We start each year with wonderful thoughts and good wishes. And through the year, we lose many of our friends and companions and loved ones and admired ones along the way. Goodbye, Sam Carey. You made a positive impression on every teammate you ever had. Goodbye, Tyler Rhodes. A wonderful and brilliant life… taken too…
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A prime lens upgrade
There are many things that I enjoy doing when I travel to New York City at Christmastime. I always walk through Central Park – especially around Strawberry Fields, the park’s “quiet place” of reflection. Of course, that “quiet place of reflection” is mobbed with tourists that get their picture taken with the beautiful IMAGINE mosaic.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Ten Christmas songs that don’t get any love on the radio any more
Here’s my problem. I get sick and tired of people griping about which Christmas songs should get crossed off the list. “Oh, I hate ‘Dominick the Donkey,’ I wish it would go away.” “Aw geez, are they playing ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ again? Give it a rest!” “Oh no, not ‘Last Christmas’ again?” Yeah. Heard it,…
Read MoreWeek 14 of the $2,000 2011 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
I don’t know what it is about this year’s tournament – maybe it’s the 20-week format, maybe it’s the holiday season, maybe it’s the lousy Atlanta-vs-Jacksonville football game available on the Elbo Room’s big screens – but last night’s tournament week was essentially contested by three teams. The only three teams that showed up. Street…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: The Picture and the Wallet
NOTE: To read Chuck Miller’s book “The Robins of Iverhill: A Minor League Fairy Tale,” as well as the short stories in the “Christmas in Iverhill” series, visit this link. Monday, December 24, 1973. “Mom, you have to trust me. This is so easy.” “But I don’t understand what you’re doing,” Louise Martin complained, as…
Read MoreCongratulations to Siena basketball star and current NBA training camp invitee Tommy Mitchell
For those of you who might not know this, I have been working for two professional basketball leagues this season. And I always keep an eye on anyone who played in our area – either for Siena or for UAlbany or for the Albany Patroons – and I can see how they’re doing in the…
Read MoreRemembering AM 1540, WPTR
You might not know this, but radio station WPTR is gone again. If I were to say this to anybody under the age of 25, I would assuredly receive some glassy-eyed stare about “WPT-wha-a-a?” And I would suspect there might be an equal amount of readers who will say to me, “Chuck, when did it…
Read MoreNational Sorry Day
Imagine if there was a national holiday in which you actually went up to your neighbor, to your co-worker, and apologized for the transgressions of the past. Trust me. Such a national holiday exists. I wouldn’t exactly call it a holiday, it’s not like Christmas or Easter – but it does involve healing and patience…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Baroque, Symphonic Pop
You’ve heard them on the radio from time to time – songs like “Nights in White Satin” by the Moody Blues, or “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum. It’s a song with the backing of a studio orchestra of some sort. A song where the song’s pop music sensibilities are mixed with studio…
Read MoreAnother “Caption Time” picture that seems to be a bit… inclimate.
Here’s something to keep you busy on a Tuesday… how about a great caption for this picture that I took in New York City over the weekend? Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
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