God damn it, I got fooled. All us former BlackBerry users got fooled. We were fooled by a big promise from a company that had no plans on fulfilling their promise. Shame on us. Background. About two years ago, BlackBerry announced that their license with Chinese phone company TCL would cease, meaning that the Key…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 12 2022
Yep, it’s Valentine’s Day weekend. So as long as you have all your gifts and flowers and candy and jewelry ready … then you’re good to go. And if not … well, there’s always that old adage. “if your heart // is broken in two // mend your heart // with Krazy Glue.” Don’t laugh.…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 11, 2022 (Special “Wheels of Steel” Edition)
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 pays homage to Grandmaster Flash’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” by playing all the component…
Read MorePenciling April 29, 2022 on my calendar.
In May 2020, during the initial COVID-19 pandemic, America went on lockdown to avoid spreading (and catching) the coronavirus. And during that time, I received a message from my college. Although Hamilton College was on a full-blast “remote learning” mode, there might be a way to use that remote learning technology to continue operating. That…
Read MoreThe one thing we’re all missing about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Gazpacho Police” gaffe
Okay . Let’s get the first thing out of the way. Marjorie Taylor Greene is dumber than a bag of wet mice. As evidenced in this video clip. So let’s get the soup jokes out of the way first. Oh, and I need to call 9-1-1 and report a murder. But here’s the thing we’re…
Read MoreThe driver in the white Hyundai
Oh, what a day. All I want to do is just get home, take my shoes off, and relax. And the traffic on I-787 is looking rough. In fact, as I’m exiting 787 on Exit 8, the traffic looks like an old Boston traffic jam. Memories of the radio traffic reports from the old WEEI…
Read MoreMcDonald’s current “Hacks” menu doesn’t even contain the best hacks.
I’ve written about McDonald’s secret “hacks” menu before. Depending on whether you can get a McDonald’s who has the time to make a special sandwich out of the available ingredients in a “mix and match” method, you can get unique meals that would probably make Ray Kroc wince. Well, recently McDonald’s offered a promotion where…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Three songs with hidden curse words (that still get played on the radio)
There’s a rule in popular music. If your song has a curse word or a barnyard expletive in it – if it’s one of those words George Carlin says you can’t say on television – then you must record an alternate version of the song, either with the offensive word removed, or with an alternate…
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The Results of Trivia Bowl XVII
The first thing to say. I did not win Trivia Bowl XVII this year. And I’m okay with that. The second thing to say is … Lynch’s Mob, who won Trivia Bowl I and II way back when Trivia Nights Live was a one-restaurant Tuesday night game at the Crossgates Mall Hooters, won Trivia Bowl…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, February 5 2022
By the time you read this, I’ll be outside, chiseling that igloo of ice off my car, so that I can attend this afternoon’s Trivia Bowl competition. But before I scrape that snow-cone off of my Chevy, I’m taking some time to go through my personal blogroll and pull out some awesome blog posts and…
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