since the theme of the…
Read MoreMonday nights. Plop in front of the television. I would watch WCW Monday Nitro and WWF (now WWE) Monday Night Raw, taping one and watching the other live. You can get four, five, sometimes six hours of wrestling doing this. But many things happened after that. The death of Eddie Guerrero. The murder-suicide of Chris…
Read MoreThe Disney film Tomorrowland didn’t perform as well as Disney would have hoped. Granted, it was a “tentpole” feature, but apparently there weren’t enough campers interested in it. So because of that, the House of Mouse has decided to halt production on its other futuristic movie franchise. No, not the Pirates of the Caribbean film…
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Nine years ago, I took this picture. That was at least three digital cameras ago; this must have been captured with my old Nikon D70. I think I caught this picture at Albany Rural Cemetery. it’s too ancient a photo to enter in competition; and I’ve actually taken better photos than that in the decade…
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