How cool is this? Last week I was puttering around eBay and decided to punch in my name “Chuck Miller” into the search engine. And lo and behold, I found something cool. Apparently there was a “Chuck Miller” Ford car dealership near Houston, Texas. And they, like every other car dealership, had customized car badges…
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Rebecca Black versus ARK Music Factory – it’s not “Friday” any more
So let’s see. Three months ago, a California high school girl records a song called “Friday,” which becomes the most viral video of 2011. It inspires jokes and derision and a hundred other emotions, and it racks up about 160 million views on YouTube. The song actually became a hit on its own – a…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Forgotten Hits of the 1980’s
Here’s another batch of hits that, no matter how long you listen to your local oldies station, they aren’t getting any airplay. And of course, this is despite the fact that they were actually decent radio hits at the time of their release. But I suppose when your playlist requires you to play Blackstreet’s “No…
Read MoreYearbook sabotage
The recent story involving a Saratoga Springs High School yearbook, in which a girl’s picture was altered to show her with unflattering yellow teeth – and then the uproar afterward, with the picture being scissored out of copies of the yearbook, and then later the yearbook company agreeing to reprint the volume with the photo…
Read MoreThe Ten Hottest Television and Movie Cars
We live in a car culture. We want the cars that will make all the girls turn their heads. Cars full of muscle and power and energy, cars that are indeed an extension of ourselves – or, at least, our sense of ourselves. And when we watch our favorite television shows and movies, there are…
Read MoreThe Hooters Reunion Trivia game at Graney’s Stout
On Tuesday night, I arrived at Graney’s Stout bar on Broadway in North Albany for their first Tuesday night trivia game, and this game would be special – a “Hooters Reunion” of the best trivia teams to ever win at the legendary restaurant. Among the classic teams to return for another round – Lynch’s Mob,…
Read MoreLodge’s Store in PolaBlue
Remember when I said that Polaroid 35mm instant slide film was some of the toughest film I’ve ever worked with? The high-contrast PolaChrome and PolaBlue films were extremely temperamental, and getting anything that resembled more than just a swirled color blob was nothing short of a miracle? Well, in the last batch of PolaBlue film,…
Read MoreCongratulations to another Albany Patroons alumnus winning an NBA title
I waited all day to see if the Times Union sports writers would mention this. And none of them did. Yeah, like I expected the Times Union to mention anything positive regarding the Albany Patroons. You know… the basketball team, played in the Armory, moved to that big arena downtown, moved to Hartford, moved back…
Read MoreRemembering Frontier Town
Once upon a time, the Adirondacks were filled from one end of Route 9 to the other with amusement parks. Most of them have faded away, others have evolved under the aegis of new ownerships. You might remember some of those classic nams – the Land of Makebelieve, 1000 Animals, Gaslight Village… In the past,…
Read MoreRest in peace, Carl Gardner. Just tell those hoodlum friends outside… you ain’t got time to take a ride.
Maxine Pinkney is a good friend of mine; she was the widow of Bill Pinkney, one of the original members of the classic R&B group The Drifters. Pinkney, who was a member of the Drifters alongside Clyde McPhatter, sang bass for the vocal harmony group, and it’s Pinkney’s voice that can be heard on their…
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