Can we wrap the tournament up right now, please? Let’s be honest. There are really only five teams that come to Elbo Room with any reasonable frequency. Four of those five teams are locked in for all intents and purposes, and the fifth team (the Haterzz) are all but mathematically assured of a spot in…
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The next chapter in my life…
This is hard for me to say out loud, and it’s twice as hard for me to talk about on the blog, especially when anyone out there who reads this blog – and who has read it for the past three and a half years – might think that everything is going well, and has…
Read MoreThe Metal Treehouse
I’ve mentioned before that my youth involved moving around from one house to another, from one family member to another. I’ve come to grips with what happened in my life, accepting the few good moments and dealing with the tougher times as teaching moments. When you move around so many times, it’s hard to establish…
Read MoreThe GE Show ‘n Tell Picturesound Phonoviewer
And now, dear blog readers, I am going to take you as far back in time to the mid-1960’s. Back to a time when General Electric manufactured something that today still looks kinda cheezy and goofy, but we kids didn’t care. We enjoyed it, and more than four decades later, we’re still enjoying memories of…
Read MoreI lost respect for Clint Bowyer
Yesterday, at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Phoenix, there was a wreck between race car drivers Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon. Apparently there had been some bad blood between the two of them – something to do with a wreck between the two drivers a few races ago, and then at the race yesterday…
Read MoreOne year later.
While everybody is dealing with the 2012 Presidential election hangover – many of you are still applauding, some of you are still grimacing, others are still ambivalent – I’m thinking about something else. Because around this time last year, I came very, very close to every parent’s worst nightmare. I thought I might be attending…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Before they were Bee Gees…
Think about this for a second. If I asked you to name ten different Bee Gees songs RIGHT NOW… I could probably guess nine of them. Go ahead. Write down your choices. Let’s see… I’m betting you wrote down “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Tragedy,” “You Should Be Dancing,” “Jive Talkin,”…
Read MoreThe Internet memes have invaded my blog!!
We’ve all seen them. They’ve been passed around from e-mail to e-mail, posted on Facebook walls, tweeted and pinned and G-plus’d and whatnot. You know them. Internet memes. Ironic, witty, pithy comments juxtaposed with photographs of various thisandthats. So just for a goof, and to give everybody a good laugh, I wondered what would happen…
Read MoreWeek 10 of the $2,000 2012-13 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
There are basic verbal terms and phrases that one can use in describing your basic trivia event. There’s the “murder question,” in which the final answer is so tough that it stumps everybody. There’s the “Baker Triple,” so named after Trivia Nights Live host Kevin Baker’s proclivity to have the answer for a multiple-bonus question…
Read MoreDream Window #4: Life Ain’t No Crystal Stair
Sunday, October 28. The pre-Superstorm Sandy sky was surprisingly calm, and I had plenty of shootable 120 camera rollfilm in my freezer. Yep, the freezer is where all photographers should keep their film, so that it can be used without worrying about it going too far past its expiration date. Don’t laugh at me, you…
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