Bachelor Cooking: Bacon-Burger-Dogs (a/k/a “Shotgun Shells”)

Apparently there’s a tasty concoction among the barbecue cognoscenti that creates something called a “shotgun shell,” meat stuffed in a pasta and wrapped in bacon and grilled. Okay, you could arguably call them “cholesterol bullets,” but that’s on you. I don’t own a barbecue grill. So I have to modify this recipe for my oven.…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for April 21, 2023

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. Yeah, my voice is completely shot. Battled a bad cold and it really took a lot out of me. Trying to broadcast…

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Holy crap, we got a new Venture Bros. episode coming soon!!!

The Venture Bros. was undoubtedly one of the true bosses of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block. A show dedicated to the excitement and mythos of those 1960’s Jonny Quest Hanna-Barbera action shows, mixed with a ton of satire and pop-culture references, and a level of world-building not seen on television animated circles. Wild adventures,…

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This is why some comments to my blog end up in the trash.

When my blog was part of the Times Union’s collection of community weblogs, there used to be a rule among approval of comments. All comments had to be approved, no matter whether they disagreed with you or not. It was only under unique circumstances – i.e., clearance with the Times Union blog leader – that…

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Gatorade Zero Lime Cucumber drink tastes like ass. There, I said it.

I like Gatorade Zero. It’s refreshing and it’s a low-sugar alternative for me. Usually I get the orange Gatorade Zero or the blue Gatorade Zero or the white Gatorade Zero, they all taste great. Yesterday, I tried this Gatorade Zero formula. That’s right. Gatorade Zero – lime cucumber flavor. Listen, I’m thinking it’s just a…

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What does a bicolor sunflower look like as a latched hook rug?

I said I wasn’t doing any more of these latched hook rugs. Yeah, and just like a New Year’s Resolution, I did it anyway. The plan was to use up the one leftover latched hook canvas and whatever yarns I still had from my NEBA/Mike’s latched hook project from last year. Went through my photos…

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Wait, there’s a BlackBerry movie coming out?? Seriously?!?

Longtime readers of this blog know that for as long as I’ve had cell phones, I’ve been a BlackBerry loyalist. Trust me, I stuck with the ‘Berry through eight different iterations, until Verizon’s network would no longer support by ‘Berry and I was forced to change to a Google Pixel 6 Pro. I say “forced…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for April 14, 2023

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. Tonight’s episode contains a mix of various dance tracks, an early rock and roll classic, and a blending between a 1960’s guitar…

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