And let’s start Competition Season off. The last news I heard, three of my four entries were accepted by the Iowa State Fair’s photography salon. Which makes me very happy. And now I have the results of which ones got selected and which selected entries picked up silks. But it’s not like I can just…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, August 10 2024
It’s a busy weekend for me – today is “drop-off day” at the Altamont Fair, and I’ve got my four entries in the car already. Tomorrow I’m driving downtstate to pick up some Craigslist purchases, and inbetween all that I have other chores and household stuffs to complete. But I can’t do anything right now…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for August 9, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show, a rebroadcast from March 19, 2021, is a special retrospective of the 1980’s record label Rocshire. Time Artist Song Release…
Read MoreThe Return of the Snowflake Ride
There are photos in my archive that, for one reason or another, I just love to enter into competitions. Case in point – a photo I took a few years ago at the New York State Fair, a photo of a scrambler thrill ride in mid-scramble, is still part of my catalog and, on occasion,…
Read More2,776 days after my exodus … I’m still here.
Today is August 7, 2024. Prior to my time as an independent blogger, I blogged for the local newspaper, the Albany Times Union, from August 25, 2009 until I left the blog farm on April 1, 2017. Well, “left” is the easy way to describe it. “Escaped” is a better term. Although I did have…
Read MoreHoly crap, Heather Kovar’s back in the news.
I really wish I didn’t have to write this blog post. Seriously. Last December, I blogged that former WRGB news anchor Heather Kovar – who was released from WRGB after a trainwreck broadcast where she appeared disoriented, disheveled, and countering the effects of something that can be measured in “proof” – had found a new…
Read MoreThe Results of Summer Bowl XIII
And in the end, I finished as a winner. Well, I didn’t win the tournament, if that’s what you thought I meant. No, I finally put the final flower in a 17-year-long garden of team trivia competition. From the first day I walked into a Tuesday night contest at Hooters in Crossgates Mall, to last…
Read MoreTonight is the end of a personal trivia career, win or lose.
It seems like an eternity ago. But nearly twenty years ago, I stopped into the Hooters at Crossgates Mall on a Tuesday night, and played competitive team trivia as a one-man team – and finished the night in third place, winning a bucket of chicken wings that would have fend a four-man squad. That was…
Read MoreThe drive-in speaker said “does not work.” And it was full of sand. But that’s not the BIGGEST mystery here.
These drive-in speaker restoration projects are becoming more and more fun. Case in point. A few weeks ago, I acquired an RCA drive-in speaker from an eBay seller. I was intrigued by the unit, especially because the back of the chassis had the words “DOES NOT WORK” scribbled on it. Okay, I like a challenge.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, August 3 2024
Are we in August already? Jeez, it seemed like it was July just last month. 😀 Okay, corny dad joke done and out of the way, it’s now time to recap the wonderful bloggers and photographers and writers and thinkers that populate my personal blogroll. Take a look, leave a comment on their page, and…
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