It was May of 1977, and I remember where I saw it first. I was in line at the Cine 1-2-3-4-5-6 behind Northway Mall, waiting to see Star Wars for its first week on the big screen. I already knew some of the story; for the past three months the movie’s plotline had been serialized…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 9 – Brawl
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MorePhotographing an Exploding Basketball Backboard
It’s a moment everybody wants to see, but nobody knows when it’s coming. In March 2008, I was photographing the Premier Basketball League finals between the Rochester Razorsharks and the Arkansas Impact at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester.ย During the first quarter, Rochester’s Keith Friel tried to hit a three-point jumper, only to have the…
Read MoreThe Cheeziest Pop Songs of the 1970’s
Fellow TU poster J. Eric Smith has a blog post about songs you should really hear.ย In the blog post, he mentioned a Bee Gees song, and someone responded about how they enjoyed the Bee Gees song “(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts.”ย At which point J. Eric mentioned that it seemed incongruous that the…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 8 – Arrival in Bark Creek
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreWeek 9 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Thanks to the attendance rule, in which one must show up for 75% of the 16-week tournament in order to qualify for the finals, there’s really no way my Street Academy team won’t make the cut.ย At this point, it’s just show up, order food, and play. But I’m tired of just showing up and…
Read MorePhantogram’s “Mouthful of Diamonds” or Blotto’s “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard”?
It used to be so easy.ย While every other major metropolitan city and town had a rock band or a pop singer that they could call their own – even cities like Akron, Ohio (Devo, the Pretenders) or Springfield, Massachusetts (Staind), Albany had – well, we had Blotto.ย And Blotto was good.ย Very good.ย Blotto…
Read MoreDon’t get the lead singer of KISS mad
I say this because apparently there’s some YouTube clips of Paul Stanley getting very cheezed off in concert. First off, some background.ย I’ve seen two KISS concerts in my lifetime, and both of them were at the arena downtown.ย The first show was during KISS’ reunion tour, and featured the classic lineup of Gene Simmons,…
Read MoreThe Robins of Iverhill: Chapter 7 – Bus Ride
NOTE: the following story, which will be serialized on this blog, was originally written in 1985 as my senior project in creative writing at Hamilton College. 25 years later, it has been updated. New chapters will appear Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Previous chapters are listed with hyperlinks below. PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1 – THE NEW MAN…
Read MoreI got the water heater blues…
It started last week, when our gas man came over to clean out the gas boiler. This is something they do on a regular basis. I thought nothing of it. The next morning, I noticed that our hot water was almost non-existent. I contacted the gas man to see if there was an issue, since…
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