Saturday started out wonderful. And it ended up as one of the worst days of my life. I shall explain that story by telling you another story. Mike Lent was a classmate of mine at Hamilton College, he was an ’86, a year behind me. He was a fun guy, great for conversation, the kind…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 18 2021
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. This is the last weekend before Christmas, so if you’re looking for something to do inbetween wrapping your presents and backing your cookies, then definitely check out the blogs and podcasts and photos from the wonderful people that populate my blogroll. BLOGS FOR TASTE Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,”…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 17, 2021
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 broadcast is the annual Nightowl Radio Show Holiday Spectacular, featuring Christmas and Hanukkah music from all over the world, and from…
Read MoreI see your SOL and raise you a Chuckycoin.
Oh, this is hilarious. Melania Trump, the cross-eyed, raccoon-mascaraed succubus of the former President, is now offering the ultimate in a vanity project. She’s going to sell digital watercolor non-fungible tokens of images of her eyes to willing suckers. Oh, I kid you not. No, seriously. Melania Trump is offering NFT’s of digital watercolor prints…
Read MoreSynchro-Vox: The lips move, but not much else.
Imagine producing an animated children’s TV show in the late 1950’s. You don’t have the same budget to make the theatrical cartoons that Disney and Warner Bros. and MGM had. You have to cut corners. You have to be creative. And from this, I bring you Cambria Studios and their budget-basement invention. Synchro-Vox. Synchro-Vox gave…
Read MoreChugging on the Candy Cane Express…
The last time I visited Santa’s Workshop in the Adirondacks was maybe as a kid. I don’t remember very much about it, maybe I fed a reindeer, maybe I told Santa what I wanted for Christmas, I don’t remember. But upon scouting some images and ideas for future photographic endeavors… I came across this. Santa’s…
Read MoreSo that’s what a ricer does?
So of late, I’ve tried to make scratch-built mashed potatoes. Well, at least “bachelor cooking” mashed potatoes. And I think I found out what I’ve been doing wrong all this time. I’ve nuked potatoes in the microwave and then tried to mash them with a fork. Doesn’t work. I’ve tried roasting tinfoil-wrapped potatoes in the…
Read MoreFull frontal nudity on Yellowstone last night.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I binge-watched the first three seasons of the modern Western drama Yellowstone. The show’s good, I’ll give you that. It’s got sweeping cinematic vistas, it’s got complicated storylines straight out of Dallas or Dynasty or Empire, and Kevin Costner chews the scenery every time he’s on camera. Oh yeah, and because…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: No, the worst Christmas songs of all time are…
I was inspired to write this blog after reading a tweet from my friend Jerry Papandrea (he’s the guy who has the DerryX YouTube food channel). Yeah … no. The Santa Claus version by Springsteen has its charm, especially when you realize that Springsteen essentially did a Springsteen-esque version of the uptempo track that was…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 11 2021
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. As is the custom on Saturday, I step away from the blog so that others on my blogroll may receive the exposure. Which, if you think about it, is a good thing. Bloggers supporting bloggers. So let’s get started, shall we? BLOGS FOR TASTE The Burnt My Fingers blog,…
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