I want to take you back to at least 1979. If you had cable television back then (and in the Capital District, you would have had either Capital Cablevision, Troy NewChannels or Schenectady Cablevision), one of the benefits of cable was that you could watch cartoons after school on WPIX-11 New York City, WSBK-38 Boston,…
Read MoreTesting My New TU Curse Words Blog Filter
So I was talking with Michael Huber, the editor of the Times-Union blog universe, and he alerted me that although the higher-ups at the TU enjoy my daily blogs, and that I’m in the upper third of all TU blog posters (of course, we all know who’s the #1 blog poster – natch, it’s Capital…
Read MoreSheldon Souray was my brother for about a year
Hockey fans have probably heard of Edmonton’s Shedon Souray. He’s got a slapshot that could put a puck through a brick wall. He’s a force on the ice, and one of the Oilers’ most popular players.
And during the 1996-97 AHL hockey season, I found out he was my brother. At least for that year.
Read MoreGeneral Electric and the Wedding of Mindy and Scott
I don’t know Mindy or Scott.ย I don’t know how they met.ย I don’t know how he proposed to her.ย I don’t know why they chose the Glen Sanders Mansion on May 1, 2010 for their wedding. But I do know, however, that they have good taste in photography. I shall now explain. Last summer,…
Read MoreTrivia Bowl 6 – and the winner is…
Wolf’s 1-11 was packed to the rafters with trivia teams.ย Classic teams like Lynch’s Mob and Tres Hombres and Stern Fans.ย New trivia teams like See You Next Tuesday and Send It In Jerome and Origami Swans.ย And solid consistent squads like Clay Aiken’s Skidmarks, Brown Van Experience and Woo Hoo a Go Go.ย The…
Read MoreThe top New York Governor Scandals of all-time
I’m telling you… I can’t wait for the big bombshell the New York Times plans to drop on Governor David Paterson.ย I’ve heard every sort of rumor about what the big bombshell will be – does the Governor have another woman on the side, is he and his wife into “the lifestyle,” is this all…
Read MoreKookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Men at Work gotta pay royalty
I realize we’ve come to a point in music history where the melody of almost every song is derived from another song written years ago.ย Sometimes these issues can be quickly resolved, such as Mike Oldfield receiving a writer’s credit on Paul Hardcastle’s Vietnam-sampled dance track “19” because one of the melodies in the 1985…
Read MoreMemories of Trivia Bowl V: 2009
Now, the final recap of a previous Trivia Bowl.ย This one took place in February 2009, and I was looking forward to a tough competition at Broadway Joe’s in downtown Albany. And it was a very tough competition.ย It looked like 40 different teams had hunkered down at Broadway Joe’s, and the hosts from Baker’s…
Read MoreRevolution Hall Monday Night Trivia goes away after this coming Monday
Conan O’Brien got better treatment. Here’s the situation.ย Back around September or so, Brown’s Brew Pub moved their Wednesday night trivia games to Monday nights at Revolution Hall.ย Marc Palozzi and Anthony Chiera were hired to replace Zack Hilton as trivia hosts, and people could watch the Monday Night Football game on a big screen…
Read MoreTimes Union snubs the Albany Patroons once again
I always wondered if our fair newspaper has something against the legendary minor league basketball team.ย For years, as an Albany Patroons fan, I used to grimace when reading team coverage in the TU – there would be articles about how the Patroons were going to move the franchise to another city, how the team…
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