Sometimes you get a song that’s so powerful, so moving, so emotionally stirring that no matter who performs it, you can’t hear a bad version. And in this case, the song I’m talking about is called “Temptation’s About to Get Me.” It was originally written by Jimmy Diggs in 1965, and Diggs performed it with…
Read MoreAnd as the flight attendant opened the lavatory door…
This video was posted on social media over the weekend, and … hoo boy … Let me explain. Apparently there’s a very specific taboo fetish involving having sex with a total stranger in an airplane bathroom. It’s colloquially called the “Mile High Club,” and it’s been the subject of countless rumors, untold porno movies, and…
Read More’81 Camaro, Slightly Used
There’s an old joke among car aficionados that a car’s brand name isn’t a true name, but is actually an acronym that could be equated to a sick burn. For example, “FORD” could stand for either “Found On Road Dead,” “Fix Or Repair Daily,” or “Found Outside Rotting Dump.” “FIAT” could stand for “Fix It…
Read MoreThe Bicentennial, a check and 9/11
NOTE: The following blog post was originally posted on September 11, 2012. It has been updated for today. It’s the fourth of July weekend, 1976. My mother thought it would be a great idea to take me to New York City to see the Tall Ships sale in the harbor. That’s all she talked about…
Read MoreSkywatchers
Sometimes the best moments in photography occur when you look up … and you grab the first camera your hands can grasp. I took some shots of the elevated gondola ride at the New York State Fair earlier this year. Some of the shots were captured with my Nikon F2S pink-skinned camera (“Nikon Athena”). But…
Read MoreI’m only a couple of miles away from the strip club.
I checked my car’s dashboard. There’s a chance I can make it in time, hopefully I calculated the distance. If I’m off by even a mile … this won’t work. Here I am on Broadway, driving from Albany to Menands. I’m about two miles away from Ciro’s Gentleman’s Club, an adult business on the Albany-Menands…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, September 9, 2023
Good morning, blog readers. I’ve added a couple of new blogs to the blogroll in the past few weeks, and you will see them populate in today’s blog. By all means, check them out – and check out all the other writers and photographers and podcasters that populate this week’s blogroll review. Have a great…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for September 8, 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 MoreMehdi Hasan tore Vivek Ramaswamy apart like a cheap suit.
I don’t know that much about Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – heck, I had to double-check the spelling of his name before I even wrote today’s blog post. But I can tell you that Ramaswamy is a mighty wind coming from an empty cave. His promises on the campaign trail are absolutely bonkers. And…
Read MoreSo there’s a new Star Trek series … based on a 50-year-old Star Trek cartoon series?
After Star Trek completed three years of its five-year mission on NBC in the 1960’s, the show was cancelled. However, the program proved extremely successful in the syndication market, where the original 79 episodes drew legions of fans and cries for new stories of the Starship Enterprise and its crew. And in 1973, Star Trek…
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