Category: Site News

  • Glorious new comic collection!

    I’m heading out for the weekend. In case you’ve all noticed the long absences and grumpiness, it’s like this. In the space of two short weeks, my mom has a birthday (today), my parents move into their new home (tomorrow), my dad retires from preaching (had a party last weekend, but it’s officially next week)…

  • Monitor Duty’s Superman Returns Contest

    UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER. COMMENTS CLOSED. To celebrate the debut of “Superman Returns”, Monitor Duty is holding a a contest to give away a Kryptonite Pen and a Superman Returns poster. In reviewing all of the advance publicity about the new Superman movie, I found one intriguing question: why are Superman movies always…

  • Lake House Contest Winners

    The Grand Prize Winner for the Lake House Contest is: “Mary Wingo” The second prize winner is: “Ro Laren” (Ensign Ro?) I will make arrangements for the delivery of their prizes shortly. We will be having a very short Superman Returns contest which will begin on Saturday and run for a week. Watch for it!

  • Monitor Duty’s “The Lake House” Contest

    UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER. COMMENTS CLOSED. In association with Warner Brothers, Monitor Duty will be running a few contests this summer to give away movie merchandise. The first will be a drawing for the new romance/fantasy movie “The Lake House,” opening June 16th. (View the trailer) It reunites “Speed” stars Keanu Reeves and…

  • Now that it’s April 2nd

    I decided that this year I didn’t want to do some kind of cheesy post that sounds enticing, invite people to click on the extended entry only to taunt, “April Fools!” Where’s the fun in that? An April Fool’s prank has to be grand. Anyone can just offer a quick enticement, get the other person…

  • It’s up, it’s updated and it’s on sale!

    My comic books for sale site is updated. I fixed up the entry page, lowered prices all over the place, added a ton of pictures and tweaked it here and there. The one thing I have yet to do is add all of my trade paperbacks for sale, but that’s going to be a whole…

  • Weekend plans of concern to you

    I have to do another update to Scott Beatty’s web site, and I’m still working on the Metro Med script (it’s a big project), but I have one more thing to do this weekend that you may be interested in. See, my wife and I are going on a cruise to the Bahamas in April.…

  • All spam

    If anyone is trying to e-mail me, I may be slow in responding. When I woke up, I retrieved my e-mails to find that I had 150 e-mails from 2AM-6:30AM. I got home 8 hours later, and received 211 e-mails. It’s just a flood of spam lately. For some reason, my Thunderbird adaptive e-mail filter…

  • Forum archives for Monitor Duty are shrinking

    Based on the results of the “How big should our archives be?” poll, I’m setting the forum archives to 12 months as of January 1, 2006. If you want to preserve some old favorite threads or conversations, you should head over to the forum and give them a bump now! (For the uninitiated, “bump” means…

  • New experiment

    I’ve signed up for a new Amazon Associates beta test, as you may (or may not) see if you hover your cursor over this link for the movie Ray (I’m using that one just because I’ve seen it work in the beta test). 1/2 of the visitors to the site will see a special floating…