For those of you who are visiting my blog for the first time, welcome. Every so often I put together a musical blog playlist of ten songs with a theme or an underlying connection. I call it “K-Chuck Radio,” and it’s a great little playlist to listen to while you’re at work, or even if…
Read MoreAnother win for the TU Community Bloggers
If you know me by now, you understand that I am extremely supportive of my fellow Times Union community bloggers. Heck, I set aside my blog every Thursday to champion their posts and to promote their writings. And I do this because, in the past, the TU has eschewed promoting their work in favor of…
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Is this Lodge’s coin still good?
Way back in the day, Albany – like most metropolitan cities and towns – had businesses that would offer their own coinage for purchasing that company’s wares. There are several examples of “Civil War” coinage, in which someone could redeem a token to a merchant in exchange for flour or fruit. I came across this…
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When Raskolnikov doesn’t do what I want it to do…
So although I’ve been able to knock things out of the park with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 ultrawide camera “Raskolnikov,” not every experimental shot that camera has produced has proved successful. I suppose that’s the nature of the beast; you fail until you succeed. It’s part of the learning process. One thing I definitely learned regarding…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, March 26, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Yes, everybody, it’s the Thursday morning blog recap of ten awesome community and independent blogs by ten independent and community bloggers. In other words, this is the weekly blog recap that doesn’t include “hot mugshot guy” staff blogs. Trust me on this. This week’s blog posts include: Comptroller Michael Connors’ blog, “Strike Three!!! Albany County…
Read MoreThe difference between satire and offensiveness
Let’s get a few things straight, right at the top of this blog post. When I saw Brianna Snyder’s On The Edge blog post yesterday about the mug shot of the person who robbed a store in Clifton Park and whose accomplice held the cashier up at gunpoint – and how Brianna joked about how…
Read MoreAmish Mafia episode review: “Day of Reckoning”
Before I start this week’s Amish Mafia review, I want to wish former Amish Mafia star Esther Freeman Schmucker a speedy recovery; I understand she had a tumor removed from her bladder. Unfortunately, I suspect she still has that other tumor named MirKat still attached to her body. What, too soon? As always, the Amish…
Read MoreFormer Albany Patroon wins $1M in lottery, opens DC restaurant
You probably don’t remember Michael Graham. If you do, it was for his one year in college as a member of the NCAA championship-winning Georgetown Hoyas. Yes, the Hoyas that had Patrick Ewing and John Thompson, the big star-studded Georgetown Hoyas. Well, for the 1985-86 season, Michael Graham was a member of the Albany Patroons. …
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Half of my photos are ready for the Spectrum 8 show…
I’m one of those people who prepare waaaaaaaaaay ahead of time for an event. And with that in mind, I’ve been crafting my dozen artworks for my upcoming gallery show at the Spectrum 8 theater. The show, which still doesn’t have a title as of yet, will feature signed and dated ready-to-display prints of some…
Read MoreABC’s “The Lexicon of Love” is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
During the early 1980’s, I enjoyed listening to a ton of British new wave and new romantic pop music, and a pop group whose music sneaked up on me and caught my attention was the band ABC. With soulful lyrics from Martin Fry and production work by Trevor Horn and the members of Art of…
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