Last week was a big three-stage boost for my “We Are Your Nemesis … Fear Us!” trivia team. We took the overall win last week and earned the $20 “Ruck Bucks” certificate, so that’s a major plus. And in the overall cumulative standings, we’re now in third place among all Ruck teams, and tenth place…
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Caption Time: toss and catch
Greenfield Village Re-enactments, a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. I took this picture a few years ago, back when I had my old Nikon D70 camera. This shot was taken at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, the place where Henry Ford purchased and relocated several residences of famous inventors. So I’ll let you come up…
Read MoreRisking their life for your entertainment
For the past few years, I’ve photographed several daredevil stunt shows – three times at Lebanon Valley Speedway, and once at the Orange County Fairgrounds. Every time I photograph these events, it’s a mixture of excitement and danger, of thrills and chills and spills and what-in-the-blessed-name-of-Joie-Chitwood-are-these-people-thinking action. I’ve made friends with several of the stunt…
Read More❄ and ☃ and 4:00 in the morning
I should not be writing blog posts at four in the morning. Can’t help it. I woke from a half-peaceful sleep. It’s cold this morning. I can feel the winter chills on my skin. I knew there were snowflakes in the evening air last night; I glanced through the Venetian blinds from my living room…
Read MorePreservation in Saratoga Springs via a candelight tour
I believe in the preservation and restoration of the Capital District’s buildings, homes and iconography. And with that in mind, I want to let everybody know about an upcoming event in Saratoga Springs that fits that very purpose. In two weeks – on Friday, December 6 – the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation will host a…
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K-Chuck Radio: Sing About a Kennedy
First off… Check out the new “K-Chuck Radio” logo. Well… until I design a better one, this is the logo that will appear whenever there’s a new K-Chuck Radio blog post. And if you’re a fan of Australian 70’s radio stations, you’ll instantly recognize the “O” as part of the logo of Melbourne radio station…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, November 21, 2013: Ten for Thursday
It’s time once again for everyone’s favorite TU community blog recap. And I want to make things perfectly clear. If I could make this a “Twenty for Thursday,” I most certainly would. Maybe someday I will. But for now, here’s ten really well-written blog posts by my fellow Times Union community blog writing compadres. They…
Read MoreBob Dylan for the win!
Calling Bob Dylan a genius is like calling the sun bright. And today, on his website, he presents a brand new music video for his decades-old classic “Like a Rolling Stone.” It’s part of the premiere of his new CD-box collection of his complete Columbia studio recordings. And you’re saying to me, “Chuck, big deal. …
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Take the Stage!
You’ve made it to the big time. You’re performing on stage, you’re living the dream. That microphone’s right in front of you. Twenty thousand screaming fans are chanting your name. And what do you do about it? You write a song about it. And it becomes part of your catalog. So without further delay, let’s…
Read MoreWeek 3 of the 2013-14 Ruck Trivia Tournament
So I understand it’s still the third week of the tournament, and there’s 16 weeks to play. And although we did reasonably well last Monday at the Ruck, after two weeks of play we fell in the overall score from 7th to 17th place among all Catch The Mania teams participating – and, worse than…
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