Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Dear Allen… I was thinking about you today. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I think about you a lot. Maybe not every single moment, but you’re always in my mind. It was a weird weather day – Sunday felt like springtime, even though I know it’s mid-January. Lots of fog in the air. Misty, ethereal…
Read MoreThe best part of purchasing any product today is that when that product finally falls apart, you are confident in the knowledge that said item has provided exactly what it was built to provide, and then some. About sixteen years ago, I purchased a recliner. It was a La-Z-Boy recliner with a blue fabric exterior,…
Read MoreHaven’t put a new album in the casket yet, but this one’s a great choice. Several years ago, an archivist found a collection of old radio station acetate recordings in a New York City storage locker. What was on the acetates? Recordings of music and commercials and songs and news reports, all from 1940’s-era Jewish…
Read MoreFirst off, let me state that no matter how I did last night – first place, last place, somewhere in the middle – the big winners were the Big Brothers / Big Sisters of the Capital Region, whose “Big Brains” trivia night at the Latham Holiday Inn had reached its fundraising goal before the first…
Read MoreSince I had other commitments – the Big Brothers Big Sisters charity trivia game, for example – and Jeremy and Katie were preparing for a major Ultimate Disc tournament on the West Coast – the Street Academy team was not represented last night at Elbo Room. But I did have host General James send me…
Read MoreOnce again, we start with the mystery Amish message, spoken in Pennsylvania Dutch, about how the Amish church does not acknowledge the existence of the Amish Mafia. Of course, the way it’s staged, you would think that the show was being set in the Lancaster County, Pa. version of Twin Peaks. Be that as it…
Read MoreMy girlfriend Nicole was very impressed by the fact that I have met and interviewed several popular musicians and bands as part of my previous employ with Goldmine magazine. She was especially impressed that I had met Brad Paisley, and that I had pictures to prove it. Well, I do have the pictures… but… Follow…
Read MoreOkay, hands up. How many of you sang in your grade school choir or glee club? Yeah, I see your hands. I’ve done it as well. And you have to agree with me, the song selection for all these choir recitals was whack. SERIOUSLY whack. I still have nightmares of singing “The Wells Fargo Wagon…
Read MoreOne of my favorite rock bands of all time is the Australian/New Zealand combo Dragon. With the charismatic lead singer Marc Hunter fronting the band, they had a string of international hits like “April Sun in Cuba”, “Get That Jive,” “Sunshine,” “Rain,” “Western Girls” and a dozen and a half more. I eventually wrote an…
Read MoreThe other day, I gave my cell phone carrier, Verizon Wireless, a call about some issues with my cell phone bill. Nothing major, certainly nothing blog-worthy. And then, I just made an off-handed comment about how I’m glad I was grandfathered into the “unlimited data” package from a while back. And that someday, I’ll trade…
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