Although fifth place in the standings is a nice accomplishment, it doesn’t make me feel secure. Mathematically, the Street Academy trivia team needs to secure at least a five point gap over whichever team is in eighth place, just for insurance purposes. Only the top eight teams can play for the big bucks – $2,000…
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Rest in peace, John Strickland.
The first time I saw John Strickland play, he was part of a travel team that came up to Albany in the winter of 2006, to play the Patroons in an exhibition game.ย The Patroons dominated the contest, but during the game John Strickland did show some great defensive moves and an ability to frustrate…
Read MoreTen Great “Filmation” Shows
If you’re a fan of classic Saturday morning kids’ fare, you know that there were several production companies filling the networks with Saturday morning animated and live-action programs. And if I rattled those names off right now, you’d remember your favorite shows as produced by those production companies. Of course, Hanna-Barbera was the top Saturday…
Read MoreWhat if the Beatles were on Motown Records?
Bruce Spizer is a very good friend of mine, and he’s written several highly-detailed coffee-table books on the history of the Beatles’ American-released recordings.ย They’re quite good and very informative.ย You can order copies of them through his website. He also enjoys playing a type of “What If…” game with the Beatles.ย Such as, “What…
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Found this slide while going through an old carousel of 35mm slides from the 1964 New York World’s Fair.ย It needs a caption.ย Anybody?
Read MoreYour betting sheet for the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Laugh if you want, but five of these fifteen performing acts will be in the Class of 2011 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Your potential inductees are, in alphabetical order: The Beastie Boys Bon Jovi Chic Alice Cooper Neil Diamond Dr. John Donovan J. Geils Band LL Cool J Darlene Love Laura…
Read MoreThe worst game show to ever air on FOX is coming back???
Sometimes the FOX network puts a show on TV and it just stinks up the channel.ย Sometimes the shows get fewer viewers than an Albany City School District board meeting.ย For every “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader” or “Don’t Forget the Lyrics,” there have been some “which moron green-lighted this program” fare, including:…
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That’s where I’m located.ย Me and eventually 999,999 other people.ย In fact, you can see me here. This is part of a new book called “One Million People,” and it’s an upcoming book which will feature the pictures of one million people in our current digital world. This is the brainchild of Alex Tew, who…
Read MoreMockingbird Marathon: Buying my copy of the book
So I’m getting ready for the November 6th “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill A Saturday” fundraiser, in which a public reading of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will take place to benefit the Literacy Volunteers of the Greater Capital Region. Since I’m one of the readers for the event, it pretty much behooved me to actually go…
Read MoreA Prayer for Tyler Clementi
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I still can’t stop thinking about this horrible story.ย I’ve been sick over it for the past day or two. An 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University killed himself.ย Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge.ย His body was recovered last Wednesday. And we instantly found out that he…
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