Come on. You know you want to do this. You know there’s at least two or three people in your office or business that are trivia whiz kids. And you definitely want to help out for a good cause. Here’s your chance. On Wednesday, March 1, Parsons Child and Family Center will host their Corporate…
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Next year on “Downton Abbey…” the Dowager Countess faces off against Shirley MacLaine!
As you might have gathered, I have become a big fan of Downton Abbey. It’s a fantastic period drama / soap opera, and one of the highlights of the show is Dame Maggie Smith’s Emmy-winning portrayal of the Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham. The Dowager Countess – or, for us Americans, the mother of…
Read MoreMore teams announced for Trivia Bowl VIII
So in addition to the fifteen teams that have already been announced as competitors for Trivia Bowl VIII – Stop The Bus (current champion) Stern Fans (Trivia Bowl IV champion) Lynch’s Mob (Trivia Bowl I, II champion) Street Academy (Trivia Bowl III, VI champion) Team Load (Trivia Bowl V champion) Tres Hombres Village Idiots Blue…
Read MoreThe Failures of Spotify
I’m not very happy with Spotify right now. Spotify is the new online listening service, where you can set up your own playlists from millions of tracks and enjoy your own online custom-made radio station. You can build a playlist for listening to Spotify at work, you can build a playlist for listening to Spotify…
Read MoreSupport your local licensed school librarian!
My friend Laura passed this request on to me, and I’m passing it along to you. Think about this for a second. As school budgets around the country are trimmed down to the marrow, school programs are being cut or marginalized. And that includes the school library. Budget cuts are shrinking the school library. The…
Read MoreAlbums I Want to Be Buried With: Big Star, “#1 Record”
For those of you who never experienced the wonderful jangle-pop and power-pop of Big Star, you missed out on something great. For it was Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the Box Tops, along with songwriter Chris Bell, who created one of the 1970’s most overlooked and under-appreciated groups of the rock era. Think…
Read MoreSuper Bowl XLVI “Prop Bets”
There’s a story, rather apocryphal, that someone actually put $5,000 on a Super Bowl “Prop Bet” a few years ago – he wagered that the first play of the game would result in a kickoff return for a touchdown. He had his friends all over at his house, there were snacks and beers and a…
Read MoreChuck’s Podcast from the National Basketball League of Canada
One of my freelance writing clients is the National Basketball League of Canada. As that league approaches its first postseason, I was recently interviewed by the NBL Canada’s official blog crew, and the resulting podcast can be heard at this link. In case you’re wondering, the NBL Canada is Canada’s first independent professional basketball league…
Read MoreIf you’re going to read between the lines…
It’s something that’s perplexed me for a long time – how people read into what I’ve written in a blog, looking for clues in some snarky message or thematic K-Chuck Radio post. That maybe if you study the words or pick through the various statements and videos in each message, then you can decipher whatever…
Read MoreWeek 20 of the $2,000 2011-12 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Let’s face it. The only way to make the final round of the Elbo Room trivia tournament was to play your way in. And some teams tried to get in at the last moment – Team Smudge, for one; Team Badger, for another – but they could not. In fact, there were so many teams…
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