I heard the chants from the Chicago auditorium. “Four More Years! Four More Years!! Four More Years!!!” And part of me was cheering that same mantra from my couch in New York. Because I didn’t want to see Barack Obama leave the Oval Office. I didn’t. Because as far as I was concerned, he wasn’t…
Read MoreSeven months later … did the lizard and the stag finally blink?
Last summer, when my car was destroyed in a nasty highway accident, I was forced to deal with competing insurance companies for reimbursement of various out-of-pocket expenses, including a $300 car rental bill to get from North Carolina back to Albany. The vehicle in front of me – a camper whose bicycles became detached from…
Read MoreBuh-bye, Flipper … and buh-buy OBJ…
It’s a good day to be a Pittsburgh Steelers football fan. Because, let’s face it. When the Steelers lost that 30-15 game earlier this year to the Miami Dolphins, where Jay Ajayi ran all over the Black and Gold like they were the Yellow Brick Road and he was Dorothy, I’m sure that every Steeler…
Read MoreWas that a flying robot I just saw on TV?
I couldn’t sleep. This happens a lot to me of late. So I started playing Time Warner Cable Roulette and started cycling through channels I never knew existed. And lo and behold, I found a station called Comet TV. No, it’s not a station devoted to kitchen cleansers. Apparently Comet TV shows limited-run science fiction…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: How to Mess with Smash Mouth
There’s an old joke that goes like this. “If the bands Smash Mouth and Nickelback were trapped on a sinking ship, who would eventually be saved?” The answer – “My eardrums!” Ha. But let’s face it. One of the most played out songs of the last 15 years has to be Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” …
Read MoreEktachrome rises from the dead…
Five years ago, I lamented the demise of Kodak Ektachrome film, a beautiful slide film with amazing tonal quality and grain. I thought I would have to live on Fuji Velvia (the last mass-produced slide film) and old frozen Ektachrome stock. That was until recent news. According to PetaPixel, the company that holds the Kodak…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, January 5 2017: Ten for Thursday
It’s Thursday, and you know what that means. Yes, including meaning another episode of The Big Bang Theory on Channel 6 tonight. It’s time for me to go through the blogs written by the Times Union’s independent and community bloggers, the ones that write for this portal for the joy and love of sharing their…
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January motivations
Trying to stay motivated while you’re waiting for surgery is brutal. But I have to persevere. There’s no other way around it. Get up in the morning. Write a blog post. Then go on with my day. And it’s tough. I know that there’s so many issues ahead that I must counter. But I have…
Read MoreShould I follow the “Emerald City” yellow brick road?
Apparently this new television show has been years in the filming, years in the writing, and years in the anticipation. NBC plans to air a ten-episode limited series that features a re-imagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz in a futuristic, fantasy setting, with the show called Emerald City. Here’s a sneak clip of…
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Faith and Frost at Frontier Town
This is my one chance to try this. My one and only chance, in this one and only location. And if I screw this up… for sure, I’ll never get another opportunity. Never. Because the location will disappear as soon as the bulldozers and the demolition crews arrive. I must prepare and I must persevere.…
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