Glens Falls

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Tired Of This Town

Are you tired of this town? Are you sick of sitting in the park and reading at the library and drinking coffee at Stewart's? Well then this song is for you.

It's a song called Tired Of This Town, by a group called The Only Children Free Download Here

Photo by Hey Paul

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Glens Falls On Youtube

I didn't realize it before, but I realize it now, I now know how to create play lists on Youtube. And here it is in all it's glory, Glens Falls of course. Most of those videos are mine, but some of them are from concerts and other people.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Yes! Flickr Eats Yahoo Photos

Yahoo Photos has decided to shut down, in favor of Flickr. I never could figure out how to browse Yahoo Photos anyway, and I don't think anyone else could either. In my opinion Flickr is way better, and the reason I am mention this is simply because every photo used on this site came from flickr, and I've used flickr for other things as well. So down with Yahoo Photos, we won't miss ya, because we never knew ya.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

My Chemical Romance - I Don't Love You

Since Illness forced My Chemical Romance to cancel their concert last Thursday, you may be wondering where are they playing now? Well their schedule for May is as follows, providing they don't get sick again:

May 8, 2007 - DCU Center - Worcester, MA

May 9, 2007 - Bell Centre, Montreal QC

May 10, 2007 - Scotiabank Place, Kanata ON

May 11, 2007 - Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON

May 12, 2007 - John Labatta Centre, London ON

May 15, 2007 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg MB

May 16, 2007 - Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon SK

May 18, 2007 - Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary AB

May 21, 2007 - WaMu Theater - Seattle, WA

May 22, 2007 - Memorial Coliseum - Portland, OR

More information on their myspace page

For more on My Chemical Romance, check them out on Last.fm here, their official webpage here, and their youtube profile here.

Monday, May 07, 2007

EVANESCENCE - Things I Forgot To Mention

When I mentioned the EVANESCENCE concert last month, I forgot to mention a little information about the group, so just in case you didn't know,

EVANESCENCE official website here, myspace page here, Last.fm page here

EVANESCENCE - Sweet Sacrfice

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EVANESCENCE -Lithium

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Youtube videos are just too flaky, here one minute gone he next so I won't post any, but you can search here.

Friday, May 04, 2007

Fall Out Boy - I'm A Little Man I'm also evil and Also Into Cats!

And yes speaking of Youtube, I have to admit that this was pretty damn funny, From Fall out Boy misheard lyrics on This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race

The real lyrics according to Yahoo Music

There is more to the Post Star than Meets The Eye

Up until yesterday I didn't even know the Post Star had a blog, but they do. And I don't think a lot of other people know about their blog either, because of the severe lack of comments. I stumbled upon it yesterday completely by accident when I saw the YouTube and Glens Falls: They’re all over each other headline in my Google Blog search for Glens Falls rss feed which I monitor daily. As far as I know there is no way to access it from the front page of the Post Star, I mean there might be a way to access it, but the navigation on their site is terrible, so who knows.

But anyway without further ado, here are the archives for The Post Star blog:

* May 2007
* April 2007
* March 2007
* February 2007
* January 2007
* December 2006
* November 2006
* October 2006
* September 2006

On second thought after looking at the homepage of the Post Star more closely, I see the Moms Blog and Sports Thoughts are listed on the front page.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Roundabout Promises To Be Alot Of Fun!

The New Roundabout promises to be more fun than a carnival ride! Hopefully. For the opening ceremony on Sunday there'll be bagpipes and antique cars and a ribbon cutting ceremony, and a trolley doing donuts in the roundabout, a parade, and the Mayor giving a long boring speech. Fun for everybody! But just like any carnival ride there will be some rules:

Here you can read more about How To Navigate Through a Roundabout. The city is apparently anticipating a lot of people approaching the roundabout slowly in their vehicles, stopping before entering the roundabout, and getting out of their vehicles and scratching their heads and wondering what do I do? What do I do?

I say come on man, people are not that dumb, are they? The roundabout may not be much to look at, but it certainly doesn't look hard to navigate. Do we really need rules? Just drive your car into the circle and exit on your street, it's not rocket science. I guess the city is afraid that cars will enter the roundabout and get trapped in there, going round in round for hours until they run out of gas.

But I'll be trying the roundabout out this weekend. It should be fun. And to prove how much fun it is I'll be driving around it about 10 times or so, just to test it out. I should get a video of that. But anyway, if you want to give the new roundabout a whirl, the ride opens Sunday after 3pm. Be there or be a square!

Hurry! Hurry! Drive right up and ride the roundabout, fun for all ages.

Honorable Mention?

Well the videos on this blog got mentioned on the PostStar website, YouTube and Glens Falls: They’re all over each other. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

One quote about my latest video says: "Crandall Library is Now Closed in Glens Falls … and mass panic has ensued, which has three minutes, 28 seconds mostly of Doctor72 in his car, showing off his cynicism."

