What’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 26 2022

Good Saturday morning, everyone. Looks like we’re going to get a nice peaceful weekend, and I could really use one of those. So let’s start Saturday off right with a review of the blogs and podcasts and photos that exist on my personal blogroll. And here they are. BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with…

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The McGowan Firehouse Project

I recently created an art image by superimposing a vintage postcard of St. Joseph’s Church in Green Island into a current photo at that same location. I liked it. Liked it a lot. I thought it was good enough to enter into competition. As I said … it’s good enough. But the more I look…

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K-Chuck Radio: The musical tree of “Ida Red”

There is an old adage that nothing is truly created; it is inspired by what came before. Such is the case with the song “Ida Red.” “Ida Red” is a song that can trace its roots back to an old folk song from the 1870’s called “Saturday Night,” by composer Frederick W. Root. But the…

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A little league field needs a scoreboard. How can you tell who’s winning without a scoreboard?

Background. Last Saturday, I had a wonderful Date Night. Lunch at the Cheesecake Factory – spoiler alert: they sell lots of cheesecakes – then an afternoon of gambling at Rivers Casino. And surprisingly, both of us left with more money than we brought (she hit 5-of-a-kind on a Joker Poker machine and had no idea…

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The lost “Conflict” episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Let’s get one thing straight. I appreciate Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. I enjoyed it as a kid, and I still have a fondness for it as an adult. And if you really want to know, I was a Daniel Striped Tiger fan. Not the one in Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, but the one that was made of…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for March 18, 2022

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 show features music inspired by, or referencing, the legendary Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton, the fighter for truth,…

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