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Let’s just cut to the chase.  I’m not going to make this any easier or faster.  Just rip the Band-Aid off the wound so quickly that it’ll make someone scream Kelly Clarkson’s name. The e-mail o’ doom arrived yesterday.  As long as I don’t open that e-mail, there’s still a microscopic possibility that I’ve made…

This was the last thing I expected.  I’m so used to going to New York City and trying out for The Chance – the game show whose name I dare not speak, even though everybody who has read my blog for the past four years knows exactly who “The Chance” is. I’ve tried out for…

It’s been a part of my trivia schedule ever since the Elbo Room started hosting tournaments.  A Thursday night competition at the Delaware Avenue bar, a trivia tournament that often runs through the fall and winter (and sometimes there’s a spring tournament as well).  Teams play for weeks and weeks for the opportunity to participate…

It’s time to give the coveted Silver Shaker award back.  My Street Academy trivia team has held the Summer Bowl chalice, the symbol of supremacy in summertime team trivia in the Capital District, for the past year. Now we have to defend this championship against 29 other trivia squads. Trust me.  Street Academy will ALWAYS…

It’s the midsummer classic; the Summer Bowl, the trivia championship that’s held as the Saratoga flat track opens for business. This year, the invite-only tournament will take place at On Tap, the restaurant inside Latham’s Holiday Inn Express, this Sunday at 7:00 p.m.  Teams will be challenged on twenty different trivia questions of history, pop…

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve played my Monday night trivia game at the Ruck, the Troy rugby-themed tavern, instead of at my usual Monday evening locale, Brown’s Brewing.  Maybe I just wanted to mix things up – the Ruck has the 70-question “Catch the Mania” trivia game, as opposed to the 20-question “Trivia…

If someone were to design a calendar based on recurring events in my blog, I would assume that several of those dates would include, “Photograph basketball tournament in Boston,” or “Deliver photos to Altamont,” or “Gear up for Trivia Bowl.”  And they could black out five days every year and list them as “Chuck Miller…

Those of you who follow my blog know that I have a solid core of friends who are part of my Street Academy trivia team. They include my best bud Jeremy McNamara – who has been part of my team for longer than any other teammate I’ve ever had – as well as his friend…

Hey, it’s one more chance to win a few extra dollars. It’s the post-tournament $100 game, where the winning team for the night will receive a brand new $100 bill. Currently my Street Academy trio are back to receive our $500 payout for coming in second place in the finals of last week’s Elbo Room…