Hi everybody, hope you’re enjoying this extended holiday weekend. Of course, it IS the weekend, and that means I take a break from blogging about my thoughts and photos, and share instead the thoughts and photos on my personal blogroll. You should check these writers and photographers and bloggers out. You really should. Have a…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 5, 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 of an episode from July 7, 2023, is a special themed broadcast, featuring some of the worst and…
Read MoreGeneral Philip Sheridan gave me money last week.
I have to go back to 2011 for this. Maybe 2010, because that’s when I took the photo. I was in downtown Albany, taking photos wherever I could – just testing out my new-to-me Nikon D700 and having some fun. And as I walked around the Capitol building, I decided to capture a photo of…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Iowa State Fair are …
I first sent my photos to the Iowa State Fair’s Photography Competition in 2014. Ten years ago. It took three years for them to accept one of my entries, and another year before I picked up my first blue ribbon from that organization. The Iowa State Fair is the first of my five-event “Competition Season,”…
Read MoreSo is this what they meant by “The Mark of the Beast”??
This is what happens when I get the munchies. I go to the store. And I wanted some chicken breasts. Because, I mean, who doesn’t love chicken breasts? But it wasn’t until I got home, unpacked my groceries, and started to put all my perishables away … I noticed something about the chicken. Something rather…
Read MoreAnother “Buena Vista Panorama” attempt in Bennington County
So how does one celebrate Juneteenth on what is arguably the hottest day of the year? Simple. I grabbed my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera, packed my camera bag with four rolls of Fuji Provia 100F, and drove to Bennington County, Vermont. I’ve blogged about this before; Vermont has more wooden covered bridges than any other…
Read MoreIt was held together with yellow masking tape. For reals.
Okay. Normally, when I work on any DIY / arts and crafts / restoration project, I take a ton of photos, document everything on my blog, post the blog, and then work on the next project. This time around … I tried a new tactic. As I began work on another drive-in speaker restoration project,…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 29 2024
Good morning, blog readers – lots of fun things coming up this week. Canada Day is this Monday; Independence Day is this Thursday; and the weather still seems nice and reasonable after last week’s nasty heat wave. So let’s get started with this week’s blog recap, and then enjoy all the great weather out there.…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 28, 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 episode, originally broadcast on September 9, 2022, took a bunch of familiar rock and pop songs, and re-processed them as “Out…
Read MoreMr. Topham Hatt will be very cross when he sees this.
During the summers when I lived in Boston with my Grandma Betty, we would take Saturday trips on the MBTA trolley system, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. She would park her car at Cleveland Circle, and we’d get a Green Line train from there to Park Street, change for another Green…
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