First off, I want to announce that the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District has, for its art project in 2013, a project to restore and resurrect old brickad art and “ghost signs” in the downtown area. If you’re interested in participating in this project, read this document and submit your proposal. Okay? Good. Now, on…
Read MoreMy red support for equality
Hi. Welcome to my blog. My name is Chuck Miller, and I’ve been a part of the Times Union family of community bloggers since August of 2009. In that timespan, I’ve written more than 1,800 blogs on everything from photography to trivia, from the highs and lows of my life, from every triumph and stumble,…
Read MoreSvema film, HDR and the Jericho Drive-In
Remember that snowstorm that blew through the Capital District last week? Yeah, that one. I remember it well. Maybe because I actually got up at the yawn-inducing hour of 5:00 a.m. and readied my cameras for a little photo shoot. See, the Jericho Drive-In currently has their ice cream parlor open – so it says…
Read More“The Big Lebowski” on the “Royale With Cheese Movie Club”
Okay, you blog-readers all voted. I gave you several titles a few weeks ago for my next Royale With Cheese Movie Club choice – films that everybody in the world has seen except me – and you chose “The Big Lebowski.” I should say that in watching this film, I was a bit out of…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” blog bracket, Day 4
And so the Final Four has been determined. With Duke’s 66-50 win over Creighton last night, that means that blog-reader Pat has cruised past J-Mac to make my blog-bracket’s final four. She gets to face Jango Davis in the semifinals, while D357 takes on blog-bracket-buster Bill W in the other semifinal round. So here’s the…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 3
The first round of the “blog bracket,” in which sixteen readers of this blog are matched up with sixteen teams in the NCAA Division 1’s Midwest bracket, went off pretty well. Only one major upset, and seven of the eight top seeds advanced. Now let’s see how six teams did against each other. While the…
Read MoreImagination becomes reality.
I wonder sometimes if, between the time we start to fall asleep and the moments where it actually occurs, what we might hear in our subconscious mind. Maybe we are greeted with an electromagnetic chorus of classical music, similar to Isao Tomita’s interpretation of Claude Debussy’s “Arabesque No. 1”, in our minds… Or maybe Claude…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 2
Yesterday, six blog commenters advanced to the next round of the “blog-specific” Blog Bracket, which is tied in with the Midwest Division of the NCAA basketball tournament. They include blog commenters D357, Chad 9976, Bill W, Potrzebie, Erin’s Dad and Jango Davis. That still leaves two competitions from Friday – J-Mac v. Lazygal (Creighton v.…
Read MoreNine months after the 49th Resolution.
The toughest part is letting go. Letting go of the anger and the hatred and the feelings of worthlessness and regret and fear and sadness. Not to just let it go completely – but to not let it take control of my life any more. It’s been almost nine months since I sat in a…
Read MoreThe “blog-specific” bracket after Day 1
And the action in the NCAA has begun. So what does this mean for my sixteen blog readers? Well, it means that some of them have advanced to the next round – while others are packing their bags and saying, “Wait till next year, when Chuck expands the field to a round of 32.” I…
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