Chris Rooney
@cjriii.bsky.social
Recovering news nerd. Lover of baseball and the Adirondacks. Sci-fi/comic book geek. Occasional singer. No matter where you go, there you are. Opinions are my own. (he/him)
Even the Apple Sports app ran off the field too soon.
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Even the Apple Sports app ran off the field too soon.
Soggy day at the Waterford Tugboat Roundup.
September 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Soggy day at the Waterford Tugboat Roundup.
Dramatic lighting making me look important!
Do you know what this lighting technique is called?
Catch the next Virtual Gaffing presentation at Trekonderoga with Kent Schmidt to find out!
📷 Chris Rooney
#StarTrek #StarTrekSetTour #SetTour #TheOriginalSeries #TOS #Ticonderoga
Catch the next Virtual Gaffing presentation at Trekonderoga with Kent Schmidt to find out!
📷 Chris Rooney
#StarTrek #StarTrekSetTour #SetTour #TheOriginalSeries #TOS #Ticonderoga
September 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dramatic lighting making me look important!
❤️🐾 We said goodbye to our Benny today. He was our mountain climbing schnauzer who accompanied us on many a hike. We had him the longest of all of our dogs. He was smart, loving, and an excellent dog brother. Benny, enjoy chasing all of the ice cubes sliding across the floor in heaven!
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
❤️🐾 We said goodbye to our Benny today. He was our mountain climbing schnauzer who accompanied us on many a hike. We had him the longest of all of our dogs. He was smart, loving, and an excellent dog brother. Benny, enjoy chasing all of the ice cubes sliding across the floor in heaven!
The Sacandaga River in the Adirondacks
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Sacandaga River in the Adirondacks
Reposted by Chris Rooney
“That’s what ‘The Bear’ is really about: How do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far? The answer we ultimately get is that we can’t. We can’t sustain a community when the pain grows too great,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | The Raw Power of Repentance
“The Bear” asks the question, how do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far?
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July 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“That’s what ‘The Bear’ is really about: How do we live together when someone always seems to be going too far? The answer we ultimately get is that we can’t. We can’t sustain a community when the pain grows too great,” our columnist David French writes.
Reposted by Chris Rooney
Welcome to baseball immortality, CC Sabathia.
July 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Welcome to baseball immortality, CC Sabathia.
Happy Superman Release Day to all who celebrate!
a man in a red cape is standing in front of a body of water .
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media.tenor.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Happy Superman Release Day to all who celebrate!
Spent Fourth of July rocking out on the Empire State Plaza with Rock Voices 🎶🎤🇺🇸
July 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Spent Fourth of July rocking out on the Empire State Plaza with Rock Voices 🎶🎤🇺🇸
Jim Shooter, who passed away yesterday at age 73, wrote this interaction between Reed Richards and Iron Man (James “Rhodey” Rhodes filling in for Tony Stark) in Secret Wars #8 back in 1984. It always stuck with me.
July 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Jim Shooter, who passed away yesterday at age 73, wrote this interaction between Reed Richards and Iron Man (James “Rhodey” Rhodes filling in for Tony Stark) in Secret Wars #8 back in 1984. It always stuck with me.
Fireflies or lightning bugs?
June 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Fireflies or lightning bugs?
What do you call a graphic novel if it’s non-fiction?
June 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What do you call a graphic novel if it’s non-fiction?
I’m a little late to the party. It took me 25 years, but I finally got around to reading Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” This book is brilliant.
June 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’m a little late to the party. It took me 25 years, but I finally got around to reading Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” This book is brilliant.
The was the hot toy in 1978! Although the action figures of Han and Luke in stormtrooper armor are fiction. I remember really wishing Kenner made figures like those. They eventually did make them, but not until long after my action figure collecting days were over.
May 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The was the hot toy in 1978! Although the action figures of Han and Luke in stormtrooper armor are fiction. I remember really wishing Kenner made figures like those. They eventually did make them, but not until long after my action figure collecting days were over.
We did the Champlain Area Trails Grand Hike today. The full hike is about 16 miles, but if you take advantage of a few shortcuts (which we did) the route is cut to a still-respectable 8.62 miles. The rain stopped just in time for the hike to begin. The temperature was perfect. Best of all—no bugs!
May 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We did the Champlain Area Trails Grand Hike today. The full hike is about 16 miles, but if you take advantage of a few shortcuts (which we did) the route is cut to a still-respectable 8.62 miles. The rain stopped just in time for the hike to begin. The temperature was perfect. Best of all—no bugs!
If you told me I’d one day I’d be singing Led Zeppelin on stage at the Egg Performing Arts Center, I never would’ve believed it. Can’t wait to get started on our next Rock Voices season — all one-hit wonders!
📷: Best Frame Forward
📷: Best Frame Forward
May 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you told me I’d one day I’d be singing Led Zeppelin on stage at the Egg Performing Arts Center, I never would’ve believed it. Can’t wait to get started on our next Rock Voices season — all one-hit wonders!
📷: Best Frame Forward
📷: Best Frame Forward
Pulled this CD out for the first listen in years and years
May 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Pulled this CD out for the first listen in years and years
2️⃣ WEEKS FROM TODAY! 🎫: www.theegg.org/events/event...
April 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
2️⃣ WEEKS FROM TODAY! 🎫: www.theegg.org/events/event...
This was my favorite Schoolhouse Rock episode
This is how those of us of a certain age first learned about April 19, 1775.
Still inspires.
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Still inspires.
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School House Rock Shot Heard Round the World America Rock
YouTube video by Dr. Gerard Jabbow
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April 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This was my favorite Schoolhouse Rock episode
Perhaps the version of the #FantasticFour that will appear on movie screens this summer originates in the “Timely Cinematic Universe” before moving to the #MCU
April 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Perhaps the version of the #FantasticFour that will appear on movie screens this summer originates in the “Timely Cinematic Universe” before moving to the #MCU
Reposted by Chris Rooney
Billy Joel gets his first Top 40 hit today in 1974 with “Piano Man”.
“I have no idea why that song became so popular,” he said years later. “I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit. But my songs are like my kids, and I look at that song and think: 'My kid did pretty well.'"
“I have no idea why that song became so popular,” he said years later. “I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit. But my songs are like my kids, and I look at that song and think: 'My kid did pretty well.'"
April 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Billy Joel gets his first Top 40 hit today in 1974 with “Piano Man”.
“I have no idea why that song became so popular,” he said years later. “I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit. But my songs are like my kids, and I look at that song and think: 'My kid did pretty well.'"
“I have no idea why that song became so popular,” he said years later. “I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit. But my songs are like my kids, and I look at that song and think: 'My kid did pretty well.'"
Need help, internet. We recently set up this combo record player/CD player/tape deck/radio that once belonged to my in-laws. It’s fun spinning vinyl again. But the CD player doesn’t work. When you insert a disc, it spins for a while and then reads “00” tracks. If you press play, nothing happens. 1/2
April 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Need help, internet. We recently set up this combo record player/CD player/tape deck/radio that once belonged to my in-laws. It’s fun spinning vinyl again. But the CD player doesn’t work. When you insert a disc, it spins for a while and then reads “00” tracks. If you press play, nothing happens. 1/2