Science fiction shows can build a devotional following in nothing flat. If a science fiction or genre show hooks you, you don’t want to let it go. You want it to last for years and years and years, even if the actors playing the main characters leave the show and are replaced by other actors.…
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Week 5 of the $2,000 2011 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
There have been many questions regarding this year’s tournament. Will Get That Poison Out win back-to-back tournaments? Will Woo Hoo a Go Go or Team Fist shock the world with a victory? Will my Street Academy team claim the big bucks? Will Team Schooled step to the plate and win? Nah, those are easy questions…
Read MoreAnother Dance with the Chance
Okay, it’s official. I am a masochist. I keep trying to break through, hoping for an acceptance by The Chance. An acceptance for one day. Just one day. Let me in. Let me try. Don’t keep me out. Don’t block me. So that’s why, when I saw there was an opportunity for a rare Saturday…
Read MoreUrban autumn foliage
If you can’t get out to the country to see the leaves change colors… sometimes you can see it happen in a puddle of water along Green Street in Albany. Which I did. And I got a picture of it. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, it’s nice to know that I found soem beauty and…
Read MoreIn Praise of the Poky Little Puppy and What-A-Jolly Street
Sometimes, the simplest of texts are indeed the best of texts. Jason Purvis penned this blog post, asking people about what would be the most appropriate and enjoyable children’s books. And for the love of me, the only book I could recall reading over and over again, and essentially begging my mother to read to…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Relax and feel good with a tasty mix of music….
In the true tradition of Top 40 pop radio, I’m going to list several different music tracks from several different musical genres. Essentially, you’ll probably find at least one or two songs on K-Chuck Radio that will make you feel good. Hopefully all ten of them will. So relax and enjoy and have a good…
Read MoreOkay, who had “The Playboy Club” as the first cancelled network show of the season? I sure did…
Wow… the show lasted a blistering three weeks. I’m talking about “The Playboy Club,” a television drama that purported to use the backdrop of Hugh Hefner’s successful gentleman’s clubs as a jumping-off point for period drama. The show was designed to titillate – showing Playboy bunnies and talking about the cocktail-and-martini 1960’s, with cameo narration…
Read MoreMadonna’s Set List for the Halftime Entertainment of Super Bowl XLIV
Ah, the announcement that everybody’s favorite Material Girl, Ms. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie, will be providing the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl 46 in February 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Of course, thanks to a bit of detective work (and knowing a few friends over in Indy that used to be…
Read MoreUAlbany Professor discovers that 92% of all pop songs are about sex. Well, duh.
In the journal Evolutionary Psychology, UAlbany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs published a survey that determines that of nearly 175 songs that hit the Billboard Top 10 on the pop, R&B and country charts in 2009, more than 90% of them contained “reproductive messages.” That’s right, they’re talking about having sex. For her research, Hobbs…
Read MoreTrivia Night with the Hibernians
Every two or three months or so, the Albany chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians hosts a Saturday night trivia game. It’s a buy-in game; $5 per team is the buy-in; and the top three teams win some money. So on Saturday evening, a friend I went to the Hibernians Hall, had dinner –…
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