I have many friends who visit the various Disney theme parks as often as they can. They really enjoy the experience, and they love interacting with the Disney park employees – er, “cast members,” as they’re properly termed. My friends know all the secrets about having a great time at a Disney park – what…
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Caption Time: Look up…
Yesterday, I took my cameras out for a little photo journey around Albany’s rural areas. And at one point in time, I aimed one of my cameras to the sky… and I got a stunning photo for my efforts. But it needs a real caption. Something that if I do enter it in competition, it…
Read MoreI know that song from the QuickBooks commercial!!
I realize that I’ve come to the age in my life where the songs I played on college radio are now appearing as jingles for commercial products. Yes, I’ve heard Modern English’s “I Melt With You” in a Burger King commercial, and Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” has shown up in Chips Ahoy! commercials…
Read MoreThe toughest part of handling rejection
So yesterday I found out that a photo contest I entered last year – the Soho Photo “Krappy Kamera” competition – came through with none of my pictures getting accepted into the show. I mean, it shouldn’t bother me. I’ve battled through things like the Altamont Curse in my photographic journey. I’ve challenged what I…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, January 1, 2015: Ten for Thursday
It’s Thursday for sure. New Year’s Day. And as I’ve done for the past I-don’t-know-how-many-weeks, I’ve set aside my blog to showcase the blogs of ten of my fellow Times Union community bloggers. The goal, in case you forgot, was to get the TU to acknowledge the community bloggers when the newspaper does its “Best…
Read MoreChuck’s best blog posts of 2014
Normally I would post this on New Year’s Day; however, because that falls on a Thursday, and I’ve reserved Thursday for the “Best of our TU Community Bloggers” feature, I’ve moved my “Best of Chuck’s 2014 blog posts” up a day. This is the sixth year in my Times Union tenure that I’ve created this…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: You can go, but we’ll still have hits…
Inspiration for my blog posts can come from several different sources. Recently, my TU blog bro Ken Screven posted a picture of the Supremes and remarked that this was the anniversary of one of that lineup’s last major hits, “Someday We’ll Be Together.” Yes, it was – at least for the lineup that included Diana…
Read MoreThoughts while driving on the 401
Sunday morning. I’m in Windsor, Ontario. I have a long drive home. At least a good 9 1/2 hours, if I don’t stop for eats or fuel. And I’ll need to stop for eats and fuel. It’s chilly and bleak along the 401, Ontario’s long provincial highway. There’s a few gas stations here and there,…
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A Diploma in Diamonds and Dirilium
I remember the day in 1981. A beautiful, sun-scorched June day on the campus of the Doane Stuart School, which offered its facilities for the graduates of the Street Academy of Albany on this very day. My high school diploma, my “first” diploma. I accepted it proudly. Along with the diploma came a high school…
Read More“A present? Oh boy, what is it?”
It’s astounding how some things will remind you of other things. Just a flash, an instantaneous moment in time, can make you recall something that you had buried deep in your mental vault, so deep that you hoped it would never resurface. And that’s what happened to me the other day. It’s last Thursday, and…
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