What’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 22 2025

I know the calendar says spring is here … but the outdoor temperature says winter ain’t leaving any time soon. So I’m staying inside today and putting together today’s weekly blogroll of the great stuff from my fellow bloggers and writers and photographers. Check them out, why don’t you? Have a great weekend, everybody!

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Elon Musk can go jump in a lake.

I have absolutely no use for Elon Musk or for his vastly overpriced, overhyped and shoddily-built Teslas. I’m proud of my hybrid car that was built in America by union men and women and operates on a network that is (thankfully) incompatible with Musk’s Supercharger grid. And my Chevrolet Volt would NEVER be mistaken for…

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“You’re on a 3,000 day streak on Chuck the Writer!” (Well, more than that…)

WordPress has this little quirk where, after I post my daily blog, it’ll send me a message saying that I’m on a very long consecutive posting streak. Yesterday, on March 19, 2025, after I posted my blog updating my progress on the latch hook covered bridge project, WordPress alerted me that I had achieved 3,000…

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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of March 19, 2025

I’m resigned to the fact that I won’t get this monster latch hook project done in time for Competition Season 2025. I’m resigned to it. I didn’t realize that, five months into this artwork, I would only be about one-third of the way complete. Let me explain. When I started this project in October 2024,…

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Speed Racer, the coolest cartoon of all time

NOTE: This article was originally written for Toy Collector Magazine, and was their cover story for their September 2007 issue. Article written by Chuck Miller. Go! Speed Racer Go! Written by Chuck Miller Forty years on, the voices of Speed and Trixie reveal the back story behind the now-classic TV series His skills were unmatched…

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You sell, I buy, I pay, you ship. Not, “You sell, I buy, you tell me it’s shipped, I leave feedback, then you ship.”

My friend Wayne buys and sells postage stamps. He gets some of his product on eBay, as do many other collectors. And usually when one does an eBay transaction, the procedure is as such. If you win an action, then you pay for the item. Once the item is purchased and funds are verified by…

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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 15 2025

Hi everybody, and welcome to my blog’s Saturday blogroll recap. For those of you who have just discovered this blog (which has been around in various iterations since 2009), on Saturdays I take a break from sharing my thoughts, and instead share the thoughts of my friends on my personal blogroll. I hope you enjoy…

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The NY Phoenix draw first blood in the Route 5 Rivalry, beating Albany 129-113

What a contest. With a capacity crowd of 1400 jammed into Armory Studios NY, the New York Phoenix took the first victory in the Route 5 Rivalry, as three members of the Schenectady crew – Shadell Millinghaus, AJ Mosby and Paul Parks – scored 20+ points in a 129-113 win over the Albany Patroons. The…

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The Route 5 Rivalry begins TONIGHT for the Albany Patroons and NY Phoenix!

The Albany Patroons are 3-0 on this young TBL season, having claimed victories in their three home games, to remain tied atop the TBL’s North Atlantic division. At the same time, the New York Phoenix, the expansion team in Schenectady with a ton of Albany Patroons heritage and legacy, has jumped out to a 2-0…

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