Last night, Nicole and I went to Brown’s Brewing and had a fantastic meal together. We talked about many things during our dinner – music and family and what makes us both happy. “Do you like going to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center?” I asked her. “Yes.” “Amphitheater or lawn seats?” “I’ve been to both,”…
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Week 20 of the $2,000 2013 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
I think it was five years ago when the Elbo Room became the first Capital District bar / tavern / restaurant to offer a big cash money prize for a trivia tournament. And everybody came out to play. And over time, the Elbo Room tournament became a battle royale, as teams fought week to week…
Read MoreTV Cliche #41: the game show episode
Every so often, characters from your favorite TV shows will invariably end up on one game show or another. More often than not, the characters will find themselves with boatloads of money, only to either blow it on the final question, or get disqualified for some obscure rule violation. And in the end, they receive…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The ease of vocalese
I’m not sure you’ve ever heard of the musical genre known as vocalese. But after you’ve heard some of it on today’s K-Chuck Radio, you will definitely want to hear more of it. “Vocalese” involves singing lyrics and words that were previously performed by an instrument – in other words, if a song originally had…
Read MoreSuper Bowl prop bets, 2013 style
Okay everybody… we all know that some coach named Harbaugh will win the Super Bowl this year. No need to place a bet on that. But here’s a list of “prop bets” – bets made on everything from the opening coin toss to the results of Super Bowl activities and entertainment – that everybody can…
Read MoreBarack Obama and the autoglass repair place
It’s Monday, January 21. I had the day off from the day job, and I wanted to get some errands done – get a picture framed up at Hobby Lobby for an upcoming fundraiser for my friend Bennett Campbell’s friend’s school; purchase something nice for my girlfriend Nicole; do this and that and that and…
Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr. gets auto-tuned
This isn’t the first time that speeches from a famous political figure have been, shall we say, “re-interpreted” in the popular music field. When I was in college, someone edited together pieces from Malcolm X’s speeches, soldered a drumbeat to them, and created this popular dance track. Yesterday morning, I found that one of the…
Read MoreCollarworld: Butterscotch and the Bauble
Time passed in Collarworld, the afterlife waystation where pets wait for reunification with their masters. Vincent, the king orange tabbycat, became friends with Paisley, the pitbull with a heart of gold. And over time, they also made friends with – and said goodbye to – several different cats, dogs, birds and other pets. The relationships…
Read MorePeter Puck, hockey’s pokecheck professor
With the NHL finally returning to our collective sports pages, I thought it might be fun to bring back another icon from the ice hockey world. In this case, I’m bringing back Peter Puck, the lead character in a series of Hanna-Barbera produced cartoons that were designed to explain ice hockey to new viewers. I…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The forgotten ballads
Let me explain what’s going on here. So many fantastic songs have been forgotten over time – major radio hits that have drifted into the ethereal memories. They barely receive any airplay on the oldies stations, and if anyone does mention these singers or their songs, it’s always with a tinge of “I think I…
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