“A Dream in the Dash” – more pictures announced!

Okay, so you know of at least four artworks that will be on display beginning May 17th at the St. Agnes Cemetery “Living Room” art gallery and meditation area.  One Dream Window (number 6, “The Beacon”) and three prints (“Night Train to Heaven”, “The Agfa Bridge Over Ansco Lake,” and “The Lenten Meal”). Wanna find…

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12 SiriusXM channels to choose

I’ve had my 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt for the past five months, and it’s been the best five months of my driving life.  And one of the things that really captured my fascination with the Blackbird is that this bad boy has built-in SiriusXM satellite radio available on it. Aces. So in addition to six AM…

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When the second feature starts…

Last Saturday, I was testing out my new Lomography “Sprocket Rocket” 35mm camera.  It’s a plain little shooter that produces wide-angle photos AND exposes the film all the way to the sprocket holes.  I had a pack of Fuji 200 cheapo-cheapo film in the camera, and I decided to stop by my favorite local drive-in…

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My “blog-specific” blog-commenter bracket

You know, I could sit here and just try to figure out a bracket and post it here on the blog.  I could do like last year and submit an NIT bracket.  I could do like two years before and just gripe about the unfairness of the NCAA basketball system. But this time, I have…

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K-Chuck Radio: Enjoying Jose Feliciano!

I don’t think Jose Feliciano has ever recorded a bad song in his life. His songs are so full of joy and happiness, of social commentary and love and passion, that you can’t just listen to one song. No you can’t. And on today’s edition of K-Chuck Radio, I bring you one of the greatest…

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“OMG, you actually ate at The Olive Garden?!?”

A few days ago, my girlfriend Nicole and I went out for a tasty meal together.  She ordered the chicken Parmigiana, while I had a nice plateful of seafood Alfredo.   She had the endless salad, while I enjoyed a very delicious soup.  We feasted on the restaurant’s breadsticks, and all in all it was a…

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“A Dream in the Dash” – first artworks picked for the show

If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m ultra-excited about my first solo gallery art show this May at the St. Agnes Cemetery’s new art gallery and meditation room.  And in going through several years of archived photographs and images, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around how far I’ve come in my photography –…

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A once-in-a-lifetime vocal concert – for charity

My friend Tim Hauser is part of the jazz vocal quartet Manhattan Transfer, and he’s also a really great guy. Which is why I’m passing this message along, in the hopes that some of my readers, whether from the Capital District or worldwide, would be interested in supporting this effort. Read on, and whatever you…

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