Boom. It’s Thursday morning. I wake up. One eye checks the alarm clock. 4:00 a.m. I roll over. The bedroom window is next to my bed. My non-glasses-wearing eyeballs are still focusing. I squint through the Venetian blinds of my window. Flash of light. Five seconds later, another boom. Thunderstorm. What’s the mathematical formula, my…
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The Log and the Chance
It’s Sunday, August 5, and I’m riding the train down to New York City for another try with The Chance. Another audition. Only this time, I’m not traveling alone. For the first time since I started auditioning for this show, I’m actually auditioning with someone. And would you believe it’s everybody’s favorite blog-snark, D357? That…
Read MorePhoto Results from Altamont 2012
It’s Tuesday night, and I’m driving up Route 20 to get to Altamont. And a million thoughts zip through my mind, galloping like horses entering the clubhouse turn. How do I explain these feelings to everyone? This feeling, every year around this time, of going through twelve months’ worth of photographs, of choosing four that…
Read MoreMy 2012 Altamont Fair photography entries are…
Okay, today’s the day. I’m going to finish what I’ve got to do at the day job, and then drive down Route 20 like Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am, to reach the Altamont Fair. Three years ago, I entered my first pictures at the Altamont Fair photography competition. How long ago was it? …
Read MoreThe $5 Chip
If I’m driving back home on the New York State Thruway, and I’m feeling a bit weary, there are several locations where I can take a little driving break. I might stop at Exit 32 and visit my alma mater, Hamilton College, for a while. I might stop at Exit 48 and get some food…
Read MoreThe PBS children’s shows you forgot about
At one point in my life, as far as I was concerned, the best children’s television shows were all on WMHT, my local PBS station. Okay, this may have been back in the era of B.C. (Before Cable), but once a week WMHT aired a whole lineup of educational and entertaining juvenile TV shows and…
Read MoreOchocinco’s headbutt proves he’s a butthead
Wide receiver Chad Johnson is out of a job today. The Miami Dolphins released the talented but troubled wide receiver from their roster. This happens all the time in the NFL. People get released from the roster in training camp, the last words they hear from the trainer is usually, “The coach wants to see…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: More 60’s lost regional hits
These were monster hits. They topped the charts. They were played until the grooves wore out. Truly, they were monster hits. They just weren’t national hits, in the same sense that Katy Perry could release a song on Tuesday and it would be on every radio station playlist by Tuesday afternoon. We’re talking about the…
Read More“Guess you wasted that postage, Chuck.”
It’s Saturday morning, bright and early. My car is already packed with a couple of bottles of diet cola, the gas tank’s filled to the tippy top, and I’m ready to hit the road. Let’s Go, Cardachrome – next stop, the New York State Fair in Syracuse, where I have to drop off my copy…
Read MoreLittle Coins and Little Stamps
It may seem partially anal-retentive and partially passive-aggressive to the uninitiated, but when it comes to postage and coinage, I’ve developed some important rules in my life regarding same. I’ve blogged about many of these rules in the past. If I get an old dollar bill in my change, I’ll “take it out of circulation”…
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