What a way to start the morning. I’m here at the DePaula Chevrolet body repair shop. No, I haven’t been in a car accident… but the front right headlight is only working intermittently. I’ve already received one warning from the local ticket-troopers, and I don’t want a second warning – well, warning would most likely…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: 1980’s Hip Hop Heaven
I picked up my appreciation of rap and classic old school hip-hop music by assimilation – when your high school classmates bring in the latest 12-inch Sugarhill Records dance tracks, you learn quickly how to hip hop hip hop don’t stop that body rock. And when I spent four years at Hamilton College, being one…
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Caption Time: What’s that on Route 2?
Yesterday morning I’m driving on Route 2 from Watervliet to Latham… when all of a sudden… I saw it in the road. Had to hit the brakes. Not enough time. Maybe if I swerve around… not enough time… wait. Oncoming traffic sees it too, they’re slowing down. Just enough of a chance… And I swerve…
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Driving Thanksgiving dinners for Equinox 2014
I’ve watched the weather report for days. Winter is coming so quickly, you would think that George R.R. Martin was a meteorologist. And it’s given me pause. Delivering turkey dinners on Thanksgiving is an important duty for me. But should I do it in a snowstorm? What if I get stuck in a ditch while…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, November 27, 2014: Ten for Thursday
What, you thought I was going to take Thanksgiving off? Heck no. I figured that if you’re busy reading this blog, you’re either waiting for the turkey to finish cooking, or for the relatives to arrive, or the Macy’s Parade to start. So if I can bring you ten quality blog posts by ten quality…
Read MoreThe Re-Try and the Re-Discovery
Last week, I tried mixing old film with Kodak Instamatic film and it turned into a complete and utter failure. I got one solitary, ordinary picture for my efforts. Cue the sad trombone. This week, I went back to my subject location – the marquee of the Jericho Drive-In Theater in Glenmont – and tried…
Read MoreUpcoming Albany Institute of History and Art exhibition to feature baseball, local and national
Many years ago, when I was clearing out most of my accumulated collections in the wake of my divorce, I bundled up boxes of Albany-based scorecards and game programs and memorabilia, all for donation to the Albany Institute of History and Art for their records and archives. The other day, I heard from Tammis Groft,…
Read MoreThe “Fagbug Nation” review…
I spent the weekend watching Erin Davies’ second documentary about her rainbow-colored Volkswagen, the Fagbug. You know the story by now – someone spraypainted her Volkswagen with homophobic graffiti, and she decided to take those hateful comments and turn them into a message of tolerance and acceptance. Her first documentary about the car, Fagbug, did…
Read MoreWhy I drive for Equinox on Thanksgiving Day
Every year, I’ve associated this charitable tradition – delivering turkey dinners on Thanksgiving Day for those in the Capital District who need them – as one of the most important and charitable functions I can undertake each year. And as much as I feel good about this holiday every year… Sometimes I get the feeling…
Read MoreAt this point in my blogging history with the Times Union, I’ve achieved several records and marks in my five-plus years of blogging. And we’re not just talking about my consecutive-day-blogging streak here. I’ve crafted a blog post that had 1,000 words – none of which contained the letter “e”. I’ve written a blog post that was a thousand-word sentence. I’ve written at least one or two blog posts that were scanned typewritten pages; I’ve done blog posts that were nothing but an assemblage of photographs and intertitles. Heck, I even had one blog post where the letters were printed upside-down – making people actually rotate their computer monitors to read my post. Ha ha ha. This is what I call “fun.” So why do I do this? It’s more of a personal challenge, to see if I can use the framework of blogging, the metaphysics of meta-blogging, if you will, to create new ideas and new concepts. It’s almost like using toothpicks and chopsticks as painting implements, while using paint rollers and brushes to serve food. So after I’ve created these experimental blog posts, I’ve now decided that this current blog post will set two new marks in my TU blogging career … today’s TU blog post contains the longest title ever on this TU portal … and this blog post also sets a record with the shortest blog content…
ever.
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