According to the Redding, Calif. Record-Searchlight, Patrick Brooks walked into a check-cashing store in Redding and handed the teller a check, made payable to Mr. Brooks, from the Cottonwood Bible Baptist Church. The cashier immediately noticed that the check – which had the Cottonwood Bible Baptist Church address on it – was altered so that…
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“I have Larry Flynt on the phone for you, Mr. Miller…”
True story. Believe me, this is as true as true can get. In early 2005, I was a featured writer for Goldmine Magazine, the music collector’s biweekly. I wanted to pitch an idea to them – an article on cheesecake album covers. Cheesecake album covers featured beautiful women – many of them almost wearing clothing…
Read MoreThe Ghost Blogger
No, I’m not talking about a blog written by Casper, Zack Wheat or one of those peripheral characters on Charmed. Let’s say you currently author a weblog. But your life is busy with outside obligations and you just don’t have time to park your gluteus maximus in your chair and type a blog post. Next…
Read MoreA rare video clip of double-entendre singer Ruth Wallis
Back in 2009, one of my early blog posts was about 1950’s-1960’s cabaret singer Ruth Wallis, one of the legends of the “blue party” records. Her songs couldn’t be purchased in legitimate record stores, but if you knew someone who knew someone, you could get a copy of her albums – usually they were stored…
Read MoreReturning to a relationship I thought was permanently dead, thanks to The Din
It was a relationship that had its ups and its downs. There were times when I enjoyed being a part of it – I boasted to everybody about how lucky and fortunate I was that we were together. And there were days when I wished we never met each other. And one day – just…
Read MoreOMG, LOL, where’s ♥ in my bag of Scrabble tiles?
The Oxford English Dictionary has just announced the addition of several new words and phrases, as well as the update of over 40,000 definitions, in its most recent update. In addition to such words as “Ego-surfing” (to search on the Internet for one’s own name or business), “muffin top” (and I don’t mean the upper…
Read MoreChuck Miller’s Round Table: Featuring Speed Racer, Boo Boo Bear and Jem of the Holograms
In the past, I’ve authored several magazine columns on subjects ranging from 45 RPM records to the activities of hockey booster clubs. One column, however, only lasted a single showing – and that was because the magazine in which it was published folded like a cheap suit. Background. In the early 1990’s, I wrote for…
Read More30 years of pre-computer blogging
How far can you trace your blog back? A year? Two years? Three? If I were to count all the newspaper and magazine columns I wrote before I ever got involved in the online observational world, I could convincingly argue that I have been blogging for thirty years. Of course, those thirty years were in…
Read MoreHaving fun with Google Translate
When it comes to languages, I speak three languages very fluently. I speak American English, I speak Canadian English and I can speak Australian English. That’s it, mate. Good on ya, eh? Now there are online services out there that can translate websites from one language to another, and can translate your English websites into…
Read MoreThe day my editor got his skull fractured on the corner of Partridge and Yates Streets
No, no, not Michael Huber. We want nothing bad to ever happen to Michael Huber. Ever. Between 1995 and 1997, I wrote sports articles for a Capital District monthly sports newspaper, CD Sports. At the time, I was working for the minor league hockey monthly paper Hockey Ink!, and I needed a more steady gig…
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