I wouldn't exactly call it cynicism really, I was just stating the fact that the library had closed and I and hundreds of other people had no where to go to sit and read anymore. As for me, I was sitting in my car each day in the park reading, and even though the library is now open again at its new location, I still haven't found a comfortable spot to sit and read, so it's back to the park once more. And also I made reference to the fact that the media was all over the story of the closing of the library like it was the story of the century. But it's still good to get "some kind of mention", honorable or not.

...and those easter travelers turned out to be EVANESCENCE concert goers, my mistake.

Now if you really want cynicism, this is cynicism! ...at its best!

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Tired Of Living In Glens Falls?

Are you tired of living in the Madden Hotel? Are you tired of living in Glens Falls? or are you just tired of living, period? Then maybe this Electric Bath Duck is for you:

I know of a few friends who might like to try this. And then again I had a couple of friends who tried this but I haven't heard back from them yet as to whether or not the electric duck did the trick. Well on second thought, maybe that answers my question.

Is this a joke? Well maybe, or maybe not, in today's world who knows? To be or not to be in Glens Falls, that is the question. Only you can answer it. Please make sure you make the right decision.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Looks like the Big Day is almost upon us once again, with a little more than a month to go. What's the Big Day you may ask? Well you'll have to ask the man in the picture, Hint: He lives at 7 Stevens St Glens Falls. Or you might see him on the streets, riding his bicycle, just stop and ask him, I'm sure he will tell you all about the Big Day!

Since that picture is about a year old, i was thinking about updating it. How about this one instead:

Upcoming Events for May 1

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Al-Anon meeting, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 460 Aviation Road, Queensbury.

American Red Cross blood drive, 1 to 6 p.m., American Legion, 34 West Ave., Saratoga Springs. Information: Dagmar Helenek at 584-3118.

Beginners country line dancing lesson, 12:30 p.m., Moreau Community Center, 144 Main St., South Glens Falls. $5 per lesson. Information: 792-6007.

Bingo, 7:15 to 10 p.m., St. Clement's School, 231 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs. Dinner specials available. Parking and entrance in rear of school.

Catholic Daughters of the Americas Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Knights of Columbus Home, 50 Pine Road, Saratoga Springs. Information: Anne Senecal, 885-0663.

Chestertown Rotary Club meeting, 6 p.m., OP Frederick's Restaurant, Chestertown. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Depression/Anxiety support group, 7 p.m., Pine Knolls Alliance Church, Potter House, 614 Gansevoort Road, South Glens Falls. Information: 793-7101.

Law Day Breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Hiland Park Country Club, Queensbury. Sponsored by the Warren County Bar Association.

Line dance class, new beginners, 1 p.m., intermediate, 2 p.m., Saratoga Springs Senior Center, 5 Williams St. Information: 854-7610, ginnysboots@aol.com.

Meditation group, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Saratoga Springs Public Library, 49 Henry St. Bring pillow or cushion. Free, drop-ins welcome. Information: 581-3180.

Parenting classes 5-weeks, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Whitehall Elementary School. Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Washington County. Information: 746-2560.

Renal Caregiver Support Group, 1 p.m., Glens Falls Hospital Renal Center conference room, 3 Broad St. Information: Trish Adams, 926-3315.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter No. 1159, 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. weigh-in, Adamsville Baptist Church, corner Routes 196 and 43. Information: 747-0392 or 747-7431.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter No. NY208, 6 p.m., United Presbyterian Church meeting hall, River Street, Hudson Falls. Information: Lucy, 747-6064.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, Fellowship Hall, South Glens Falls United Methodist Church, 15 Maplewood Parkway. Information: 695-4298 after 4 p.m., (800) 932-8677 or www.tops.org.

Warren/Washington counties STD and HIV clinic, 6 to 8 p.m., McEchron House, 65 Ridge St., Glens Falls. Information: 761-6580.

Friday, April 27, 2007

The Earl Shewell Collection Is Now Up For Sale!

For those of you who don't know Earl, Earl L. Shewell is the 48 year old man who lives at the flop house on 22 Broad Street, in Glens Falls. He was arrested late Wednesday for fighting with a man on the front porch, and the man fell off the porch and suffered a broken arm and a head injury that required stitches.

Earl was charged with second degree assault a felony, and the misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest when he fought with arresting officers and had to be zapped with the old Taser gun. Earl was sent to Warren County Jail for lack of bail.

Now for those of us who know Earl Shewell, we knew him as the black cowboy hat wearing, dark sunglasses wearing, black socks with sandals wearing, cigar smoking man. But Old Earl won't be needing these items in jail, and besides that he needs the money for bail, and every little bit helps, so...

