I’m currently in the final states of recovery and repair from my recent surgeries. Because my left foot had to be opened up to remove the infected tissue and bones and whatnot, there wasn’t enough natural skin left on my foot to seal it back up with stitches. So we now have to turn to…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Pass it on the left-hand side…
On my “Nightowl Radio Show” series, I often put together something called a “sample example,” where a chunk of one song can be heard in a second song. Well, in last week’s broadcast, I showed how one of the biggest worldwide hits of the early 1980’s was actually cobbled from the frame of THREE different…
Read MoreDonald Trump and Psalms 3:16
You could build a museum of failure to all the products Donald Trump has endorsed – products that either flopped, went bankrupt, or were outright swindles. Let’s see … catch me if I miss any – Trump Steaks, Trump: The Board Game, Trump Mattresses, Trump Vodka, Trump Ice Water, Trump shirts and ties, Trump video…
Read MoreTwo weeks to the eclipse … and the weather reports are not helping.
The Great North American Eclipse will take place on April 8, 2024. This will most likely be the last solar eclipse I can photograph in my lifetime, although there are two other solar eclipses in the next ten years – one that passes through Mecca, and one that visits Sydney. But for now, this will…
Read MoreThe zoom power of my Nikkor medical lens
Background. I recently acquired a Nikkor Medical 120mm f/4 lens for my Nikon gear. The lens pairs well with my Nikon Df digital camera, now let’s see how well it works with my Nikon F2S shooter (“Nikon Athena”). I hooked the lens up to Nikon Athena, slapped a roll of expired Fuji Superia 400 into…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 23 2024
What’s all this white stuff outside my home? Running to check the calendar … yep, supposed to be spring. Then again … I live in the Northeast, so I should expect snowstorms when I least expect them. And by typing that, I just realized that I did the same thing over 40 years ago when…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for March 22, 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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreWe’re finally getting the final season of Snowpiercer … in 2025.
Way back in 2023, I blogged about the fourth and final season of the dystopian drama Snowpiercer, which would have wrapped up the post-apocalyptic fantasy series. Then TNT, the network that aired the first three seasons of Snowpiercer, culled the show from its lineup and refused to air the fourth season – even though the…
Read More“Scalpel … forceps … rib spreader … lens cap…”
This is going to be fun. In 1962, Nikon manufactured a series of “medical” lenses for 35mm cameras. These lenses were attached to SLR cameras, and technicians could take photos of surgeries without the cameraperson getting in the way of the surgeon. The lens could take pictures in sizes from 1:11 to 1:1 (life-size) –…
Read MoreUp in the sky … it’s a restored Superman!
In 1941, Fleischer Studios – the animation studio who brought Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor to movie screens – released the first animated episodes of the Adventures of Superman. The series, which ran for two year and seventeen episodes, were visually brilliant, with major flourishes of art deco and noir stylings, plenty of two-fisted…
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