Preparations are set. My 2013 Chevrolet Cruze “Dracourage” is filled with a full tank of gas. My satellite radio station is cued up to SiriusXM’s “Holly” channel, so I can stream tons of holiday music on my travels. I’ve got my Equinox baseball cap, and a fresh clean face mask for COVID-19 safety. Oh, and…
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The catfished fan and the sucker-punched wrestler.
The interactions between pro wrestling fans and pro wrestlers is equal parts close and distant. When wrestlers compete in an arena, fans are encouraged to cheer or boo, to bring signs and take photos. What they’re not encouraged to do, however, is jump the guardrails and try to attack a wrestler, or to interfere in…
Read MoreThe Emergency Driver for Equinox 2021
Long-time readers of my blog know that around this time of year, I volunteer as a driver for the local Equinox charity. In other words, I deliver tasty Thanksgiving dinners to those in need, whether they be in the inner cities or in the hill towns. This is what I do. It’s who I am.…
Read MoreWhy I need to edit Arlo Guthrie this Friday night.
I’ve had my “Chuck returns to college radio” stint for the past 18 months, and it’s been a total blast. The return of the Nightowl Radio Show is a chance to return to one of my “happy places” in college life – a place where I felt like I wasn’t an outsider or an outcast…
Read MoreThe Lunar Eclipse and Barnyard Expletives
There are moments in our lives where we plan things out, bit by bit, piece by piece, frame by frame. We plan these things out. We account for all possible variables. We keep a spare tire in our car just in case we develop a flat. We keep three cans of Spam in the cupboard…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 20 2021
It’s Saturday, and you know what that means. Get up, have a cup of coffee and a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, and check through the posts from my personal blogroll. These are the writers, photographers and podcasters whose thoughts and opinions and ideas are worth your time. Please take a read. BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for November 19, 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. Time Artist Song Release 7:01 PM Automatic Man My Pearl Automatic Man 7:07 PM The Limits What You Do (I Get Excited)…
Read MoreWait, Shipping Wars is coming back?
For a while, the A&E network had a series of slice-of-life reality shows that were, by its very existence, quite popular for a time. There was Storage Wars, where people would bid on the contents of storage lockers (which expanded into Storage Wars: Texas and Storage Wars: New York and a few other international editions).…
Read MoreIt’s looking like North Hudson on Thursday night / Friday morning.
I get one shot at this. One shot. And I have to get this correct. No do-overs. So here’s the plan. The 2021 lunar eclipse will appear on the evening of November 18, 2021, and into the morning of November 19, 2021. The prenumbral eclipse starts at 1:02 a.m., with the partial eclipse beginning at…
Read MoreBreak out the ambient rock tracks and the heart-pulling Christmas commercials.
I guess there’s such a thing as “new holiday tradition,” as our Christmases are now filled with 117 new Hallmark movies (60 of them starring Candace Cameron Bure and 57 of them starring Lacey Chabert), the incessant every-hour-on-the-hour of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” and the manipulation of children by their…
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