Note. After I moved to Green Island in 2010, I had to make some financial choices in my life. Gone were the days when I could afford several different premium channels on my cable television subscription; now I was a single man with my own income and I had to make ends meet. So I…
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Seven cities in Canada aren’t happy with me…
As you might know, one of my jobs is to provide statistics and player relations with the National Basketball League of Canada, an eight-team hoops circuit that’s right in the middle of playoff season. Eight teams are battling for the championship, including the defending champion Windsor (Ont.) Express, the two-time champion London (Ont.) Lightning, and…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Songs for the Mellow
As I’m waking up this morning, and trying to figure out why my wristwatch says 7:00 a.m. and the clock on my Time Warner Cable converter says 8:00 a.m… Oh yeah… Daylight Saving Time kicked in. Well, I’m not going to do a K-Chuck Radio blog post about ten songs that count the time, I…
Read MoreGoodbye to Harve Bennett, another genre TV icon…
Maybe you’ve heard of Harve Bennett. Maybe you haven’t. He passed away last Wednesday. But the television programs he produced – you remember them. You’ve watched them, you grew up on them. Harve Bennett was a master of 70’s genre television, and many of his shows – which featured fantasy and superheroes – are still…
Read MoreGoodbye to the elephants…
For all the times I’ve watched the circus, I’ve enjoyed a feeling of epic wonder throughout all the performances. For one great price, I saw trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, lion tamers, clowns, and – if you’ve been to the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus – the parade of elephants. Elephants that could stand on…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, March 5, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Good morning! Is that the sun out there? Are we going to see these piles of snow and ice finally melt away? Keep thinking positive. It will work out. And while we’re waiting for the snow to melt… let’s check out ten Times Union community bloggers and ten great blog posts from this week. They…
Read MoreOrigami dancing paper swans!
Every so often, I need a little “eye bleach” from all the tragedies in the world. I need something to give me a respite from the wars and famines and bone-chilling weather and gloomy despair that I see on the news and in my social media feeds and in every other location. Of course, seeing…
Read MoreAmish Mafia Episode Review: “Forbidden Knowledge”
Part of the fun of reviewing Amish Mafia episodes is the way the show tries to portray what goes on in their fictionalized “real world,” while still trying to deal with how the real world affects their “fictionalized” world. You know, every time they have a plotline with Alan Beiler, something happens and he gets…
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“I have that Answers Please episode on videotape…”
Nearly 35 years to the day of its first – and only – broadcast, a rare and treasured piece of my history has resurfaced. The tape’s recovery and its contents… make for one of my most reflective blog posts of all time.
Read MoreTrivia playing ban = civil rights violation?
Over the weekend, I received this message from a trivia player in the Hudson Valley. And although I wasn’t sure how to respond… I do have some ideas, based on my personal experience in playing bar and tavern trivia. Here’s the tweet in question. @chuckthewriter Do trivia hosts have the right to discriminate against repeat…
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