I know it’s on my birth certificate. I know it’s on my driver’s license. Still, only a few people in my life – a VERY SELECT FEW PEOPLE – ever get to call me those names today. And with good reason. We do not get to pick our birth names. By the time we’re out…
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Is that Chuck’s artwork in the Stockade Walkabout? YES IT IS!!
So here’s the deal. Last week, a friend / blog reader contacted me. Her cousin has redesigned some lofts in Schenectady’s Stockade area, and in addition to showing off the new living spaces, they need some artwork for the upcoming Stockade Walkabout open house. They needed something that would show off the new lofts and…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, September 25, 2014: Ten for Thursday
Here we go with another Thursday run of ten Times Union community bloggers whose works you should read. Again, if you missed why I brought this feature back last week, my goal is to bring enough awareness to these community bloggers and their excellent work that next year, when the Times Union does its annual…
Read MoreCracking the barrier
I’m frustrated. This should work, in theory anyway… But over the past couple of years, it’s become more of a barrier than a blessing. Yep. I’m trying to make this Instamatic film do something special. And it’s not cooperating. Yeah, I know that nobody’s making Instamatic film any more, I know that much of the…
Read MoreThe Return of James Harrison!!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan through and through. Which automatically means that I detest the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, any team in the AFC East, the Dallas Cowboys, the Green Bay Packers, and any team that DARES to sign Tim Tebow to their roster.…
Read MoreRutland the Goat
I don’t know anything about the parentage or breeding or background for this little goat. He was in a pen at the Vermont State Fair, along with a few other baby goats. He probably had no idea that he was being photographed. I don’t think that goats have a concept of what a camera is.…
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Results of the 2014 Big E Photo Competition
Rough day yesterday. Just absolutely rough. Suffice it to say that I screwed some stuff up that shouldn’t have been screwed up in the first place. Yes, Chuck messes up in life. So I’m in a bit of a self-loathing, Chuck-hating mood right now… And I need something, anything, to change my outlook. Well, I…
Read MoreNo nights off…
“No Nights Off” is the mantra of the 2014-15 National Basketball League of Canada basketball season. From November to about mid-April, it’s also my mantra. For the fourth consecutive year, I’ll take care of maintaining statistics and player relations with the NBL. This means I have to make sure that every player on the league’s…
Read MoreThe day George Karl kicked a field goal
It’s January 2, 1991, and the Albany Patroons are hosting the Oklahoma City Cavalry at the Knickerbocker Arena (now known as the Times Union Center). Being a referee in the Continental Basketball Association can be as dangerous as shouting “Go Seminoles” at the University of Miami. Besides putting up with such original verbal taunts as…
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The 75,000 Milestone
It happened just as I pulled off I-787 toward downtown Albany yesterday. And despite breaking every single rule of using a cell phone in a car, I had to take a picture of the moment. Because if I didn’t capture that moment right then and there… I’d never capture it. And at approximately 8:30 in…
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