I grew up with a comic book collection. My tastes gravitated toward Marvel’s lineup of comics – mostly Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk and the like. But I did have an appreciation for DC’s comics, including Green Lantern and The Flash and a few others. And, of course, I appreciated one of…
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Remembering AM 1540, WPTR
You might not know this, but radio station WPTR is gone again. If I were to say this to anybody under the age of 25, I would assuredly receive some glassy-eyed stare about “WPT-wha-a-a?” And I would suspect there might be an equal amount of readers who will say to me, “Chuck, when did it…
Read MoreNational Sorry Day
Imagine if there was a national holiday in which you actually went up to your neighbor, to your co-worker, and apologized for the transgressions of the past. Trust me. Such a national holiday exists. I wouldn’t exactly call it a holiday, it’s not like Christmas or Easter – but it does involve healing and patience…
Read MoreWhen I recycle a blog post… I REALLY recycle a blog post.
Some bloggers, when they can’t think of a new idea for a new blog post, or they don’t feel like writing one, simply go back to their archives, pull out an old blog post from last year or two years ago, change the publication date, and voila – instant blog post. Before anybody says, “Hey…
Read MoreIn Praise of the Poky Little Puppy and What-A-Jolly Street
Sometimes, the simplest of texts are indeed the best of texts. Jason Purvis penned this blog post, asking people about what would be the most appropriate and enjoyable children’s books. And for the love of me, the only book I could recall reading over and over again, and essentially begging my mother to read to…
Read MoreThingamajigdoodadknicknack whatever you need… Schatz!
Thought you’d get a kick out of seeing that slogan once again. We’re currently spoiled. We have Staples and OfficeMax and Office Depot superstores for all our stationery needs. But if you grew up in the Capital District in the 1960’s and 1970’s and 1980’s, there was only one stationery store chain worth frequenting. That…
Read More30 years ago this week, a very important rugby game was played in Bleecker Stadium.
Tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of a rugby game at Bleecker Stadium, a game between the South African Springboks national team and the United States national rugby team. It was more than just a game – it was a referendum on apartheid and race relations. The following article was originally published in Rugby Magazine…
Read MoreOther September 11th memories
We are approaching the tenth anniversary of a horrible and tragic episode in our lives. I’ve blogged about the events of September 11th twice in my blog, each on the 8th anniversary and on the 9th anniversary of that dark day. This year, I wanted to share with you some other events that happened on…
Read MoreRest in peace, Alexander Vasyunov…
Oh my God. The news came as quickly as a heartbeat. At least 43 people, including the entire Lokomotiv ice hockey team, one of the top Russian professional squads, were killed when their plane crashed into a river bank along the Volga. Among those killed – former Albany Devils left winger Alexander Vasyunov. The tragedy…
Read MoreAlbany’s Trinity Church rises again…
After I posted my photograph series chronicling the demolition of Trinity Church, I received an e-mail from William Leue. He wanted to rebuild the Trinity Church, and to get the measurements and sizes and colorings and shapes perfectly accurate, he wanted to use my photographs from my flickr site. We made an agreeable arrangement, and…
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