Four years ago, I blogged about the nomination of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate for the 2020 Presidential campaign. Not so much about her record in politics – but about all the knuckle-dragging racist, sexist, vitriolic horseshit that Republicans tried to throw at her. And not less than three days after President Biden…
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My entries for the 2024 New York State Fair Photography Competition are …
And now comes the big kahuna of Competition Season. The New York State Fair’s Photography Competition. I’ve participated in this show for 15 years, and my success / failure rate has run the gamut from six entries accepted with five ribbons (and two first place silks), to a stretch of several years where NOTHING made…
Read MoreHow did I get hooked on Harbor Freight??
Let me start off by saying that I never understood the appeal of Trader Joe’s. You try to park in a lot that charitably holds 20 cars if your driver is skilled in Tetris, then you go in the store and all the food is branded with Trader Joe’s specialty brand names. This apparently is…
Read MoreCaption Time: Hold still, little bunny…
So after finishing my blog yesterday, I needed to run some errands. And on my way out the door … I saw a hare. A rabbit. A bunny. And normally when I see any sort of nature creature, it flies away or runs away or hops away. But this time, the hare stayed there. Okay,…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 20 2024
Hi everybody, the work week is done, it’s time to rest and decompress from the work week before we have to go back for another work week, amirite? 😀 So let’s continue the decompression with a recap of this week’s posts and photos and thoughts from the bloggers on my personal blogroll. Enjoy! Have a…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 19, 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, originally broadcast on January 13, 2023, features duets between living artists and those who had passed away. Just because you’re…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Gaze into the crystal ball …
There’s a difference between prognostication and fortune-telling. You can use computer models and science to predict the weather; but Mother Nature will still mess with your plans. There’s a difference between using past results to handicap your horse racing bets, only to discover that the $100 you put on Horse #6 had him finishing eighth…
Read MoreAfter I repair this speaker … I ain’t selling it!!
I recently acquired a vintage drive-in speaker that once called the Westport Drive-In in Wichita, Kansas its home. Of course I did. And I know this because … Well … The chassis casting SAYS it came from the Westport Drive-In in Wichita, Kansas. See? Thankfully … the speaker’s internals were actually in very good condition.…
Read MoreYour model railroad can now be red or blue.
Last month, I blogged about how a company called Pat’s Trains had produced a limited-edition line of Donald Trump for President O-gauge locomotive rolling stock. You know, the perfect gift for your MAGA recreation of Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale. Now the original run of Donald Trump for President locomotives sold out (figuratively and literally),…
Read MoreSpeling iz harrd.
We all get these targeted advertisements on our social media feeds. It’s a royal pain in the ass. But sometimes the ads are intriguing. And the ads make me want to find out more about the product. Take, for example, this little blurbie that popped up on my Facebook page. I mean … that would…
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