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…
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Support 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…
Read MoreIt’s time for Trivia Bowl VIII… and the first 15 teams are announced.
Have you been studying? Are you up to date on your current events and your pop culture references? Do you know your Cy Young winners and your Stanley Cup champions, as well as your Calder Cup champions and Memorial Cup champions? Get ready. It’s time for the Capital District’s team trivia championship – Trivia Bowl…
Read MoreOne more try for my Single Shot: Half Shot “Night Train” photo…
This is my last roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan 616 film for a while. It’s not like I’ve got a freezer full of the stuff on hand; 616 film hasn’t been produced since the mid-1970’s, so I gotta get this stuff off the collectors’ market. So until I get some more… this last roll will…
Read MoreWet Winter along the Albany County Rail Trail
While I have no trouble keeping my film and digital cameras in decent, working order, I’ve had worse luck with my camcorder equipment. I acquired a Flip video recorder about four months ago, and one day I went to use it – and it was dead. Not “dead” as in “I need more batteries” –…
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