My friend Mark Pisani lost tons of records while he was on vacation.ย His loss affected me as well. Spin back to college.ย Mark and I attended Hamilton College, and graduated together.ย We were both part of the “Young Turks” who changed the college radio station, WHCL, from an afterthought to a broadcast powerhouse. Mark’s…
Read MoreWeek 9 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Boy did I need this. Nothing like a Thursday night at the Elbo Room and a round of trivia as part of the $2000 money tournament being held there. As of late, I had struggled at the tournament, and although my Street Academy team (which on Thursdays consists of my wife Vicki and me) were…
Read MoreHewlett Packard’s HP customer service doesn’t care about me
An update.ย I’ve already replaced and upgraded my wife’s computer laptop memory.ย As for the hard drive, my Monday night trivia teammate Jeremy has graciously offered to give me his 80 gig EIDE 2.5″ hard drive, as he has no use for it any more now that his electronics setup is SATA-based.ย Thanks, J-Mac. But…
Read MoreSaved by Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron!
It’s a cool spring day, April, 1985. It’s finals week at Hamilton College, and the students who were part of Hamilton’s on-campus radio station, WHCL, switched over from the playlists of alternative pop, new wave and R&B, going for a week-long “Classical Orgy” of finals study music. Yeah, nothing improves your grades more than hearing…
Read MoreRemembering Ruth Wallis and her naughty songs
It’s the late 1990’s.ย I should be home watching the Super Bowl.ย The Patriots are facing the Packers, and it promises to be a sterling matchup. But instead, I’m driving to eastern Connecticut, with the hopes of interviewing a singer whose most popular songs never received a stitch of mainstream radio airplay.ย A person who,…
Read MoreUpgrading my wife’s laptop computer
So here’s the deal.ย My wife Vicki has used an HP Pavilion laptop for the past six years.ย The laptop has some issues with it, but she still uses it for everything from genealogy to photograph storage, and occasional netsurfing. The laptop was state-of-the-art in 2003, but now it’s a dinosaur. The hard drive is…
Read MoreHow to cash in your loose change without LOSING your loose change
I’ve got loose change on my bedside nightstand.ย I’ve got loose change near my computer monitor.ย I’ve poured loose change into two vintage Uncle Sam 3-Coin Register toy banks (actually, one of them is a Maple Leaf 3-Coin Register Bank for my Canadian loose change). The problem with collecting all this loose change is that…
Read MoreCovering the Premier Basketball League’s 2009 Entry Draft
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ I have two settings on my alarm clock.ย If I need to get up at a normal civilized time of the morning – 5:30 a.m., for example – my alarm clock will automatically activate at that moment so the first thing to wake me out of my slumber is 810 AM WGY’s…
Read MoreThe new Hess toy truck is out… and it’s a …
It’s a race car.ย Wow! See this bad boy?ย It might almost make me want to give up my Pontiac 6000 if someone could make a life-size production model!ย Or at least take this bad boy to Daytona or Loudon or Pocono and take a few laps around the track with it. About a week…
Read MoreWeek 8 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Unfortunately, your man was at Midway Airport in Chicago by the time General James asked the first question Thursday night at the $2000 Elbo Room trivia tournament, so Street Academy wasn’t going to gain any playoff points that night. However, he was able to get me the final scores, so I’ve added them to the…
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