In the latter months of James Buchanan’s presidency, just as the Southern states seceded from the Union, John A. Dix was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury upon the resignation of the previous officeholder. Dix’s appointment was essentially a lame-duck seat-filling action for the former New York Senator and postmaster; Abraham Lincoln was weeks…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 30 2023
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Last day of September, and let’s finish it off in style with a recap of this week’s blogroll contents and recaps and fun stuff of that nature. Here we go. Enjoy. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for September 29, 2023
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 MoreSapphire and Steel – the forgotten time travel genre series
Actor David McCallum, who participated in two iconic TV genre roles – the Russian secret agent Ilya Kuryakin in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and as Ducky Mallard in the procedural NCIS, passed away earlier this week. McCallum had a long and distinguished career in entertainment – in addition to his roles in The Man From…
Read More6,000
I was about to post something about my upcoming photo excursions … or maybe an overview on a long-lost television show or distant memory … or some anecdote from my childhood or from my adult life. And then I noticed something regarding my blog totals. This post right now – is my 6,000th blog. 6,000…
Read MoreA Trip to the Big E, 2023 Edition
And with my trip last Sunday to the Eastern States Exhibition (the “Big E”) in Massachusetts, my Competition Season 2023 is complete. Of the two entries I submitted to the Big E’s photography competition, only one – A Bicolor Sunflower – was accepted. So, as usual … I planned my trip out as carefully as…
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The Buena Vista Panorama project: Getting a panorama out of my Rolleiflex camera.
Back when I blogged for the Albany Times Union years and years ago, one of my fellow bloggers, Teri Conroy, gifted a camera from her attic to me. The camera was a Rolleiflex Automat MX twin-lens-reflex camera, and damn it was a workhorse. I acquired some swank photos from it over the years, and with…
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene is like a shankbone at Passover.
Let me check my MAGA Caucus Bingo card. Matt Gaetz … still trolling for underage girls with his Venmo account. Kevin McCarthy – proof that you can anagram the letters S P E N I and it would confirm that he neither has a “spine” nor a … yeah. Lauren Boebert – nope, I don’t…
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Results of the 45th Annual Capital District Photo Regionals
Background. Once upon a time, many many years ago, when I first put film in a camera and tried to take a picture with it … I thought my shots were good. Worthy. Definitely deserved some art-wall exposure. Then my daydreams crashed into reality. And not only were my artworks rejected in competition and in…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 23 2023
Good morning, everybody. We have now officially entered the autumn season, so keep an eye out for those fall foliage changes, they’re coming soon and they’re spectacular. But before you go on your leaf peeping trip … let’s check out the blog comments, photos and ideas from the people on my personal blogroll. And I…
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