My friend and college classmate Laura posted a message on my Facebook wall over the weekend, where she alerted me that the website bestcollegevalues.org chose their 50 most beautiful colleges in autumn – and of those fifty colleges, our alma mater, Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., made it all the way to #12. Yeah, apparently…
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The Princess Bride on the Royale with Cheese Movie Club
Chuck, how in the world have you NEVER seen The Princess Bride? Oh my God this is the greatest fairy tale of our time and you’ve never seen it? Inconceivable. Inconceivable. What in the world is wrong with you? Hey, cut me a break. That’s what the Royale With Cheese Movie Club is designed for…
Read MoreKurt Busch is an idiot
You know what? I actually believed NASCAR driver Kurt Busch had changed. No. He hasn’t. Kurt Busch – who had been released from high-profile rides with Jack Roush and with Roger Penske – and at one point was holding on with a couple of single-car no-funds-in-the-bank teams – had rehabbed his image and his reputation…
Read MoreThe cleaning
I looked at my iTunes directory the other day. Over 4,300 songs. That’s too many. Recently I purchased a last-generation iPod Classic 160g music player, with the specific plans of keeping that bad boy for the rest of my music-enjoying life. And when I synched the iPod up to my iTunes computer storage program, I…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, November 6, 2014: Ten for Thursday
Hey, everybody, it’s time for a review of ten quality excellent blogs by the Times Union’s community blogging crew. Did your favorites make the list? Do you want to read somebody’s new posts that you previously haven’t considered? So here’s ten great blog posts – and I hope you enjoy reading them. They include: Mary…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Time for the Funk Bounce
It’s one of the best ways to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder – I gather up as many classic 60’s hits and blast them in my car. Right now my SiriusXM radio in the Blackbird is tuned to channel 49, “Soul Town,” classic 60’s and 70’s Motown and Philly soul hits. And I feel like sharing…
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One short day with Cassaundra
My daughter Cassaundra is visiting Albany for just a few days. I have only a precious short amount of time I can spend with her, in that she has so many people who want to see her before she has to fly back to Washington State. How do you pack a year of what’s going…
Read MoreAre you ready for Galavant?
Middle ages drama on network television? Hasn’t worked very well. I think the last time there was such a program on network TV was a drama called Covington Cross, which I think lasted three weeks before the plug was pulled. Musical comedy on network television? Hasn’t worked very well. I’m not talking jukebox musicals like…
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The results of BUILT 2014
This is the fourth year I’ve entered my artworks at Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT: Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes fundraiser. I consider BUILT the final entry for my “charity season,” my time where I can use my artworks to help generate funds for various organizations in need. Earlier this year, I found out that some of…
Read MoreLineage
When it comes to my family tree, my mother’s side of the family is a mix of various Native American tribes and some rural Southern culture. Members of my father’s side of the family came from Lithuania or Estonia or some Eastern European country, one of millions of families whose first view of the United…
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