What’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 12, 2020

Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. So, tonight, I’ll be watching the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train as it travels through my computer laptop, on its way to the stage for its holiday concert. The event is available to stream for free on Canadian Pacific’s Facebook page, beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 PM Pacific. Five…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 11, 2020

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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Genre Label 8:01 PM Adriano Celentano Prisencolinensinainciusol Pop Universal Music Italia srL. 8:06 PM G’Race Manhattan Pop YAYA 8:08…

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Nigella Lawson can call it whatever she wants.

A couple of days ago, TV chef Nigella Lawson was demonstrating one of her new recipes for one of her new TV shows, when she discussed the procedure she used to warm her milk. Yep, she called it the MEE-cro-wah-vay. And Twitter went nuts. Oh, sweet Lord, does Nigella Lawson not know what a microwave…

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K-Chuck Radio: When I flipped the disc.

This is a story that begins in the Chestnut Prison. The Chestnut Prison was my existence at 606 Chestnut Street in Abington, Massachusetts, where I spent the summer and fall of 1978 living with my father and stepmother, in an effort to get away from the toxic and poisonous home life of my mother and…

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Could the new Spider-Man movie bring all the Spider-Men together?

Okay, follow me on this. In 2002, Sony Pictures – who currently holds the rights to Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, as well as all associated characters, released a blockbuster motion picture. It starred Tobey Maguire as the web-slinger, against Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin. A few years later, the even more popular Spider-Man 2 came…

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Willingly watch a Lifetime movie? Are you out of your clucking mind?

It is a very, very rare moment when I will willingly sit in front of the TV set and watch a Lifetime motion picture. And by “willingly,” I mean by myself, with no one else in the room. Now, in the past, I have chosen to watch a Lifetime film. The biography of the Clark…

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Ah, Spectrum, you never cease.

I was working on a project yesterday, in which I needed a solid, well-defined communicative link between myself and an online entity. Normally these projects are easy to accomplish and complete. This time, however, it seemed that there was a massive lag. And that lag was taking me longer to complete the online task. Ugh.…

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