A few weeks ago, when I ordered some boutique food online (by “boutique” I mean some Pennsylvania Dutch meats and cheeses), I needed to purchase one more item for free shipping. Well, I already ordered some of the company’s breakfast sausages, and there was an offer for what looked like a weirdly-shaped cast iron pan.…
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The Quiz With Balls is the stupidest game show I’ve ever seen. Ever. Seen.
I love game shows and quiz shows. When done right, they’re entertaining and a great view. When done poorly … well … you know. At one point, I thought one of the worst game shows ever created was the American version of the Japanese game show Hole In The Wall. Trust me, I blogged about…
Read MoreBut I DID follow the rules, Hatchet Hardware!
Look, if I start writing about how the Albany Patroons coughed up a 10-point lead in Game 3 of the best-of-three game series with Raleigh and lost the game 97-94 AND got eliminated from the TBL playoffs, I’ll be a very depressed person. So I’m not going to talk about that. I’m going to talk…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Chicken Friccasee
I recently won a cast iron Dutch oven at the local casino – well, “won” in that I had to play to earn 75 casino points, which qualified me to RECEIVE the Dutch oven (oh, and I won $400 on one of the slot machines, so there’s that). So I tried to make something with…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 8 2024
I hope everybody has a fantastic weekend. Today’s going to be a good day for me; a little gardening and horticulture with the girlfriend this morning, then I get to watch the Albany Patroons knock Raleigh out of the playoffs. You all can have the Celtics and the Mavericks; I’ll take Albany’s finest and some…
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(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 7, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, a rebroadcast from June 22, 2022, is a special challenge episode. Every song on this hour’s broadcast either got its…
Read MoreWelp, there goes my Belmont-at-Saratoga photo shoot this weekend.
My initial plan was to photograph during the Saratoga Race Course “Belmont” weekend (the track is hosting the Belmont Stakes and a few other days of racing while the Belmont track in New York undergoes renovations). I figured I do what I always do when the thoroughbreds race at Saratoga in August – bring my…
Read MoreBritish teenage dancers from 1971 trying to boogie to “Sugar Sugar”
If that headline doesn’t catch your attention, I have no hope for you. But on occasion, when I’m in a bit of a creative funk, or I need to understand that not every person on a dance show has the skills of someone who just finished a three-month run in a summer stock production of…
Read MoreWhen they say, “Get on the Trump Train,” I don’t think this is what they meant.
Even though I have absolutely no room in my home to set up a model railroad layout, I do have some rolling stock in my possession – it’s MTH’s Canadian Pacific Holiday Train O-gauge railroad set (the locomotive, four box cars and a stage car). I acquired the stage car from a merchant named Pat’s…
Read MoreA repainted drive-in speaker in 24 hours or less
So I still have a few drive-in speakers around the place, and I’m feeling the itch to refinish and restore another one. Besides, I need some blog content. And I also need some video content, so I’m actually filming the restoration on this unit. This is a Projected Sound unit, manufactured in Plainfield, New Jersey,…
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