Thursday morning. Yawn. Get out of bed. Rise and shine. And since it’s Thursday… I can’t forget the most important part of the morning.ย Making sure to post links to ten blogs from the Times Union’s crew of bloggers and writers, ten fantastic articles from the community bloggers.ย This is a chance for me to…
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K-Chuck Radio: More Forgotten 1970’s Disco Hits!
Okay, here’s the deal.ย It’s Wednesday, and I don’t feel like posting some video of a camel asking what day of the week today is.ย And with that in mind, since it is the middle of the week and the weather is dreary, I want to bring you some dance music from the 1970’s.ย That’s…
Read MoreWeek 1 of the 2013-14 Ruck Trivia Tournament
It took three tries, in writing that headline, to NOT type the words “Elbo Room.” For years, I played in the Elbo Room big money tournament.ย My Street Academy trivia team won it twice, and came in second place twice.ย But the minute the tournament became a “raffle” tourney, in that teams received raffle tickets…
Read MoreThe Flying Light Project
A couple of years ago, I tried a photography experiment where I composed one shot in two cameras.ย My “Single Shot: Half Shot” photograph, if you will, was designed so that the film was be exposed in one camera, then re-exposed in a second camera.ย I got it to work – at least reasonably so…
Read MoreThe Results of BUILT 2013
“BUILT: Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes” is the final stop on my photography “charity season.” The three artworks I submitted, which encompass Capital District architecture and iconography, were displayed – along with hundreds of works from other amazing local painters, photographers, sculptors and inkers – in the soon-to-be-fully-restored 60 State Place, the former KeyBank building on…
Read MoreNever let another MC steal your name.
It’s 1979 and I’m in high school.ย Street Academy of Albany.ย And it’s there that I discover this musical genre called rap. And back then, “rap music” was pressed on 12-inch vinyl records, and usually contained one long rap song on side A, and an instrumental version on side B.ย I bought my first rap…
Read MoreSomeecards have invaded my blog!!
You’ve heard of Someecards.com.ย Well, I’m sure you’ve heard of Someecards.com’s output – they’re all over your friends’ Facebook walls and, by extension, they’re in your news feeds as well.ย Sort of like how many of your Facebook friends are into the bitstrips feature, where their lives and actions are turned into cartoon characters. Normally,…
Read MoreHalloween courtesies
It’s October 31st.ย Time to get bags and bags of Fun Size candies and wait by the door for the little ghosts and goblins and Iron Man-costumed kids to come down your street. It’s a rite of passage, I guess.ย It’s a change of the seasons, I guess.ย And so much has been written about…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 31, 2013: Ten for Thursday
Okay, let’s get to the most important part of the day.ย No, not the fact that the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series title in the past ten years.ย No, not the fact that today is Halloween and all the little Trick or Treaters are going to travel door to door, looking for…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: It’s a new Boston album! No, really!!
I can joke about waiting for a new Boston album.ย But the wait is finally over. Boston’s sixth studio release, Life, Love and Hope is scheduled to drop this December.ย This is only eleven years after their most recent release, Corporate America, and nearly thirty-five years since the release of their multi-zillion-selling debut album. Now…
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