It’s Christmas, 1969. At that time, I was living with my maternal grandparents in a small Cape-style house on Kenwood Avenue in Slingerlands. And Christmas was coming. I’m sure my aunts purchased things from the Friendly Home Parties catalog for all of us, and I’m sure my grandparents wrapped everything the night before Christmas. I’m…
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Santa Claus comes to Green Island
Man, what a Sunday. My Pittsburgh Steelers got knocked out of the playoffs – memo to Dan Rooney: draft a new quarterback NOW, the old one ain’t cutting it any more – and it’s just been a dreary, boring Sunday afternoon. I’ve done my holiday shopping, Cassaundra got her gifts, and I picked up a…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Motivation and Energy!!
There are times when I need a pick-me-up. A pump-me-up. A “get-out-of-bed-and-kick-my-troubles-in-the-tuchus” motivational push. And this weekend, I’m going to achieve that very goal. And it never hurts to have a musical soundtrack help you get to that point. Case in point. This edition o fK-Chuck adio THE TEMPTATIONS feat. DIANA ROSS Rhythm of Life…
Read MoreThe sickest baseball pitches of all time
What kind of baseball pitcher do you like? Hard-throwing fastballers? Wicked sharp curveball experts? The occasional knuckleballer? Well, check these out. I’ve got some of the craziest pitchers out there. Rip Sewell was one of the first pitchers to throw this high lob that made batters swing from the backs of their heels. Back then…
Read MoreSanta looks like a reddit-eyed alien
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the social media site reddit. I was on the site for a while, gave up on it, and then decided to go back to it on my own terms. Recently I signed up for Reddit’s “Secret Santa 2012” event, in which nearly 60,000 Redditors worldwide play the “Secret Santa”…
Read MoreWeek 15 of the $2,000 2012-13 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Do my eyes deceive me? Are they back? Yes they are… back again… it’s the Skids… tell a friend… The trivia team known as the Skidmarks have returned to the Elbo Room for the trivia tournament. Sure the tournament’s three-quarters of the way done, but they said they were going to win big tonight and…
Read More“Amish Mafia” and televised hypocricy
When I saw the initial “coming attractions” trailer for the new Discovery Channel series Amish Mafia, a reality television series that focuses on an enforcement organization that protects the innocent Amish people in Lancaster County, Pa., I couldn’t believe what I saw. And when I say “couldn’t believe,” it’s not a good thing. At first…
Read MoreKicking the 24-hour bug out of Chateau Chuck
It hit Sunday night at the worst possible time. And I mean WORST possible time. I was on a date. We were having dinner, we were staring in each others’ eyes, everything was perfect… And then my stomach just twisted up in knots. Butterflies? Nerves? Live crawfish in my tummy? No. It…
Read MoreMore fun with my lo-fi cameras
As much as I appreciate my Nikon D700 digital camera and my high-end Rolleiflex Automat MX 120 shooter, I still have an affinity for my lo-fidelity cameras and the use of wonky expired film. Case in point. I can get great “industrial” shots out of my 20-year-old expired Ukrainian Svema B&W 120 film, which because…
Read More“You’re wrong, Mr. Miller. You get a C-minus.”
Last Thursday at trivia, my teammate Jeremy McNamara, who besides being a killer Ultimate Disc player is also a chemistry professor – as an aside, J-Mac could rattle off the entire Periodic Table of the Elements without having to sing it Tom Lehrer style – was grading term papers in the middle of the trivia…
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