Lillian Tillman-DeWitt was my high school principal, and she was one of the guiding angels who helped me get from the level of troubled youth to determined survivor.ย We kept in touch when I was in college, when I came back from college, and off and on through the years. When I told her in…
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Goodbye Doc Williams.
The country music world recently lost a fantastic performer and musical legend. On January 31, 2011, Doc Williams, one of the last old-time country music singer-songwriters, passed away at the age of 96. Doc Williams was one of the stars of early country music, and he performed for several decades in Wheeling, West Virginia as…
Read More“It’s the Albany City School District, may I please speak with Chuck Miller?”
My cell phone rang.ย Normally, I can tell who’s calling by the use of specific ring tones – for example, if it’s my daughter Cassaundra, my phone will play the intro from the Motown-esque Annie Golden hit “Hang Up the Phone” (although I have threatened to replace that with the intro to “Like a G6”…
Read MoreChuck Miller’s Round Table: Featuring Speed Racer, Boo Boo Bear and Jem of the Holograms
In the past, I’ve authored several magazine columns on subjects ranging from 45 RPM records to the activities of hockey booster clubs.ย One column, however, only lasted a single showing – and that was because the magazine in which it was published folded like a cheap suit. Background. In the early 1990’s, I wrote for…
Read MoreWeek 1 of the 2011 Elbo Room Spring Trivia Tournament
Birds flying high You know how I feel Sun in the sky You know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by You know how I feel It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life For me And I’m feeling good (CUE HORNS AND ORCHESTRA!!) That’s right. I’m treating this tournament as…
Read MoreThe ten worst superhero TV shows of all time
Let me state for the record. I am a major fan of superhero drama shows. Whether the shows are a retelling of the Les Miserables / Fugitive “man on the run” ethos (The Incredible Hulk) or just plain campy fun (the 1960’s Batman series), I do enjoy watching some costumed do-gooders battle the bad guys.…
Read MoreThe Earliest Memory
We don’t remember the moment we came out of the womb.ย At that point in our life, our brain hasn’t completely grasped the concept of air and light and time and cold.ย All we can grasp is the feeling of existence. We learn and we grow.ย And somewhere, maybe around the age of two or…
Read MoreCaptain Power and the Soldiers of the Future – a failed attempt at interactive television
I don’t know what it is about science fiction shows that causes their fans to go absolutely nuts when the show’s low ratings doom it to cancellation. The networks put the program in a bad timeslot, they cry. The story was just getting good, they moan. We at least deserve a full-length movie to wrap…
Read MoreIf you have kids, please attend the March 15th conference on preventing cyberbullying
I’m writing this blog post today because I’ve seen it happen too many times in our modern technological society. Once upon a time, if you didn’t like someone, you wrote their name on the bathroom wall in school – so-and-so is a slut, so-and-so is gay, filthy concepts in a filthy stall. Then came the…
Read MoreAn Albany Cookbook from the 1960’s
While clearing out some boxes of old junk, I came across this vintage cookbook.ย It may have been printed in the mid-1960’s or early 1970’s, and it was produced by an organization called the Albany County Home Bureau. Okay, this caught my attention. The spiral-bound cookbook featured dozens of recipes from Capital District homemakers and…
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