As Labor Day weekend continues, I’m reminded of some songs from the late 1990’s, a collection of one-hit wonders that exploded onto the radio, appeared in heavy rotation on music video channels – and then the song, and the band, disappeared as if it never existed. And I thought it might be nice to hear…
Read More“Tubular Bells” is an album I want to be buried with
I’m not really sure where I was the first time I heard Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. Maybe it was on the radio in a heavily edited 45 RPM version, where it was touted as the theme from The Exorcist. Or maybe it was in college, when I was a disc jockey for WHCL (88.7 fm),…
Read MoreDid Phish get ripped off by a tween-pop star?
All you Phish fans, pay attention. This is important. Apparently, someone out there likes one of your hits. So much so, in fact, that the melody of one of your hits is remarkably similar to their breakout hit. This is not new. Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism, and I’ve chronicled in past blogs…
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My 2014 Vermont State Fair entries are…
Resolved. We are NOT going to have what happened last year happen again. Last year, two of my pictures were initially disqualified from the Vermont State Fair’s photography competition because the dimensions were too narrow on one side (the pictures needed to be a minimum of 8×10, and two of them had widths of about…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Shore
“How far can you go?” Jackson the golden retriever asked of his friends. “I’m not a water cat,” purred Vincent the tabbycat. “I’ll stay on the shore, thank you.” “How cold is the water?” asked Bate, the terrier. “Not very cold,” barked Jackson, as the waters form the Shore of the Cedars rippled over the…
Read More“Do you know the way to Puyallup?”
This year, in addition to entering my photos in the usual locations – Altamont, the New York State Fair, and the upcoming Vermont State Fair and Big E – I tried to send some of my images to new and different fairs and photo competitions. Sometimes it worked – I did get a silver award…
Read MoreThe 51st Resolution
I woke up Sunday morning and put the tape around my body. I held it tight against my skin, as tightly as possible. What am I looking at? What will this tape mean? And at that moment, I thought back. Back two years ago, when I came up with the 49th Resolution. It was at…
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Santa’s in drydock: an Instamatic project
I’ve been trying to restore my photo-mojo of late, doing whatever it takes to get my photographic eye back in alignment. And in doing so, I decided to return to some of my earlier photo projects, experiments and excursions. Sometimes the experiments worked well; but there were other photo-attempts that I started, got frustrated with,…
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Get a little dirt on your hands, son…
I don’t have a problem with hard work. What’s that old saying, “A little hard work never hurt anybody?” Hell, I’ll just Bill Anderson explain all. A little hard work doesn’t bother me. Which is why I’ve had no problem assisting my girlfriend Nicole when it comes to gardening. Dig out a patch of grass…
Read More“I don’t own Cardachrome any more, DePaula Chevrolet!!”
First off, let me start this blog post by stating that I’ve appreciated all the support DePaula Chevrolet has provided to my vehicles. They took detailed care of my 1991 Pontiac 6000, and kept it going for longer than that car should have been allowed to live. When the car died in March 2010, they…
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