...for a limited time only, the Earl Shewell Collection is up for sale on eBay! Yep if you act fast, the Earl Shewell Collection can all be yours!

Black Cowboy Hat

Dark Sunglasses

Black Socks

Sandals

Yes now you too can be Earl Shewell. You can run down the street shouting,"Look at me everybody I'm Earl Shewell!" Or something like that.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

David Martell On The Glens Falls Police

A prominent citizen in Glens Falls, speaks out on the Glens Falls Police Department.

Hopefully I can get this guy to do more speaking out on stuff. This guy loves to talk, so maybe I can get him talking and keep him talking, and can start a new series called, David Martell on...

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Your Reprieve Is Almost Here

Yes your reprieve from boredom is almost here. The Crandall Library is going to reopen on Tuesday April 24 After long hours of sitting in the car in Crandall Park reading books, I'll finally be able to sit in the library once again at it's new location.

After mass panic ensued on April 1st when the library closed, our wait is now over. It's been 3 long weeks, but the end is almost here. Besides that I have 2 library books I want to return. One is due next week.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Amy Lee Lip Syncing?

I had made mention in my Video Of Mass Panic! that I had noticed that the traffic in Glens Falls had been increasing, and that video was filmed on Thursday, April 5. So what I thought might have been Easter travelers, was more likely people going to the EVANESCENCE concert at the Glens Falls Civic Center that same night.

And apparently a few people,(check the comments at the bottom of the article), thought Amy Lee was lip syncing

Where the hell did that come from? Nowhere in the article was there any mention of lip syncing, so one can only assume from people who were there, that there was an element of lip syncing going on.

I wasn't there so I don't care, but my point is...

...I have got to start keeping up with current events in Glens Falls, they are so far and few in between, it shouldn't be too hard to do!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Still Don't Get It?

Well don't feel bad, either do I. Kimberly A. Wright, 21, was charged at 12:03 a.m. with, you guessed it, DWI even though her blood-alcohol content was found to be 0.07 percent, below the 0.08 percent threshold for driving while intoxicated.

But she was still charged with DWI based on Glens Falls Police Sgt. John Winchell's observations of her behavior, authorities said.

Not possible you say? Well it's only in Glens Falls Baby!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Video Of Mass Panic!

The video to Mass Panic Ensues!

And the girl used in the video can be found here: Girls Girls Girls, Show Me The Girls!

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

The Shamrock Shake Recipe

I had said that there were No Shamrock Shakes in Glens Falls, and technically that is true, simply because there is no McDonald's here in Glens Falls, but as I was ordering in a nearby McDonald's, I happened to notice that the Shamrock Shake was on the menu. They didn't make any effort to advertise these things this year, I guess they just naturally assumed that people would know about them. Not! I forgot all about them, until I saw a video about them.

Poor advertising on McDonald's part. But what I'm leading up to is this. If you've never tried a Shamrock Shake before, or are simply craving one, the recipe is really simple. I found this copycat recipe.

For one serving:

1 cup vanilla ice cream or soy ice cream
5/8 cup 2% low-fat milk or soy milk
1/8 teaspoon mint extract
4 drops green food coloring

But I've simplified the recipe even further, by using 1 cup of of mint ice cream, and 5/8 cup of milk. And that's it. It's mint flavored and green colored already.

So screw McDonald's and just make the shake yourself. And enjoy it anytime of year, not just on Saint Patrick's Day.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Mass Panic Ensues

Photo by Katie@!

Now that the Crandall Library has closed it's doors for a few weeks, a lot of people are left wondering, what do we do now that the library is closed?

One man was reported as saying,"Every night when I get out of work, I immediately head over to the crandall library for a few hours until closing time. The only other alternative would be to go home to my wife, Agnes."

The reporter said,"Damn! You don't want to do that, man!"

And the man responded as saying, "No I don't want to do that, but what else can I do? What else can I do? I mean I could go to a bar and drink, but Agnes would smell alcohol on my breath, and there would be hell to pay when I got home. She'd accuse me of picking up some floosy in the bar, and she'd never let me hear the end of it."

And the reporter said, "That's a shame. It really is."

One woman was reported as saying, "You know the Crandall library is my only solace from my husband and three kids. Without the library I'd have to go home and make dinner for my family, and then have unfulfilled sex with my husband. But at the library, I can sit for hours and hours, reading sappy romance novels, and when I leave here at 9pm, and go home, my husband is usually asleep and the kids are all in bed. But now, I feel like my whole world is falling apart!"

And the report responded, "I feel your pain ma'am, I feel your pain."

But all hope is not lost however, there are other libraries you can go to, and as soon as I get the hours for each library, I'll be posting them here.

So please, Do not panic! Remain calm! Help is on it's way!