In order to use my film cameras, I have to find a suitable supply of – you guessed it – film. 35mm film? No problem. I can feed my Nikon F100 and Nikon EM cameras all day on 35mm film. I can get 120 film for my Rollei, and I can respool it onto 620…
Read MoreIs Collarworld’s Vincent really Trey Anastasio from Phish?
Popular music is subject to interpretation. Heck, you could use lyrics and album art to find clues that Paul McCartney is dead and Elvis Presley is alive. And somehow, without my knowledge, apparently one of my Collarworld chapters has found interpretations far beyond what I could ever imagine. Background. A few weeks ago, I wrote…
Read MoreVanguard saves the day!
I could sit here and use this blog as a place to vent my frustrations with corporate America. Yeah, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, I’m talking to you. But I’m not talking to you today. Because today I want to talk about some decent customer service. And it comes from Vanguard, the company that manufactures my…
Read MoreHamilton College made #12
My friend and college classmate Laura posted a message on my Facebook wall over the weekend, where she alerted me that the website bestcollegevalues.org chose their 50 most beautiful colleges in autumn – and of those fifty colleges, our alma mater, Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., made it all the way to #12. Yeah, apparently…
Read MoreThe Princess Bride on the Royale with Cheese Movie Club
Chuck, how in the world have you NEVER seen The Princess Bride? Oh my God this is the greatest fairy tale of our time and you’ve never seen it? Inconceivable. Inconceivable. What in the world is wrong with you? Hey, cut me a break. That’s what the Royale With Cheese Movie Club is designed for…
Read MoreKurt Busch is an idiot
You know what? I actually believed NASCAR driver Kurt Busch had changed. No. He hasn’t. Kurt Busch – who had been released from high-profile rides with Jack Roush and with Roger Penske – and at one point was holding on with a couple of single-car no-funds-in-the-bank teams – had rehabbed his image and his reputation…
Read MoreThe cleaning
I looked at my iTunes directory the other day. Over 4,300 songs. That’s too many. Recently I purchased a last-generation iPod Classic 160g music player, with the specific plans of keeping that bad boy for the rest of my music-enjoying life. And when I synched the iPod up to my iTunes computer storage program, I…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, November 6, 2014: Ten for Thursday
Hey, everybody, it’s time for a review of ten quality excellent blogs by the Times Union’s community blogging crew. Did your favorites make the list? Do you want to read somebody’s new posts that you previously haven’t considered? So here’s ten great blog posts – and I hope you enjoy reading them. They include: Mary…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Time for the Funk Bounce
It’s one of the best ways to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder – I gather up as many classic 60’s hits and blast them in my car. Right now my SiriusXM radio in the Blackbird is tuned to channel 49, “Soul Town,” classic 60’s and 70’s Motown and Philly soul hits. And I feel like sharing…
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One short day with Cassaundra
My daughter Cassaundra is visiting Albany for just a few days. I have only a precious short amount of time I can spend with her, in that she has so many people who want to see her before she has to fly back to Washington State. How do you pack a year of what’s going…
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