52 years ago. 52 years and it still catches me every time. On February 20, 1970, I lost my three-year-old baby brother Allen in a single-car crash in Rensselaer County. I blogged about it twelve years ago, and eleven years ago I blogged about providing the proper respect. I’m not going to lie. In an…
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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 19 2022
Before I start this week’s recap of blogs and photographs from my personal blogroll, I’d like to ask you all to do something special for a good friend of mine. Former local news reporter and all-around good guy Ken Screven recently suffered a bad fall, and after time recuperating at a facility in Gloversville, he’s…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 18, 2022
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. A majority of these tracks were regional hits, or hits in other countries that just never broke through on the national American…
Read MoreThe scammer who didn’t know where I was, but knew how to contact me.
I swear, these scammers and spambots and griefers are just flailing. Their goal is to try to get me to click on one of their scummy links, which in turn might infect my phone or my computer with malware or ransomware. Case in point. Last Wednesday – February 16 – I received a curious text…
Read MoreSo a sports broadcaster, a New York Governor, a drug manufacturer and an Australian prime minister walk into a room…
If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m having a ton of fun with my return to college radio. WHCL-FM, Clinton, New York. 88.7, whcl.org on good solid streaming devices and web browsers. And inbetween visiting sites like fiverr and asking broadcasting friends to help me create “bumpers” that can be played between songs, I’ve used…
Read MoreHukked on Fonix wurkz fuh mee.
My blog has a “Contact Chuck Miller” link, where I often receive messages from people about my blog, or who want to contact me personally. I get that. It’s all good. Unfortunately, the “Contact Chuck Miller” link also draws a considerable amount of spam and scammers and salebots. Example – some time ago, someone used…
Read MoreA Photo a Day for 2022
It’s mid-February, and I’m still doing it. I felt like going through my available archives, and revisiting all the photos I’ve taken over the years. In many cases, I’ve pulled the only surviving copies of these photos out of my flickr account, or from photos that were saved when I sent images for printing to…
Read MoreNever trust a Prime Minister who has a ukulele.
Longtime readers of my blog know that I am a huge long-time fan of the New Zealand-born rock band Dragon. I discovered them back in college, when I received a cassette with some of their biggest Australian and New Zealand hits. At the time, I played Dragon music on my college radio show so many…
Read MoreOnwardMobility: The Definition of Vaporware
God damn it, I got fooled. All us former BlackBerry users got fooled. We were fooled by a big promise from a company that had no plans on fulfilling their promise. Shame on us. Background. About two years ago, BlackBerry announced that their license with Chinese phone company TCL would cease, meaning that the Key…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 12 2022
Yep, it’s Valentine’s Day weekend. So as long as you have all your gifts and flowers and candy and jewelry ready … then you’re good to go. And if not … well, there’s always that old adage. “if your heart // is broken in two // mend your heart // with Krazy Glue.” Don’t laugh.…
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