Yesterday evening, I attended a special Capital Region blog community get-together.ย Sponsored by the Times-Union, it featured dozens of bloggers and online commentators throughout the Capital Region and beyond. While the event was predominantly focused on the meaning of blogging as part of the “new conversation,” I looked at it more as a chance to…
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The re-re-return of Max Headroom
One of my favorite TV shows of all time was the early cyberpunk science-fiction series Max Headroom.ย For those of you with faded memories of the 1980’s, you might recall an iconic image of a computer-generated sunglasses-wearing head, spouting off non-sequiturs and funny observations.ย That was Max Headroom. From 1987 to 1988, ABC aired a…
Read MoreThe return of the Boats and Garden Hoses
When I played trivia at Brown’s years ago, there were several dominant trivia teams.ย One of the more memorable trivia teams was a squad who took their name from an iconic scene in the Will Ferrell movie “Step Brothers,” where Ferrell and John C. McGinley make a music video called “Boats n’ Hoes.”ย I’d link…
Read MorePlagiarize, Plagiarize, let no one else’s work evade your eyes…
Just so you know, that opening line was from a famous Tom Lehrer song, “Lobachevsky” – a song about mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.ย I am never forget the day… Anyways, I cite the source above because of this. Zachery Kouwe, a reporter for the New York Times, was caught quoting from sources without proper acknowledgment…
Read MoreThe Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry are Trying to Kill Me
Last night I was in Rockville, Maryland, for a Premier Basketball League game between the Lawton-Fort Sill (Okla.) Cavalry and the Maryland GreenHawks.ย Very competitive game, both teams had the lead at one point or another before the Cavs pulled ahead and won 105-99.ย The game also had a decent Albany Patroons alumni factor, as…
Read MoreThe Mystery of the Antique Camera Film
February 21.ย I’m in Manchester, New Hampshire, killing time before a late afternoon Premier Basketball League game between the Manchester Millrats and the Capitanes de Puerto Rico (which Puerto Rico won in very convincing fashion).ย Looking for something to keep me entertained for an hour or so before the game began, I came across the…
Read MoreWeek 2 of the Elbo Room 2010 Trivia Tournament
Looks like things are picking up for the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament.ย Tres Hombres, a “legacy” team who have played at various other Elbo Room tournaments, braved the rainy weather to arrive at the restaurant for the game.ย And after one week, Mayhem – who rebranded themselves as Wehrmacht last week – are now calling…
Read MoreAlbums I Want to Be Buried With: Dragon, “Body and the Beat”
Unless you’re from Australia or New Zealand, you’ve likely never heard of the rock band Dragon.ย And you would be sorely deprived from this loss. Dragon was one of Oceania’s most popular rock bands; they evolved from a prog-rock group into a solid core of dedicated tunesmiths; they broke up, they reunited, had more monster…
Read MoreRemembering wrestling announcer Joe McHugh
Ah, weekend professional wrestling.ย Fun stuff.ย When I was growing up, it aired at 11:00 a.m. or 12 noon on WRGB, most often on Saturday or Sunday.ย ย I started watching pro wrestling in the early 1970’s, when the brand of wrestling provided in upstate New York was the World Wide Wrestling Federation (what we know…
Read MoreReturning to Brown’s for Monday Night Trivia
It’s almost as if I never left. The Taproom at Troy’s Brown’s Brewing last night was as packed with hungry and satisfied customers.ย I went over to the hostess station and, almost from memory, requested my reserved Table #21 upstairs for trivia. Yep.ย Trivia was back at Brown’s Brewing, nearly six months after the last…
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