It’s time to give the coveted Silver Shaker award back. My Street Academy trivia team has held the Summer Bowl chalice, the symbol of supremacy in summertime team trivia in the Capital District, for the past year. Now we have to defend this championship against 29 other trivia squads. Trust me. Street Academy will ALWAYS…
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Random Acts of Respect
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the social media site Reddit. Sometimes it’s the greatest place in the world; other times it’s like the bad old days of monitor courage and USEnet sewage. One of the better places on Reddit of late has been the category (or “subreddit”) called Random Acts of Pizza. Here’s how…
Read MoreGet your groove on, Oliver Hardy!
Let’s start the dance. I’ve seen these creative little film clips on YouTube for a while. They feature vintage old movie clips, as synchronized with modern music. I crafted a blog post on this in the past, so here’s another one. You’ve probably seen this one. It’s a clip of Laurel and Hardy from the…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Incident at Fred’s Chasm
“Any word?” “No,” whinnied Cassius Marcellus, the drafthorse who plowed the fields at Indigo Acres, the agrarian section of the afterlife pet waystation known as Collarworld. “I’ve asked around, nobody’s seen her.” “Her” was Butterscotch, a calico cat who battled a crisis of conscience ever since she arrived in the afterworld pet realm. In the…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, July 18, 2013: Ten for Thursday
It’s been an interesting week at the TU blog portal. Apparently somewhere in the blog base, there were sparks in the software, flashing the message, something’s out there… comments lost in the summer sky, 99 luftballoons go by… Anyway, apparently all the blog comments – good comments and spam – ended up in the spam…
Read MoreCaption Time: Two birds in the hand…
Got this picture the other day while walking past the old Branch Office Restaurant in downtown Albany. The restaurant is gone, but there’s still a branch-shaped sign with an “office” engraved on it. On the wooden sign is a wooden blue jay. And on the wooden blue jay… well, it’s another bird. So if a…
Read MoreSummer Bowl IV is next week!
It’s the midsummer classic; the Summer Bowl, the trivia championship that’s held as the Saratoga flat track opens for business. This year, the invite-only tournament will take place at On Tap, the restaurant inside Latham’s Holiday Inn Express, this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Teams will be challenged on twenty different trivia questions of history, pop…
Read MoreCollarworld: Precious’ Path and Butterscotch’s Crisis
Another beautiful day in Collarworld, as the blue sunbeams spread across the sky. Each beloved pet knew that the blue sunbeams meant a new arrival would reach Collarworld that day, and all must gather at the Meeting Place to greet the new visitor. “Come on, Butterscotch,” Vincent the orange tabbycat begged Butterscotch the sullen calico…
Read MoreBeauty in stone and iron
I spent Saturday night in Boston. It was a vacation weekend for me – doing some personal business, some sightseeing, reconnecting with places from my past. Both sides of my family came from Boston – my mother’s side lived in places like Quincy and Abington and Brockton; my father’s side lived in Brookline and West…
Read MoreSaving the childrens’ records
My friend Peter Muldavin is a renowned collector of a very specialized music genre. He has the largest phonograph record collection of children’s music in the world. That’s right. All those little 78’s and 45’s that were originally purchased for kids – he owns them. About ten years ago, I helped him itemize and catalog…
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