Author Archives: John

In the Summer of 1984 it seemed to me that it had been too long since loud noises and laughter had come from the end of Main Street in Rochester where the Past Time was. I had driven by the … Continue reading →

This rerun of a vocational guidance film is funny but troubling.  It’s funny for all the over dramatic, predictable, sexist, reasons that almost any older film is a chuckle.

David was colorful.  He was kind.  He was inventive.  He enjoyed the humor in everything that was around him.  He grew up in Pawtucket, RI, a place that he, (and everyone I’ve encountered from there), pronounced with a truly unique … Continue reading →

It’s likely that when others look back on their college campus, the classrooms and the stairs and hallways, their first thought probably isn’t the smell.  But at RIT two competing odors from two critical graphic arts processes moved from opposite … Continue reading →

Odd thing about the downtown campus of RIT, each year students in the third ward would return a few days or even weeks early.  Granted, it was a way to make your rented apartment inhabitable, but mostly it was to … Continue reading →

RIT had an active Greek community with old school toga parties and pledges wearing beanies.  Road trips to other other campuses in New York and Ohio made “National Lampoon’s Animal House” seem more like a documentary than a work of … Continue reading →

The 1960’s represented a decade of remarkable change for anyone alive at the time but for a fortunate few the opportunity to come of age together in a college environment, in a downtown campus, was amazing.  Rochester Institute of Technology … Continue reading →