This isn’t the first time that speeches from a famous political figure have been, shall we say, “re-interpreted” in the popular music field. When I was in college, someone edited together pieces from Malcolm X’s speeches, soldered a drumbeat to them, and created this popular dance track. Yesterday morning, I found that one of the…
Read MoreCollarworld: Butterscotch and the Bauble
Time passed in Collarworld, the afterlife waystation where pets wait for reunification with their masters. Vincent, the king orange tabbycat, became friends with Paisley, the pitbull with a heart of gold. And over time, they also made friends with – and said goodbye to – several different cats, dogs, birds and other pets. The relationships…
Read MorePeter Puck, hockey’s pokecheck professor
With the NHL finally returning to our collective sports pages, I thought it might be fun to bring back another icon from the ice hockey world. In this case, I’m bringing back Peter Puck, the lead character in a series of Hanna-Barbera produced cartoons that were designed to explain ice hockey to new viewers. I…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The forgotten ballads
Let me explain what’s going on here. So many fantastic songs have been forgotten over time – major radio hits that have drifted into the ethereal memories. They barely receive any airplay on the oldies stations, and if anyone does mention these singers or their songs, it’s always with a tinge of “I think I…
Read MoreA Dream Window achievement!!!
Yes, I’m still working on Dream Windows, my specialized art project in which I take salvaged window frames and repurpose them into dedicated artworks that chronicle my life experiences. Last year, I finished my fifth Dream Window, entitled The Thirst Quencher. If you want to see how that one was constructed, I chronicled everything in…
Read MoreWeek 19 of the $2,000 2013 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
As I sit at Elbo Room, munching on a club sandwich and listening to the questions asked this week, my mind is on other things. Things of support. For example, although I’m playing solo tonight, I’m also cheering on my current Street Academy teammates Jeremy and Katie, who are in California right now. Their Ultimate…
Read More“Amish Mafia” episode review: The Reckoning
I swear, when I hear this disclaimer that the Amish church disavows any knowledge of the Amish Mafia, I wonder if I play the disclaimer backwards, it will provide some secret message like “Try my cousin Ephraim Yoder’s shoo-fly pie, it will make thee very happy…” Well, I thought we were all done with this…
Read MoreThe volunt-amat-communi-blogger
I’ve written this post at least six times and thrown it away eight times. Put your calculator away. Yes, I can count. Yes, I’m being metaphorical. What kind of blogger am I? According to the Times Union, I’ve been referred to on various occasions as a “reader-blogger,” a “community blogger,” an “amateur blogger,” a “volunteer…
Read MorePower lines and trackless train trestles
Yes, I’m still experimenting with shooting “redscale” film, in which the film is inserted backwards into the camera so that the film’s back emulsion layers are exposed first. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when it works… wow it works. Case in point. December 21, there’s maybe a chill in the air but there’s…
Read MoreThe dairy barn and Svema film
I’m going to find a way to make this wonky, gritty, industrial Svema B&W film work to my advantage. Yes, I’ve said it before. Yes, I’ve even said it before that. So a couple of weeks ago, I packed my Nikon F100 camera with some vintage Svema film and went out for a little shooting. …
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