“You’ve got to watch this show on Netflix called Lilyhammer, it’s the best one on the channel.” “Dude, you have to check out Peaky Blinders. I love this show. It’s on Netflix right now.” “Chuck, you need to watch Stranger Things on Netflix. Trust me on this.” A couple of months ago, I blogged about…
Read MoreTrivia Bowl XIII: The teams are…
On Saturday, February 4, 2017, dozens of teams will compete for the Capital District’s championship of useless knowledge and minutiae, the Trivia Bowl. This is big. And the number of teams competing in this annual challenge keeps growing and growing. So who are this year’s competitors? I’ve got them listed here. Note: some teams have…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, January 26 2017: Ten for Thursday
So what’s up this morning? Anybody have a great story that they read about in the Times Union community and independent blogs? I know you have them. I know you’ve enjoyed them. So let’s share some great ones, shall we? This week’s batch of independent goodness from the Times Union blog community includes: Fran Rossi…
Read MoreLittle Silver Miracles, and why I’m not taking them
On the way home from surgery Monday, I needed to stop at my pharmacy and pick up some pain medication. And two days after my surgery, the pain medication is still in its little prescription bottle. I won’t take the pills. Let me explain why. The pain pills are in the pharmacological classification known as…
Read MoreAfter Monday morning… Surgery Day…
4:00 a.m. Cab arrives to pick me up at my house. It’s Surgery Day. Crack of morn. Today is the day when I stop walking around with a broken foot … and begin walking around with a recovering foot. 4:30 a.m. I arrive at Albany Medical Center. My surgery is first thing in the morning. …
Read MoreGodspeed, Mike Huber
It’s August of 2009, and I still don’t know how Mike Huber found me. But I’m kind of glad he did. I had spent three years blogging, off and on, with a personal online blog. Maybe it was read by three or four people, or maybe two people and a bunch of spambots, I don’t…
Read More“There’s a horse named Frontier Town racing today, Chuck!”
It’s Sunday morning, and as I’m trying to get all my plans together before my surgery date – wash my clothes, some last-minute shopping, a couple of hours blocked out to see La La Land – I received a tweet from my friend Frank. And it was a very interesting tweet. @chuckthewriter hi Chuck,!thought you…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: How’s your medical coverage today?
As many of you know by now, I’m undergoing foot surgery tomorrow. The surgeons will remove the broken bone that isn’t healing properly, and then I’m looking at crutches, casts, orthotics and physical therapy. And while I’m on my last day before the surgery, I figured I’d have a little fun and come up with…
Read MoreTwenty men versus a Chevrolet in a snowbank
Imagine you’re driving along a cold, snowy highway. You think everything’s okay … and then suddenly you lose traction, you don’t negotiate a turn, and you slide off the road and land in a snowy ditch. Ugh. Now you have to figure out how to get back on the road. There’s no traction under your…
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Why didn’t I think of this before?? Oh yeah … I did …
So the other day, I blogged about taking an old Kodak Stereo camera, shooting some pictures of the Toll Gate Ice Cream parlor in Slingerlands, and turning the resulting photos into a three-dimensional cinemagraph. You know… and got this picture for my efforts. And after reading some of the blog comments about the project, I…
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