Author: thehutch

  • I want a G.I. Joe and a pony. Oh, and Vice City.

    A few weeks ago I posted about the Amazon wishlists, getting some of the other MonitorDuty posters and commenters to share theirs. I thought I’d pass on a site I’ve found useful, now that it’s holiday shopping season. My Amazon wishlist is six pages long because it’s mostly for self-reference. I’ll read an article about,…

  • Pat Morita 1932-2005

    Oscar-Nominated Actor Pat Morita Dies One of Pat’s final roles was voicing “himself” for the Karate Kid parody “Enter The Fat One” on the “S&M Present” episode of Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken. In it, Pat Morita counsels Joey Fatone in martial arts so that he may avenge the deaths of his bandmates.

  • It’s not “Turkey Day”…but here’s a turkey

    One past Thanksgiving, my wife’s coworkers had a fun competition where they all took a coloring book picture of a turkey and each was supposed to submit a finished colored pic for judging. As a joke, Melinda had me send it to digital colorist Roz Terrill, who did this version with leaf patterns, shadows, highlights…

  • Giving Thanks At MonitorDuty.com

    Holidays usually mean a lean time for postings due to visiting relatives and limited computer access, so I want to leave you with this. (Having written that, I’ll probably post a dozen times now.) Here’s my list of things for which I’m thankful. Well, Monitor Duty-related things, or we’d be here all night. I’m not…

  • New M. Night Shyamalamalan movie

    The Lady In The Water movie looks interesting, but I have no clue what it’s going to be about.

  • Dr. Who news that’ll have you dancing

    This really makes my day: Sidekick K9 returns to Doctor Who! Robot dog K9 will be reunited with Doctor Who in the new series after 24 years apart, say the show’s producers. K9 and Sarah Jane Smith will return for one episode. K9 will be voiced by John Leeson again. I wonder whether they’ll improve…

  • Soar Campaign ending 11/25

    Recently Best Buy approached me to run an ad for their new online trailer for the movie “Soar.” I watched the trailer and found it entertaining (I hope you’ve all clicked on it and seen the trailer; it is hilarious), so I agreed. Up til now, I hadn’t ever run ads to pay for this…

  • King Kong on Turner Classic Movies tonight!

    Libertas points out that King Kong will be on Turner Classic Movies. I think this will give me the proper motivation to hook up my cable box tonight. I’ve been paying extra for the expanded range of movies on my cable, except that it requires the use of this box that I really don’t want…

  • South Park controversy on CNN!

    Here is the video which CNN is running that covers the recent controversial anti-Scientology episode of South Park. You have to love that CNN cites Madonna for a quote because she practices Kabbalah…which, by the way, is nothing like Scientology. (I’m guessing it’s because no Scientologist would give them a quote.) Madonna says that, “I…

  • Uptown Girl Movie on DVD!

    The Uptown Girl movie on DVD which I covered two weeks ago is now available for purchase Bob Lipski’s online store. I covered the Uptown Girl movie and gave it a brief review in my FallCon 2005 update. I see you can also get an Uptown Girl short story for free just by e-mailing Bob.…