I’ve pared my laundry routine down to a science. Put a bag of clothes in my car before I go to work, so that on the way home I can stop at the laundromat and launder my laundry. A separate tote bag for my detergents, my fabric softeners and my dryer sheets. And if I…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 13 2025
I added a new blog to the blogroll today, the writings of Paris Buttfield-Addison, a writer and professor from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia who is heavily involved in game development and technology. I saw one of his blog posts in my Mastodon feed, and was impressed enough to share his texts to my blogroll for all…
Read MoreIs this the Gumby & Pokey / Davey & Goliath crossover episode we never knew existed?
Children of the 1950’s will remember the great animated series Gumby, in which a green anthropomorphic clay figurine and his trusty clay horse Pokey go on surreal adventures in the stop-motion world. The show was immensely popular in its time, and would later get a revival in the 1990’s. As for me, I was more…
Read MoreOh, so THAT’s where the new Albany Center Gallery is now located!!
It’s a synergy, I tell you. It has to be. Yesterday, after I posted my blog about taking my artwork The Shooting Star to the new Albany Center Gallery location, one of my friends, Roger Green, messaged me to suggest I list ACG’s new address, as they have moved from their former location to this…
Read MoreDrop-Off Day for A Shooting Star
Back in the summer, I had a photo shoot up at the Corinth Reservoir, one of the darkest skies in the Capital District. I captured the Milky Way during a meteor shower … and one of the meteors photo-bombed my Milky Way image. Specifically … this little capture. I had several prints produced by my…
Read MoreSo those horns aren’t sung to the lyrics of “John Cena Sucks” after all??
So apparently wrestler John Cena is on his farewell tour. He’s scheduled to wrestle one more match – against a top WWE star named Gunther – and then Cena will hang up his wrestling sneakers and put away his jorts. And we won’t hear that classic John Cena intro song ever again. Yeah, that one.…
Read MoreA master print of A CO Railfan’s Dream
I really like this digital-meets-film collage from earlier this year, A CO Railfan’s Dream. This one, to be precise. But I want to do something extra to it. And by “extra” – I have an idea. I purchased some laser printer transparency sheets, which will allow me to use a photocopier or a laser printer…
Read MoreUnless Han shoots first, I’m not going.
I get it. George Lucas created an entire legacy on his 1977 science fiction epic Star Wars. And in that legacy, he expanded on the original film by turning it into the middle part of a nine-film epic saga (renaming the original film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), and then spending the better…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 6 2025
Good morning, blog readers, it’s time for another Saturday recap of the thoughts and blogs and photos of my personal blogroll. We’ve got some returning blogs, as well as some fresh content from our favorites. So let’s get right at it. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreHudson’s Bay – the TV western about the history of a department store.
The Hudson’s Bay Company has a fascinating history. They were instrumental in the formation and exploration of what would become Canada, and their fur trading ports evolved into a collection of department stores and clothiers throughout the Great White North. And in1959, someone had this great idea to create a television series that placed the…
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