It’s not the kind of day I wanted. And I’ve gone through it in my life many times. And when it happens… I can feel death inside me. A cold, shivering, unforgiving death. No matter how many successes I have in my life, no matter how many wonderful moments I’ve achieved, I always dread the…
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Want to sponsor a race car? Sure you do!
It’s Sunday, and you’re sitting at home watching NASCAR races and thinking to yourself, “Man, how cool would that be if I could have my business’s name on the hood of Tony Stewart’s car. That would be awesome.” Well, unfortunately neither you nor I have $20 million for that kind of sponsorship. It’s Saturday night,…
Read MoreA new video game movie starring… er… um…
Four years ago, I came across this little film called “Pixels,” which told a short story of how the 1980’s video game universe would look if it actually attacked New York City. That’s right, Space Invaders and Tetris and Donkey Kong and Pac-Man and the works. Here’s the original blog post. So four years later……
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, February 27 2014: Ten for Thursday
Hi there. If you’ve arrived at this blog via the Times Union’s page in the print edition, then I bid you welcome. Every Thursday, I turn over my blog to showcase ten of the best blog articles and posts from my fellow Times Union community and independent bloggers. I hope you enjoy these blogs, and…
Read More“Amish Mafia” episode review: “He Has Risen”
It’s time once again for a new season of Amish Mafia, another series of episodes with our favorite batch of “plain folk” from Lancaster County, Pa. and Holmes County, Ohio. They’re back, they’re bad and stuff is gonna burn tonight. Two to one odds says Alvin’s going to be doing the burning. Time to put…
Read MoreThe mystery of the antique camera film: the Instamatic mystery
Four years ago, back when this blog was new on the TU blog portal, I found a roll of C-22 127 film in an old Kodak Brownie Super 27 camera. Figured I’d get the film developed and see what was on it. Might even make a blog post out of what I found. Well, I…
Read MoreNBL Canada podcast, with guest star Chuck Miller
I haven’t written about it as much in my blog, but those of you who read my blog with any amount of regularity know that I am a devotee of independent and minor league professional basketball. I started with the Albany Patroons way back in the day, and then moved to working with the Premier…
Read MoreShoelace Repairs
I think I can do this. I just have to find the right ingredient – the right catalyst – the right part of this project that will work best in this situation. Background. A while back, I tried running two rolls of 35mm film in my Agfa Clipper Special f/6.3 camera, which can handle 70mm…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: I forgot about the Bay City Rollers
It’s the late autumn of 1975, and I received a very cool birthday gift from my parents – my own radio. I immediately spun the dial to AM 1540, WPTR – and got hooked on rock and roll. At 9:00 p.m. each night, WPTR would play the top five requested songs. And in the middle…
Read MoreSo “Baa-a-a” really DOES mean no… :)
My girlfriend Nicole showed me this video clip yesterday, and I just couldn’t stop laughing. It’s a YouTube compilation clip that shows goats making funny noises and bleats and grunts and yells, all of which either sound remarkably human in nature, or are just plain funny and silly. And she and I both laughed like…
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