Yes, I am a proud Chevrolet owner. My last three cars were Chevrolets, and the five cars I’ve owned in my life all were General Motors products (starting with the Pontiac 6000 and the Saturn Ion). I also have a serious disdain for anything connected to Elon Musk. I’m not enamored with his anti-trans, anti-Semitic…
Read MoreHey, look, it’s a partial lunar eclipse!
Yes, I have this little kick for astrophotography. Milky Way, star trails, lunar eclipses, solar eclipses, lightning strikes, all of the above. And last night, I wanted to capture the partial lunar eclipse that would pass through New York. I mean, it’s not a total lunar eclipse, that one arrives in March 2025. But this…
Read MoreNow these are the Saturday morning shows I would watch – in Super Panavision.
I’ve blogged about this before – there’s a YouTube community that takes various TV and movie properties and re-imagines them as 1950’s-era motion pictures – complete with two-minute AI-generated movie trailers and stentorial narration. Fun stuff. Now recently I’ve come across a YouTuber who went for some impressive projects. He’s taking classic Saturday morning cartoons…
Read MoreI got shot three times yesterday.
Once in the left arm, and twice in the right arm. Yep, I got my COVID-19 booster and the flu vaccine. Simple procedure. I went to my local Walgreens drug store and simply asked if there were any available walk-up appointments. The pharmacist said she could take me, she just needed to finish some things…
Read MoreWhy I’m skipping the Durham Fair this year (again)
Normally, my Competition Season consists of five different state and county fairs and collectives, beginning with the Iowa State Fair, following with the local Altamont and New York State Fairs, and finishing with the Big E and the Durham Fair. Last year, I skipped the Durham Fair due to situations beyond my control. And this…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 14 2024
Hi folks, another day, another blog post, another Saturday, another wrap-up of the great blog posts and photos and writings by those people who populate my personal blogroll. And if you happened to notice that the blogroll is a wee bit smaller this week … well, it was time for my annual blog-culling. If there…
Read MoreThis drive-in speaker was rescued from a fire
I have another drive-in speaker restoration project premiering today on YouTube. And in this one, the drive-in speaker looks reasonably decent at first appearance – but when I opened it up, the speaker was burned to bits, the internals were full of ash and cinders, and some of the screws were essentially fused into their…
Read MoreCelebrity Deathmatch: Marjorie Taylor Greene v. Laura Loomer
I have no respect for MAGA troll Laura Loomer. This (takes a deep breath to choose words carefully) woman is psychotic. I also have no respect for knuckle-dragging Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Trust me. Go through my blogging history. So when Laura Loomer was one of the Trump sycophants who accompanied Trump to his…
Read MoreNine Hundred Eleven Words: a Personal Remembrance of September 11, 2001
NOTE: The following post was originally published on September 11, 2009, and was repeated on September 11, 2011. It is repeated today for obvious reasons. The day started out horribly. Two days beforehand, my wife’s grandfather, Samuel Ginsburg, passed away after a long and valiant battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. That day, we were going to…
Read MoreThe day I paid $1.39/gallon to fill up my car
I own a 2017 Chevrolet Volt Premier hybrid sedan (nicknamed “Lightning’s Girl”). I can operate this car on full electric power (with a maximum of 60 miles on a full charge) or I could operate the car with its gasoline-powered internal combustion engine (garnering up to 400 miles on a full tank of fuel). There…
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