What kind of baseball pitcher do you like? Hard-throwing fastballers? Wicked sharp curveball experts? The occasional knuckleballer? Well, check these out. I’ve got some of the craziest pitchers out there. Rip Sewell was one of the first pitchers to throw this high lob that made batters swing from the backs of their heels. Back then…
Read MoreSanta looks like a reddit-eyed alien
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the social media site reddit. I was on the site for a while, gave up on it, and then decided to go back to it on my own terms. Recently I signed up for Reddit’s “Secret Santa 2012” event, in which nearly 60,000 Redditors worldwide play the “Secret Santa”…
Read MoreWeek 15 of the $2,000 2012-13 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Do my eyes deceive me? Are they back? Yes they are… back again… it’s the Skids… tell a friend… The trivia team known as the Skidmarks have returned to the Elbo Room for the trivia tournament. Sure the tournament’s three-quarters of the way done, but they said they were going to win big tonight and…
Read More“Amish Mafia” and televised hypocricy
When I saw the initial “coming attractions” trailer for the new Discovery Channel series Amish Mafia, a reality television series that focuses on an enforcement organization that protects the innocent Amish people in Lancaster County, Pa., I couldn’t believe what I saw. And when I say “couldn’t believe,” it’s not a good thing. At first…
Read MoreKicking the 24-hour bug out of Chateau Chuck
It hit Sunday night at the worst possible time. And I mean WORST possible time. I was on a date. We were having dinner, we were staring in each others’ eyes, everything was perfect… And then my stomach just twisted up in knots. Butterflies? Nerves? Live crawfish in my tummy? No. It…
Read MoreMore fun with my lo-fi cameras
As much as I appreciate my Nikon D700 digital camera and my high-end Rolleiflex Automat MX 120 shooter, I still have an affinity for my lo-fidelity cameras and the use of wonky expired film. Case in point. I can get great “industrial” shots out of my 20-year-old expired Ukrainian Svema B&W 120 film, which because…
Read More“You’re wrong, Mr. Miller. You get a C-minus.”
Last Thursday at trivia, my teammate Jeremy McNamara, who besides being a killer Ultimate Disc player is also a chemistry professor – as an aside, J-Mac could rattle off the entire Periodic Table of the Elements without having to sing it Tom Lehrer style – was grading term papers in the middle of the trivia…
Read MoreThe “first date” preparatory guide
So I’ve been single for almost two years now. Hard to believe, right? I know! 🙂 And I’ve gone through the different dating opportunities. Yep, when you’re in your late 40’s and you’re trying to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, you need to make sure everything is put together properly.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The beautiful sounds of…
It’s Sunday morning and I feel like relaxing a little while longer. And thus I plan on breaking out a wee taste of orchestral pop music. Orchestral pop music – not to be confused with the synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – is music in which classical music is modified for the rock…
Read MoreCassaundra thinks of Sandy Hook
My daughter Cassaundra posted this message on her YouTube channel. In this instance, I wanted to share her thoughts with all of my blog readers on this Sunday morn.
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