I remember the original Battlestar Galactica series as if it was on just yesterday. For a kid who grew up with the one-two sci-fi punch of Star Trek and Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica was an entirely different animal for me – I saw the show as a retelling of the Biblical story of Exodus. What…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Freestylin’ and Profilin’
Freestyle music was a popular dance and club groove that crossed over to pop radio in the mid-1980’s. The super-fast Latin beat, often accentuated with drum machines and sequencers, blended nicely with beautiful and talented vocalists who sang about love and loneliness. So on today’s K-Chuck Radio, I thought some nice bouncy tracks from the…
Read MoreGloat now, Patriots fans…
Yeah, I know, I know. I counted my chickens before they were hatched. I watched the Atlanta Falcons slap the New England Patriots around for three quarters of football. I watched Matt Ryan and Julio Jones and the rest of the team treat Tom Brady like he was Marcia Brady catching a football. #owmynose And…
Read MoreThe results of Trivia Bowl XIII
I’ve missed too much in the past few months. And I need to return to some semblance of normalcy. And for me, “normalcy” began Saturday afternoon. And that began with my return, for the first time in months, to competitive team trivia. Background. For a while, I was doing trivia recaps at Graney’s Stout for…
Read MoreBury my heart at Bowling Green
I still remember that solemn morning. February 31st. A date which will live in infamy. That horrible, horrible morning when the invasion took place. We weren’t prepared for it. They came from everywhere. Machines that shot lasers and destroyed our businesses and our homes. Children running in the streets, screaming prayers for their lives. There…
Read MoreA casting change
Two weeks have passed since my foot surgery. And for two weeks, my left leg and foot have been wrapped in cotton and fiberglass and gauze and Ace bandages and tape. For all intents and purposes, I’ve been immobilized. I’ve spent the past two weeks in my home, my only travel excursions were limited to…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Bloggers, February 2, 2017: Ten for Thursday
So if I see my shadow this morning, does this mean I get six more weeks of rehabilitation on my surgically repaired foot? Ha. Groundhog Day jokes never get old. But in all honesty, the more important listing about whether or not a groundhog sees his shadow is what our Times Union community and independent…
Read MoreI miss Henry’s Meat Market in Waterford…
I stumbled across Henry’s Meat Market in Waterford a few years ago, essentially by accident. I was hungry and looking for new eateries in the vicinity of the Town and Village of Green Island … and all of a sudden, I found this little mom-and-pop butcherie in a small strip mall just over the Route…
Read MoreBye-bye, Tilted Kilt. You will not be missed.
After nine months in that little strip plaza next to what used to be Mohawk Mall, the Tilted Kilt brewery and eatery “breastaurant” in Schenectady has finally died out. And honestly, I am not surprised. Nor could I care. Because I gave Tilted Kilt at least two tries to succeed. And both times … they…
Read MoreCollarworld: A master’s purpose
“Mourire!” Three little hamsters – Cupcake, Truffle and Bacardi, the Royal Order of Ancient Carissima Hamsters – called in the Ashen Forest for the white-pawed black cat. “Mourire!!” Two eyes pierced from under a shaded tree branch. “What do you little rodents want?” “We have a message from St. Francis of Assisi,” chirped Truffle. “He…
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