Thought I’d do this for today’s edition of K-Chuck Radio. This playlist features several songs that were either inspired by, or build their song concept from, our games of youth. You know, the ones we played after lunch at recess; the ones we played in the parking lot; the sing-song chants we used with jumping…
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Are there Albany Patroons and Siena Saints in “The Tournament”?
The 2015 Tournament, the million-dollar winner-takes-all hoops matchup in which 97 basketball teams will compete in a single-elimination matchup, is now underway. The first games were played yesterday, and I’m not going to bore you with scores at the moment. What I am going to do, though, is go through all the rosters of the…
Read MoreThe day Bill Cosby stopped being funny
You don’t want to believe it’s possible. You hope it’s all a misunderstanding, or a vengeful slur by a hurtful third party who wishes to destroy your happiness. But eventually you discover it’s true. Sad and true. Painful and true. And you can’t think of that person – or even that person’s name – without…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, July 9, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Is it Thursday already? Dang, it seems like it was Thursday just last week. Time flies, don’t it? 🙂 So this means it’s time for another recap of the Times Union’s community bloggers and their blog posts. Got some good ones this week, are you ready? Yes you are. Are you set? Yes you are.…
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Crispness in the Warehouse District
Years ago, Kodak manufactured a film called Ektagraphic HC. This was a film that was designed for slideshows – not PowerPoint slideshows, mind you, but the kind of slideshows where you photographed some text and inserted that photograph into your presentation. Yes, we’re talking 1970’s technology. So what? Although you can use this film for…
Read MoreThe Yard Sale Conundrum: What would you do?
Mark is a longtime friend of mine. We met in college and worked together on the college radio station WHCL. We’ve stayed in touch with each other through graduation and our lives and careers. Facebook helps, too. Mark turned his love of music into a thriving business as a record dealer. He goes to several…
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The return of a horse named “Just Vic”
Background. A couple of months ago, I was testing a photographic technique at the race track at Saratoga Casino and Raceway when – all of a sudden – one of the horses got chariot-clipped and crashed to the ground. It took more than two months for the horse, a gelding named “Just Vic,” to recover…
Read MoreI hate missing anniversaries and milestones…
What’s wrong with me? I can’t seem to remember important anniversaries and milestones. And I missed one from three months ago and didn’t even notice until now. It was February 15, 2015. On that date, I wrote a blog post about how I had paid off the loan on my 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, affectionately…
Read MoreCaption Time: A fire sale?
It wasn’t the burned-out building in downtown Albany that caught my attention. No, I was actually transfixed by the newly-attached Realtor® sign affixed to the charred timbers. So here’s what I’d like from you. What advertising copy would you recommend that this Realtor® employ that could possibly sell this property to a new and enthusiastic…
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A prayer for “Gingo La Tresh”
Ahmed Naqi taught science and mathematics and almost every other subject at the Street Academy of Albany. He was there when Harriet Gibbons was the principal (the school was renamed Harriet Gibbons High School after Ms. Gibbons’ passing), and he helped change and inspire young minds at the alternative high school for decades. And he…
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