I don’t know when the Olympic Bar and Restaurant on 115 South Pearl Street shut down. Maybe it shut down 30 years ago, maybe 10 years ago. All I do know is that the only reference to the Olympic Bar that I could find in the Times Union’s archives involved a robbery that occurred there…
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The nasty breakup and the online sniping
Oh you think breakups and passive-aggressive online comments are limited to failed relationships? Check this out. A few months ago, I wrote about how the Premier Basketball League, an organization I worked with for five years, decided to merge with another basketball league, the International Basketball Association. At the time, I thought that although the…
Read MoreThe restoration of the ghost signs
Over the weekend, I took some pictures of several “ghost signs” in downtown Albany. Normally, this wouldn’t be such a big deal. I’ve photographed these signs before. Heck, I’ve even published an art book with these images. Except this time, I’m photographing these artworks for a different reason. These are going to be the “before”…
Read MoreAlways admit when you’re wrong.
I am not a man who is afraid of being wrong. I’ve been wrong many times. I’ve made bad choices, I’ve made bad decisions, I’ve dropped the ball more times than a cross-eyed center fielder. But if you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that if I’m ever wrong, I’ll repair…
Read More“That” new Cheerios commercial
I don’t know if you’ve seen this commercial yet. It shows a little girl asking her mother about if Cheerios is healthy. The mother responds that yes, the cereal is healthy. So the little girl pours a box of Cheerios on her father, who is napping on the couch. Cute. Of course, that’s not the…
Read MoreBrought to you by the letter “Q” and by the number “10”.
Over the past ten years, I’ve had several cell phones. And the majority of them have been BlackBerry cell phones. The one at the left is an image of my first cell phone, a BlackBerry 6750. I originally purchased this phone with the hope that it would be the perfect unit for anything I needed…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Somewhere Over the Rainbow…
What a fantastic song. And to think, at one point in time, this song was almost deleted from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz because someone thought the movie was too long. So let’s start with the version everybody knows. This version. Here’s an interesting version, this is Judy Garland performing with the Tommy…
Read MoreCohoes Falls on Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend was a weather-related bust. Rain. Cold. I almost expected cicadas and locusts. But Monday morning was beautiful and sunny. And I needed a few morning pictures to make my day. I’ve shot the Cohoes Falls before, mostly using a Hoya ND400 neutral-density filter so that the water blends. Figured I’d shoot that…
Read MoreBest of our community TU blogs, May 30 2013: Ten For Thursday
Oh you thought I was joking last week about doing this, weren’t you? You thought that maybe I was only going to do this for a week and get bored with the idea? Silly you. Again, I continue with promoting the work of my fellow Times Union community bloggers, until that day when the Times…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Familiar songs, new interpretations
I’ve had this happen on occasion. I’ll be listening to the radio, and I swear I hear what sounds like a familiar song… only to discover that yes, I know the song, I know the lyrics, but that’s NOT the person I remember singing it. And after a few moments… I’m thinking, wow. That’s an…
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