Yesterday, I began a new, year-long betting scheme.โI would concentrate on one horse at Saratoga Harness – a horse officially named Pay Me To Knight, but known at his Checkmate Stable home barn as Junior.โA simple bet.โ$20 on his nose to win the race he enters. So let’s test this theory out. Junior’s first race…
Read MoreSo you’re telling me they’ve got lots of cameras for Sunday’s game?
The Super Bowl is not only the most-watched television event of the year, it’s also the most detailed in camera work.โThe hosting network will feature hundreds of cameras from various angles and from unprecedented locations, to give the fans a totally immersible experience.โ And they’ve even got one set of cameras based on something that…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 3 2024
Good morning everybody.โTime for another recap from the wonderful blog posts and photographs and observations from my blog’s personal blogroll.โHope you all enjoy. Looks like WordPress did something AGAIN to fiddle with blog links (or what they call “a routine upgrade of services”), so if any blog links look wonky or incorrect, let me know…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 2, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreMaybe I’ll bring this back as a late entry for Competition Season.
The rotting carcass of Central Warehouse, a former cold-storage facility in Albany’s downtown district, has put the “sore” in eyesore for ages.โAnd every company that purchased it has promised they would do something to revitalize it … and the edifice just stands there, oblivious to time and oblivious to renovation. So … now comes news…
Read MoreMel-O-Toons: Cheap cartoons for weekday enjoyment
Follow along with me on this. In my childhood years, there was a simple plan on who would take care of me.โDuring the school year, I would stay with my mother and stepfather in whatever double-deep, double-wide trailer park they were located.โAnd as soon as the school year ended, my Grandma Betty and my great-grandmother…
Read MoreHe entered my room, and I couldn’t move my body.
This happened two weeks ago.โAnd even today, I’m still running it through my mind, trying to figure out what happened. Background. The Town and Village of Green Island suffered a major power outage, which lasted all the way into night time.โAnd rather than stay in my apartment in the dark, I called the Red Roof…
Read MoreIt’s not like Taylor Swift was the first pop culture icon to get involved with a sports figure.
I swear, the MAGA chuds out there are losing their goddamned minds.โThey’re freaked out because pop singer / actress Taylor Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce.โLike this is some completely unacceptable vision for these cross-eyed MAGA chumpstains.โ First off, let’s get something straight.โTaylor Swift is not the first pop culture icon to…
Read MoreMan with no legs battles man with no arms!
Who doesn’t love a good kung fu movie?โThe action, the drama, the sound effects, the excitement … But there are times when it seems as if kung fu movies are repetitive.โThe same plotline.โThe same action sequences. Which brings me to this film from 1979.โIn America, the film was released as The Crippled Masters, and it…
Read MoreThe $20 Junior Challenge
Every year, Times Union sportswriter Tim Wilkin would take an “imaginary” $1,000 bankroll to the Saratoga Race Course, and through the run of the summer meet, he would bet his “imaginary” funds and chronicle those results in his daily newspaper column.โGood for him.โI hope he paid taxes on all those “imaginary” winnings. ๐ That being…
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