Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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 MoreYes, I’m still trying to pull a Buena Vista Panorama image – a super-ultra-wide panorama with 120 film and my Rolleflex Automat MX camera – for Competition Season 2024. And so far, I’ve had some okay shots and some less than successful shots. So let’s try something else. Road trip to my alma mater. Hamilton…
Read MoreSo it’s late September, and I still have a few rolls of AGFA Scala black and white slide film in the freezer. The only company in the world that can still develop this slide film, DR5 in Iowa, announced there would be a development run in November. So if I want to use this film…
Read MoreIn 1974, the comic strip Peanuts introduced a new recurring plotline – that of Snoopy leading a team of his bird friends as the “Beagle Scouts.” Snoopy would act as the scoutmaster, while the birds – Woodstock, of course, but at least three of his friends – would follow Snoopy on hikes and campouts. This…
Read MoreAs a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in New York, it’s often a guessing game as to whether I’ll see the Black and Gold on my TV screen or if I’ll have to do a hybrid watch/listen combination to follow my favorite football team. In other words, if the Steelers play on one of the prime time…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, I underwent surgery to remove a diabetic abscess from one of my toes. I blogged about it … because, of course I did. I spent the past two weeks healing. And last Friday, the podiatrist felt that my progress had improved to the point where he took the stitches out of what…
Read MoreGood morning, my amazing blog family. It’s a rainy weekend here in Albany, but I have so many outdoor chores to take care of – so there’s no goofing around here. Plus, I have a Saturday morning blog recap for everybody. So let’s get at it, shall we? Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreLong-time readers of this blog will remember that when the last film in the Mad Max series, Mad Max: Fury Road, hit the theaters in 2015, I was completely stoked. I wanted another adventure of the cop-turned-vigilante Max Rockastansky. I wanted car crashes and action scenes that just screamed big-screen entertainment. And I had waited…
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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 MoreYou know that thing where people post online phrases like, “Can you recommend a TV show on Netflix / Hulu / Disney+?” and everybody responds with the same five or six shows that everyone else has seen? You’re going to thank me for recommending this show. It is absolutely the cutest reality TV show I’ve…
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