After a reboot of the DVR to recapture full utility of my Time Warner Cable On Demand, I sat down to the first two episodes of “The Odd Couple,” the pilot last night and this week’s follow-up this morning. So now I must admit it. My teeth-gnashing regarding Matthew Perry filling the shoes of my…
As I get set to watch my Maryland Terrapins host the Michigan Wolverines at the Xfinity Center in College Park on my flat screen at noon today, I’m still smiling abourt the way my squad handled the No. 5 team in the country on Tuesday night. Yes, serving Wisconsin just its third loss of the…
I know you guys know Angie from her Kentucky Angels blog. Well, this smart woman has started a second blog, and it’s a colorful one. Fifty Shades of Angie starts with a photo of her yarn. It’s a big batch. Needs to be seen. This story says we need to have hope. Perfect for this…
The Guise, “Forthcoming,” Sound Ideas Music I popped “Forthcoming” into my car CD player and said to myself, “yup,” as soon as the first notes of “You Never Know” hit my ears. No way had I heard this song written and being played by The Guise before. But I knew it was going to make…
WordPress reminded me this morning that I’ve been toiling over a hot blog for two years now. Well, some posts heat up our WordPress world here more than others, obviously. That’s the nature of this give, where I sit here on my recliner in the Little Bitty I share with my dear wife Karen in…
Billy Crystal was a pretty darn good host of The Oscars back in his day. Ellen Degeneres was a really good host of The Oscars just one year ago. Sunday night Neil Patrick Harris was a train wreck. I wrote about it as part of my weekly Film News blog for the Syracuse New Times…
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Chow Downey, master of ceremonies at Syracuse’s St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser for pediatric cancer research, readies an encouraging fist-bump to a young “shavee” about to go bald for a good cause. It takes thousands of volunteers and donors to raise almost $500,000 for pediatric cancer research at one event. It also takes one…
It may take awhile until the golf courses of Syracuse are green enough and dry enough to accept these first spring steps. And I’ll pretty much play in the brown muck to get out there for initial swings with my longtime golf buddies KP and Tater. This February, though, has crushed our spirit in cold…
You have to want to get to the studio of WVOA-FM out on the eastern outskirts of Syracuse. James Austin had asked me to be a guest on the new music and entertainment hour he hosts with Scott Johnson that’s broadcast online and over the air, so I drove the snowy Wednesday night down 298,…
When the coach played by Kevin Costner in “McFarland, USA” takes one look at the the situation he’s gotten he and his family into, he’s an unhappy fellow. But then Jim White learns he shouldn’t just assume stuff, a pretty good lesson for a man who’s a teacher. And by the time the Disney movie…
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