Category: Site News

  • At’sa me!

    Not only did I get listed as a contributor to Opinion Journal’s Best of the Web Today, but I did it for what I thought would surely be an obvious note. I’m the one who notified James Taranto of The Onion’s political debate in Chocolate City between those who say we should “get on up”…

  • Where are they now?

    I didn’t know Chaim Mattis Keller was a contributor to Thrilling Detective! The things you find out when you do a Google search.

  • We’re on the map!

    Monitor Duty now appears on the map of the Blogosphere…specifically, as a section of the city of St. Bloggersburg. Thanks to Mr. Arndt for encouraging our enclusion, and big thanks to The Politburo Diktat for “putting us on the map”.

  • Here’s that handy e-mail tool again

    Everyone keeps asking me for that tool that lets you make an e-mail link that can’t be read by spambots and worm viruses. When I met Scott Kurtz he said he needed to get it again. Of course, the link is in the archives, but no one can find it. I promise, when I get…

  • Fanzing plugged on Steven Grant’s board

    Steven Grant didn’t mention us specifically, but a certain someone who wrote in did. (That certain someone being David J. LoTempio of Job Wanted, though he goes unnamed in the article. I can tell because David mentions his Starman article on the concept of family.) David gives some examples of articles on Fanzing which offered…

  • Up to you guys

    Hey MD crew and readers. Just wanted to let you all know that I’m not feeling well today, so it’s up to the rest of the MD staff to post the comic book news links for Tuesday.

  • More publicity for our own Eric Spratling

    Oh, as if Eric’s ego wasn’t swelling enough last week when he was quoted in City Journal and mentioned on Andrew Sullivan’s web site…now that same piece is on the Wall Street Journal’s web site and Front Page Magazine. There’s just going to be no living with the guy now. Meanwhile, I want all of…

  • Snap to it!

    Jeez…I hate those days when I get too busy and no one else is posting. I hadn’t noticed that there wasn’t any Monitor Duty news until late last night. My apologies. I’ll try to make up for it today. Maybe all of our contributors need something like Yoder’s “Corner Kittens” which force you to post…

  • I’ll promote our self-promoter for him

    Eric Spratling, contributor to Monitor Duty, was quoted by Andrew Sullivan and City Journal. Eric reveals all this on Fort Awesome

  • Superheroes and real heroes

    In the late 1970s, I stayed at my grandparents’ antique-filled house in Illinois for a few days. Looking for something to do, I found a pile of comics. They were beat up, as though someone had read them many times. Ghost stories. Horror stories. Superhero tales. There was Man-Thing and Ghosts and Witching Hour, World’s…