The other day, I was talking with an acquaintance about my latest trivia competition. I’m currently playing in a nine-week tournament at Graney’s Stout, with the grand prize being four Jets-Dolphins NFL tickets and two nights’ lodgings at a Miami Beach hotel. “Sounds like a really tough tournament,” he said to me. “It is,” I…
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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but as of a few days ago, my blog now has a little box that allows you to receive e-mailed updates whenever a brand new Chuck Miller blog is posted. Yeah, yeah, I know, anybody with Google Reader can have this feature… But if you look at the top…
Read MoreHooked on “Unsung”
Remember the VH1 series Behind the Music, the show that discussed the trials and tribulations, the rises and falls, of popular singers and bands? Heck, the first two episodes featured the first truly in-depth overview of the Milli Vanilli scandal, which was followed by MC Hammer’s financial implosion. I used to love watching Behind the…
Read MoreQueen, “A Night at the Opera” is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
I’ve owned Queen’s LP A Night at the Opera in several different musical formats. I had the original LP. I had a remastered CD. I had the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab audiophile pressing. I’ve owned the 45’s. I probably purchased the 8-track tape back in the day, I don’t remember. I’ve previously told the story…
Read MorePositive stories of Olympics sportsmanship
Let’s see. Eight badminton players get expelled from the Olympics for sandbagging their matches and not trying to win, so that they would receive more comfortable placement in the quarterfinals. One female soccer player turned into a “socker” player, giving Abby Wambach a black eye. NBC tape-delayed the Olympics to the point where you think…
Read MoreDid Facebook Kill the Fagbug? (UPDATE: The page is back!)
Anybody remember the Fagbug in our area – the Volkswagen Beetle that was spraypainted with gay slurs, just because the car’s owner, Erin Davies, dared to have a rainbow sticker applied to her car’s rear window? You remember the story – Erin turned the vandalism into an opportunity to teach people about gender equality and…
Read MoreBig news for this old picture
Last year, one of my biggest photographic experiments involved shooting a roll of 60+ year old film in my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera. The pictures turned out better than I had expected; and the resulting blog post got picked up and retweeted and FB “liked” all over the world. Not bad for a shot of…
Read MoreLook out for the Flying Freckle!
One of the things you need to know about being a freelance writer is that you have to become an expert on a subject in a very short period of time – just so that you can interview your subject and actually sound like you know what you’re talking about. Whether it’s interviewing musicians whose…
Read MoreFor my 1500th blog post … a new “Caption Time” before they fly south for the winter.
Just realized that this blog post will be my 1,500th for the Times Union. Wow. And I haven’t even reached my 3-year anniversary. So anyways… I caught this cute picture Saturday morning. So how about a great caption for this little picture? Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
Read MoreFormer Albany Patroon to train new champions
The IMG Academies, the nation’s top youth sports foundation whose previous champions include tennis players like Maria Sharapova, soccer players like Freddy Adu, and basketball stars like Kobe Bryant, now has a Capital District sports connection to its mix of top professional teachers, coaches and managers. And you might remember him as a legend from…
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