I’ve owned my 2017 Chevrolet Volt Premier (“Lightning’s Girl”) for two years, and it is arguably the best car ever to come into my possession. And thanks to the car’s VOLTEC warranty, I’m covered for 8 years or 100,000 miles from the car’s date of manufacture. So I’ve got 15,000 miles OR one more year…
Read MoreThe $20 Junior Challenge – Race 7
Pay Me To Knight, the harness horse known around the stables as “Junior,” has won two races at Saratoga Harness so far this racing season. He’s also had a close second, a fourth, and a couple of races where he didn’t do as well as usual. This time, he’s back in the sixth race –…
Read MoreThe Venmo $99 Scam
So this just popped up in my email account. Apparently James P. Friedman requested $99 from my Venmo account. Here’s the screenshot. Apparently a few minutes later, someone named Eric Patterson also requested $99 from my Venmo account. Here’s that screenshot. And not a few minutes after THAT … came a $99 request from my…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 16, 2024
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, where everybody drinks green beer and wears novelty T-shirts with phrases like, “I’m Irish, take me drunk, I’m home,” and “My Irish Lass is Erin Go Braghless.” Oh, that one’s a broad-minded concept. Well, that’s for tomorrow. Today, it’s Steve Austin Day. You know … the holiday that comemorates when…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for March 15, 2024
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreI’m sunsetting the Nightowl Radio Show at the end of the summer.
Background. My involvement with radio station WHCL-FM at Hamilton College was arguably my happiest moments on campus. During my undergraduate years, I had a reasonably popular radio show that played a mixture of modern “new music” and whatever else I could rustle out of the record libraries. I named the program the “Nightowl Radio Show,” as a…
Read MorePittsburgh Steelers break tradition, bring in star quarterback from outside the organization
Let me start off by saying that I’ve been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan for as long as I’ve been alive. My support goes all the way back to the days of th Immaculate Reception, through four Super Bowls in the 1970’s, two more Super Bowls a decade ago, James Harrison running a 100-yard Pick 6…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: If we close our eyes and believe it might come true…
Eric Carmen passed away over the weekend. Aged 74. And this morning, when I saw the news of his passing, I realized that for a time in the 1970’s and 1980’s, if you wanted a mixture of power pop and symphonic bombast in your Top 40 tracks … you could count on Eric Carmen without…
Read MoreTen years later … an answer to who was Jerry from Coxsackie
Ten years ago, as I was driving on the New York State Thruway on my way from New York City to Albany, I saw what looked like an old barn along the side of the road. The barn had the word “Jerry’s” on the roof. I eventually pulled over, drove back along Route 81, found…
Read MoreThe $20 Junior Challenge – Race 6
After his nice win last week – giving him two wins on the 2024 Saratoga Harness season – my $20-on-his-nose-each-week stallion Pay Me To Knight (also known as “Junior”) moves over this week to the sixth race. He drew post position $7, with a morning line of 15-1 odds. Why so high? Because in that…
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