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In an unexpected turn of events that no one saw coming, NBC has announced that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been tapped to host the April 10th edition of Saturday Night Live, replacing Carey Mulligan, who had to drop out due to a very recently disclosed scheduling conflict. Cuomo, who has been battling various…

Several years ago, I spent Monday nights playing competitive team trivia at Revolution Hall in Troy, and Marc Pallozzi was the co-host of those highly competitive events. A few months later, he joined me on my own Street Academy trivia team, and he was on the squad when Street Academy won the second of our…

Arguably, one of the most potent authors of my youth was Beverly Cleary. All those great stories with Ramona and Beezus, the Quimby sisters; Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy; and a mouse that rode a tiny motorcycle. These were stories about kids just being kids. Lots of amazing stories that are still fun to…

Well, this seems to be some news. Apparently the Canadian Pacific Railway is in major talks with the Kansas City Southern Railroad for a merger. This would create the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad, which would be the first rail service to operate entirely within Canada, the USA and Mexico. That’s something impressive. And it…

If you’ve read my blog for any discernible period of time, you know that there are times when I’ve gone through some personal challenges. Essentially, having a really bad day. When I had a really bad day in ninth grade – for example, that one time when I got off the bus and there were…

Last night, I received an e-mail from the Times Union, where I previously blogged from 2009 to 2017. When I left in 2017, the TU provided me with 8 years of blog posts that enabled me to upload and import them into this chuckthewriter.blog website. Last night, I received an e-mail that the last three…

I have a very microscopic tolerance for anyone who preys on a person’s sympathy – help the kids, help the vets, help the strays – as a backdrop for raising money. While there are charities that I do support, there are others that appear to be charitable in name only. As in, you have no…

So … one day I was up early in the morning, scribbling out my blog for the day – because that’s how I roll, write the blog early in the morning – and there was a new message on my WordPress blog platform. Did I want to turn my blog post into a podcast? Wait,…

So for the past few days, I’ve watched people clutch their pearls and display overt outrage that the estate of Dr. Seuss has removed six books from its catalog, based on the books containing unsuitable and racist imagery. And when people start freaking out over Dr. Seuss – trust me, they’ve not canceled Green Eggs…

I’m still not sure how I feel about this. It’s a nice feature, but … um … Genealogy site MyHeritage.com – you know, the site where they claim if you look far enough into your past, you might find that one of your ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence or something (heck, the only thing…