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How to Not Freeze to Death

I don’t remember when the YouTube algorithm started serving these up to me, but over the last year I’ve started seeing “Survival” videos, in which an intrepid creator will purposely venture out into a difficult situation to see if they … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

I’m having a busy week at work, so here’s a piece that might come in emotionally handy by Friday: it’s basically a collection of drinking songs! Here is one of my absolute favorites, the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Georges … Continue reading

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“I scream, you scream, we all scream for non-fat tofutti rice dreamsicles”

MULDER: Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?SCULLY: It’s not ice cream… it’s non-fat tofutti rice dreamsicle.MULDER: Ugh… I bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that. –“The Unnatural”, THE X-FILES … Continue reading

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Golden Hour shining on Buffalo

Last weekend I had an opportunity to go out and do some shooting at Golden Hour, which is what photographers call the rough hour at sunrise or sunset. I hadn’t had an opportunity like that yet, and I am thrilled … Continue reading

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“Concepts of a Plan”

I didn’t watch the debate the other night, but I sure heard about it, and even I had to get in on the meme fun the next day: Apparently when asked for specifics of his plan for American healthcare once … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Continuing music selections from the films of James Cameron, who just turned 70 last month, we have a brief suite from True Lies. This movie answers the thought experiment of “What if James Cameron directed a James Bond movie?” Arnold Schwarzenegger … Continue reading

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Twenty-three

This is a repost of what I wrote on the twentieth anniversary of 9-11-01. I find myself increasingly unable to think of anything new to say about that day. Maybe it has finally become a memory best expressed in older … Continue reading

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Buffalo skies

Sometimes I don’t want to go to work but I grit my teeth and go anyway, and the Sky Gods see this and take pity on me by giving me something amazing to look at as I arrive…like this morning … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

I like it when I get in the car and hear just a few minutes of a piece with which I am unfamiliar, and then I either do a music search using Google’s listening and “ID a song” feature, or … Continue reading

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“It will be as though they dipped themselves in magic waters.”

Ninety-three. A hell of a life, a hell of a legacy. I hope he’s finding out now just what was in that cornfield, just beyond the left field line….

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