Last night, I watched the Oscars telecast with my friend Marty – it was going to be a Daytona 500/Oscars doubleheader before Mother Nature decided to turn it into a single feature – we would guess who would win each award as it came up. Marty was ahead 4-3 in Oscar picks – every time…
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The night that Scott Brooks dunked on Ron Cavenall
NBA fans know that Scott Brooks is the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and that he was the winning coach of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game – his West squad took a low-scoring 152-149 All-Star Game victory, and I’m sure Brooks was as pleased as punch when his Oklahoma City charge Kevin Durant…
Read MoreHow to tell if you’re watching the Academy Awards or the Daytona 500
So this is going to be a big, big night – depending on whether you’re ready to watch the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing’s marquee event, the Daytona 500, or whether you’re ready to watch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ marquee event, the Academy Awards. Depending on your loyalties, both…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Flintstone Rock, or, when Hanna-Barbera made rock and roll records!!
Fact. In 1965, Hanna-Barbera – the animation company famous for everything from The Flintstones to The Jetsons, from Yogi Bear to Jonny Quest, released several tie-in record albums with their cartoons. Usually they would do this though a third party, like Colpix Records, and all would be good. But by 1965, Hanna-Barbera wanted to branch…
Read MoreA Gun Without a Trigger
Pull up a chair and pour yourself a beverage. We need to talk about some stuff. You’ve heard the phrases before. “Baiting.” “Pushing buttons.” “Entrapping.” It’s when someone knows that you get quickly angry about something, and they use that knowledge to tempt you into saying, or thinking, or doing, something seriously wrong. They’re the…
Read More“Number 7, Cheeseburger, No Fries!”
I had some errands to run on Sunday – take some packages to the post office, talk with my tax preparer to get my taxes filed, get a roll of film developed at CVS – little things like that. So while I was in Colonie Center, feeling mid-afternoon hunger pangs, I decided to go to…
Read MoreSo the teams are ready for the Parsons Corporate Trivia Challenge…
Looks like the upcoming Parsons Corporate Trivia Challenge, which will be held at Jillian’s Bar and Restaurant on North Pearl Street in Albany on Thursday, March 1, will be a big bad sellout. There will be 25 companies represented at the event, and since some of these companies are sending two or more squads, there…
Read MoreHowzabout some great Downton Abbey video mash-ups?
Being a fan of the drama Downton Abbey does have its ups and downs. No, I don’t mean its upstairs and downstairs, that’s another show. But in the meantime… PBS, home of Downton Abbey‘s American network anthology series Masterpiece, brings us this hilarious mash-up featuring Dame Maggie Smith, as Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham,…
Read MoreThe Fencesitter at Thacher Park
Two years ago, I took some photos from the Helderberg Escarpment at Thacher Park. One of them, “Star Trails of Thacher Park,” was presented at several contests. Last Sunday, I took my Nikon F100 film camera, along with some rolls of film and a couple of my lenses, up to Thacher Park to capture some…
Read MoreWhat would you give up to get a Wegmans in the Capital District?
Last week, when my buddy Jeremy McNamara and I ate breakfast at the Miss Albany Diner, we talked about the various businesses and restaurants that have arrived and departed over the years. “Everybody went crying because the Troy Co-Op shut down,” I said, “and a short time later everyone forgot about it because they were…
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