This came up in my Twitter feed last night. First, I’m going to say this. If you have received the COVID-19 vaccine, fantastic. I’m proud of you. If you’ve gotten your booster shot, I’m clapping with both hands. But if you need some … well … coaxing to get the Fauci Ouchie… This might give…
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Chuck’s Top 10 Photos of 2021
And we’ve reached that moment. The time when I go through my archives and pull out the photos that made me smile this year. The ones that received accolades and awards and blog love. There were a few photos that captured the attention of my blog readers, and even some that won silk this year…
Read MoreThe Canadian Pacific Holiday Train 2021 “At Home” concert, watch it here.
There’s still part of me that wishes I could have seen the train as it made its journey through New York. But this will have to be the next best thing. Last Saturday, Canadian Pacific gave us its 2021 Holiday Train “At Home” concert, where the performers gave us a 90-minute show, entertaining us in…
Read MoreSometimes we all need a “good guy” moment. I just received one.
Saturday started out wonderful. And it ended up as one of the worst days of my life. I shall explain that story by telling you another story. Mike Lent was a classmate of mine at Hamilton College, he was an ’86, a year behind me. He was a fun guy, great for conversation, the kind…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 18 2021
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. This is the last weekend before Christmas, so if you’re looking for something to do inbetween wrapping your presents and backing your cookies, then definitely check out the blogs and podcasts and photos from the wonderful people that populate my blogroll. BLOGS FOR TASTE Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,”…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 17, 2021
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 broadcast is the annual Nightowl Radio Show Holiday Spectacular, featuring Christmas and Hanukkah music from all over the world, and from…
Read MoreI see your SOL and raise you a Chuckycoin.
Oh, this is hilarious. Melania Trump, the cross-eyed, raccoon-mascaraed succubus of the former President, is now offering the ultimate in a vanity project. She’s going to sell digital watercolor non-fungible tokens of images of her eyes to willing suckers. Oh, I kid you not. No, seriously. Melania Trump is offering NFT’s of digital watercolor prints…
Read MoreSynchro-Vox: The lips move, but not much else.
Imagine producing an animated children’s TV show in the late 1950’s. You don’t have the same budget to make the theatrical cartoons that Disney and Warner Bros. and MGM had. You have to cut corners. You have to be creative. And from this, I bring you Cambria Studios and their budget-basement invention. Synchro-Vox. Synchro-Vox gave…
Read MoreChugging on the Candy Cane Express…
The last time I visited Santa’s Workshop in the Adirondacks was maybe as a kid. I don’t remember very much about it, maybe I fed a reindeer, maybe I told Santa what I wanted for Christmas, I don’t remember. But upon scouting some images and ideas for future photographic endeavors… I came across this. Santa’s…
Read MoreSo that’s what a ricer does?
So of late, I’ve tried to make scratch-built mashed potatoes. Well, at least “bachelor cooking” mashed potatoes. And I think I found out what I’ve been doing wrong all this time. I’ve nuked potatoes in the microwave and then tried to mash them with a fork. Doesn’t work. I’ve tried roasting tinfoil-wrapped potatoes in the…
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