I got experimental, I got traditional, I traveled great distances and I shot photos in my neighborhood.โSome of the photos picked up awards, some of them are scheduled for next year, and some are just award-winners in my heart.โ So here are ten of my best photos that were captured in this calendar year. I…
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The Albany Patroons announce their 2024 TBL schedule. Clear my calendar.
I’m ready for this.โAnd you should be as well. The Albany Patroons, the best local professional sports team in the Capital District bar none, have just announced their upcoming home and away schedule for the 2024 TBL season.โIt’s posted below. And there’s a lot to unpack here.โThe season starts on March 1st when the Patroons…
Read MoreChuck’s Best Blog Posts of 2023
It’s time for me to sit back, review my entire 2023 output, and see what blog posts I feel really stood out for the year.โThere were some great ones, there were some personal ones … but they were all part of what made this blog post what it is.โAnd here we go. That’s a pretty…
Read MoreThe recovery from early 2009
On a cloudy Saturday in May 2009, I took my new-to-me Nikon D700 camera for a little photo walk around the Capital District.โAnd the photo walk included a few shots at an old building that no longer exists today. Recognize this structure? Yep, that is the old First Prize slaughterhouse and meat packing plant on…
Read MoreHey, remember Heather Kovar?
It was all over last year’s news.โWRGB anchor Heather Kovar did a broadcast that – well – wasn’t really one of the best out there.โAnd social media shredded her like government documents.โ I blogged about it back then. And I wondered … after all that … whatever happened to Heather Kovar? I can tell you.โShe’s…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 16 2023
Good morning everybody, I hope all of you got your holiday shopping done – there’s no reason to head out on the final Christmas weekend to fight someone else for that last $200 flatscreen on the wall, right?โ Well, if you DO have to take a break to deal with the world … you couldn’t…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 15, 2023
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. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreLady Ballers is the worst sports movie ever. Heck, it’s the worst MOVIE ever.
Many years ago, there was a Hollywood film called Juwanna Mann, a comedy about an NBA washout who tries to rejuvenate his career by dressing in women’s clothes sand joining the WNBA.โIt was about as funny as a fart in church. I wrote about Juwanna Mann last year as part of a larger blog piece…
Read MoreThe Self-Destruction of Cait Corrain
Cait Corrain was on top of the world. Her debut novel, A Crown of Starlight, was scheduled to be published by Del Rey Books. It would receive national distribution and appear as a featured text in several subscription book clubs. And in the span of 48 hours, the book and its author was dropped by…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: The Snow Fort of St. Timothy
NOTE: To read Chuck Miller’s book “The Robins of Iverhill: A Minor League Fairy Tale,” as well as the short stories in the “Christmas in Iverhill” series, visit this link. Monday, December 24th, 1973. Port’s alarm clock rang at 8:00 a.m., with that same bang-bang-bang bell-ringing that married 8:00 a.m. to the end of sleep. …
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