Man, oh man, it’s gotten to the point where people start whining about everything in a Super Bowl. Or they’re looking for trains that aren’t even on the schedule. Case in point. Lauren Boebert groused about Sheryl Lee Ralph’s powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” because Boebert had a problem with what she…
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So that’s what custom car mats look like.
So the mats finally arrived. Background. A month or so ago, I cashed in a ton of GM loyalty points on a set of branded floor mats. They would replace the stock rubber floor mats in my Chevrolet Volt, and would make my car look even nicer. It just took a while for them to…
Read MoreThe Results of Trivia Bowl XVIII.
The final question involved the category of “Up in Smoke.” My Street Academy trivia team had 125 points, tied for 10th place among 30 different teams. We were 17 points away from the lead, but needed a lot of luck to claim the big prize. We went all in. “In what year did Colorado and…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 11 2023.
I’ve got a lot of chores this morning. My framed artwork We Serve Wayward Strangers has to be shipped to the downstate gallery in time for the piece’s appearance at the gallery’s photo exhibition. I’ve also got Trivia Bowl XVIII this afternoon, so preparations must be made for that. Oh yeah, and at some point…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 10, 2023
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show features a tribute to the recently-passed Burt Bacharach, with a three-song mini-marathon of his classics. I also dusted off the…
Read More“Shake the hand of a brand new fool.”
Over and over. Those eight words kept rumbling in my brain last night. Over and over. Every time I thought I could fall asleep … those eight words pulled me out of Slumberland Highway and parked me on a park bench. Background. Earlier in the day, while listening to one of my streaming audio channels…
Read More3 x 6 = 18. Trivia Bowl 18, that is.
I’m going back into competition this Saturday. The top trivia company in the Capital District, Trivia Nights Live, has returned with their annual “Trivia Bowl” competition. The event, to be held at the Ancient Order of Hibernians building in Albany, will feature the top teams of trivia experts in a fun game of remembering useless…
Read MoreCan you file your taxes for free in New York? Maybe.
Background. One of the only things I kept after my 2011 divorce (besides the television) was our tax preparer. He was a friend of the family, and he worked very hard to make sure we paid our fair share to the government and, when possible, received our fair share back. I continued to employ his…
Read MoreIt’s paid off.
In December 2021, Verizon bricked my BlackBerry KEYone cell phone when they shut off their 3G network and didn’t make their 5G network backwards-compatible. Ugh. I was forced to scrounge up a suitable replacement, which to me was a Google Pixel 6 Pro camera with as many bells and whistles as I could pack. At…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: What’s that in the air?
Ever since I’ve gone back to my Friday night radio broadcasts on WHCL, I haven’t really had time to produce a K-Chuck Radio blog post that wouldn’t also work well as its own Nightowl Radio Show episode. But with all the drama about the Chinese spy balloon that was intercepted and shot down yesterday ……
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