Chuck The Writer

I still can’t believe I put this together. I also still can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner. A little background. I’ve covered the Vocal Group Hall of Fame inductions since the first one was held in 1998. In 2001, I started taking pictures along with my written coverage, both for Goldmine and Billboard…

Poestenkill Gorge waterfalls, Troy, New YorkOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter Of the four photos I wanted to submit to the Altamont Fair photo competition, one of the quartet just didn’t grab me. Try as I might, I could not get a decent capture of the Oakwood Cemetery waterfall without climbing down a very unsafe ravine. I…

There’s a new web-based 5-minute TV series, produced by NBC, called CTRL. Here’s a link to the episodes via Hulu. The show is based on a 2008 Sundance film festival entry, in which a nebbish office worker discovers that, thanks to an accident involving spilled tea on his computer keyboard, now gives him the power…

Robert Bradley is an expert in the history of professional basketball. He’s the head person behind the Association for Professional Basketball Research, an organization similar to the SABR people who chart baseball’s history. So when he contacted me the other day and asked if I had any information on the Continental Basketball Association standings for…

This is absolutely funny. And it’s great. And it’s ironic. Here’s the deal. This musician, Dave Carroll, from the band Sons of Maxwell, was on tour and was waiting for his United flight to take off, when a passenger on that plane looked out the window and said that the plane loading crew were tossing…

I scrimped. I saved. I went without. But on Friday, I was able to finally realize my goal. Backstory. From 2005 to the present, I worked with a Nikon D70 camera. I actually purchased this camera to replace my Nikon Coolpix 800, which I had owned since maybe 1999. At the time, the Albany Patroons…

Competitive team trivia is just that – competitive. Everybody talks trash before the event starts, we all cheer if we get the right answer, we all grumble when the answer is horribly wrong, and in the end we congratulate the winning team, chat for a while, and go home. Unfortunately, in the four-plus years I’ve…

Normally, when I received invitations to join Facebook, I dismissed them as unrequested spam – especially when it was tagged as “your friend wants you to join…” without mentioning who my “friend” was. Be that as it may, today was a surprise. I received ten different facebook requests – and all of them came from…