I’ve always been a major fan of dogs. I actually like them way more than I like humans, which is not to say I dislike humans – they’re great and all – I just like dogs way more. This can lead to some obnoxious situations. My buddy Peter has introduced me to a friend of…
I stopped smoking cigarettes about a year and a half ago. I’ve gotten props about it since then, with friends telling me they are impressed I’ve quit one of the world’s most addictive substances. Whoa – hold the phone there. I haven’t actually QUIT anything. I’ve just shifted my depraved nicotine addition to a product…
I was driving distracted. I was primarily distracted by the cataclysmic pandemic bearing down on the Hudson Valley, and how to continue mainlining information on its progress while driving. WAMC’s broadcast was forked with static, so I started fiddling with the dial, glancing down to see the readout. When I glanced back up, there was…
I get injured pretty rarely. This honestly confuses me. I’ve taken absolutely zero precautions to ensure safety during my life. For instance, when I was looking to get back to the campsite after that anarchic music festival in Central America, and a friend said we could hitch a ride with one of the truckers breaking…
I have not one, but two Narcan applicators squatting ominously in the central counsel of my banged-up Nissan. This makes me nervous. In case you’ve been living in a religious commune for the last few years, Narcan is an opioid overdose reversal drug. If someone ODs on heroin – or Oxycontin, or fentanyl, or carfentanil,…
Last week, The Other Hudson Valley was purchased by the newspaper conglomerate Digital First Media, which plans to convert it into a satellite site for its larger newspaper holdings. The Other Hudson Valley will now exclusively carry general-interest content from these other newspapers. Kidding! – just kidding. But everything is going to change, and here’s…
I recently decided to get into optimal shape. I’m already adept at getting into good shape, since I’m forced to do it every spring after back-sliding into a mire of fast food and catatonia each winter. No, I’m getting in optimal shape. That can be defined in a lot of ways. A common one is…
I write about outdoorsy things a lot, and in an attempt to develop my naturalist vocabulary, I began bird-watching this spring. From the balcony where I do much of my writing, I spotted a rainbow of birds – vibrant blue jays, vivid goldfinches, tiger-orange Baltimore oriels. I saw a red-tailed hawk swoop within a dozen…
Antonio Delgado, the northern Hudson Valley’s freshman Congressman, was holding a discussion on affordable housing in Hudson last week when a very intriguing question came up. This was not the first or the last question during the forum, which attracted perhaps 80 people and was held in the community room of Bliss Towers, a public…
I’ve had a lot of unpleasant experiences with baseball. My parents, as per 90s suburban parenting rules, signed me up for little league at a very young age, an age where motor skills and the ability to understand basic causation is still developing, and it’s unreasonable to expect any sort of logical gameplay. I was…
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