A lizard and a stag stole $300 from me.

As many of you know, last June I was involved in a horrible car accident in which my beloved 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, nicknamed “The Blackbird,” was destroyed.  The accident happened in North Carolina; I had to get home to New York.  My car was completely undriveable; and in that moment, I had to find…

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Choose your path … stone or earth…

Choose your path … stone or earth. A photo posted by Chuck Miller (@kchuckradio) on Sep 4, 2016 at 7:17am PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js Choices. We make them every day. Necktie or polo. Slacks or skirt. Left or right. And the choices we make have an overlying theme to them. Can I do it. Is it too…

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“We can recover your lost money, Mr. Miller…”

I do not appreciate attempts by telemarketers, scammers or fraudsters to separate me from my money.  I don’t.  Not in the least.  And that includes the person calling from “Internal Revenue Service” with their satellite office in Bangalore, telling me I’m being sued for back taxes.  He got dumbfounded when I simply repeated all his…

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Buster’s showing off his Shofar

The shofar is one of the oldest musical instruments.  It’s the horn that Joshua blew to knock down the walls at Jericho.  And the most beautiful shofars in the world came from the heads of rams. During my “Sunday at the Altamont Fair” excursion, in which I spend the entire day at Altamont and experience…

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Raskolnikov’s Intersection, part 2

You may have heard that I’m trying something new with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 ultrawide camera “Raskolnikov.”  I had previously tried to craft a “weave” by crossing two strips of 35mm film into an intersectional photograph. Liked it, but wanted more. So last Sunday I went back to that bendy road near Route 157, just off…

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Best of our TU Independent Blogs, September 1, 2016: Ten for Thursday

So someone asked me … “Chuck, how do you choose and rank the blogs for each Thursday recap?” Simple.  I see which bloggers have sent me cookies or candy or other forms of tribute… Ha. Actually, I read the blogs, and those that catch my interest – whether I share the blogger’s opinion or disagree…

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Week 9 of the 2016 Graney’s Stout Summer Trivia League

Resolved.  I need to break my routine.  I can’t keep going home from a trivia league game with zero points.  I have to do better. And this week, I did.  Mostly thanks to a new team that showed up at Graney’s Stout – and basically violated the tenets of tavern trivia. Let me explain. As…

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The ownership of golden pins

Over the weekend, I began work on a new Dream Window project.  No, I’m not going to reveal its concept to you right now.  These projects take time.  Trust me on this. As part of the project, I placed an eBay order for an item that contained various stickpins associated with the project’s concept.  Yesterday,…

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Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor and Northway Mall

The passing of Gene Wilder yesterday caught us in our heart and in our soul.  One of the best actors of our generation, a man who could play comedy and tragedy and off-kilter characters, and switch from one genre to another with minimal effort, Gene Wilder was a true theater genius. And while most of…

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