The Hutch

Dealing with doggy renal cancer

Two months later, here is where things stand with Chewie. He is, to use my wife’s phrase after his checkup last week, “healthy as a horse.” He has boundless energy, and he’s all atwitter that the long winter has finally ended. Taking him on a walk is like trying to hold on to a kid…

May 14, 2013

Calvin grows up

In the last year, someone shared a comic on Facebook. It showed a grown up Calvin giving his daughter the Hobbes doll to play with. It was one of the most heart-warming things I’d seen in a while, and I hope that Bill Waterson himself would enjoy it. (Turns out that several web artists have…

April 27, 2013

Why can’t our car ads be this good?

Remember the Wacky Races? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4olRj43x60 Now…check this out!!! http://youtu.be/zAsyF4J_klk

April 25, 2013

Podcast 9: Superman Movies (Lost Podcast #3)

Just in time for Superman’s 75th Anniversary, here is our podcast about the Superman movies. It was recorded in early 2010..so forgive my foolish yearnings at the end to see a Green Lantern movie. This is probably the best-sounding and most ambitious podcast, although I actually didn’t bother to go through and remove ums…

April 21, 2013

Superman actually hits somebody!!!

April 17, 2013

An Invidious Comparison

Last month, there arose a story that spread around the Internet like wildfire. Wait…wildfires don’t actually traverse DSL wires. Rats. Nor do hotcakes. Okay, I don’t have a good metaphor, but regardless…”The Bible” mini-series was a tremendous hit for the History channel. However, viewers noticed that the Moroccan actor playing Satan looked not too dissimilar…

April 10, 2013

Shatner continues the ear punching

William Shatner, now 97 years old, continues his fight with the gorn. At least he’s recreating a fight where he had his shirt on!

April 2, 2013

Podcast 8: Chatting About Movies Again (Lost Podcast #2)

This is the second of our “Lost Podcasts.” Erik Burnham and I both worked in video stores so as often happens, while gearing up to record a discussion about something else, we just get talking about movies…and it turns into a whole ‘nother podcast! [display_podcast]

March 17, 2013

Chewie one week later

I wanted to let you know that Chewie is finally getting some energy back. He’s had a rough week of recovery, but we’ve had a lot of encouraging signs recently. After so many days of hard sleeping, weakness and wooziness, he seems to have perked up. Last night he actually pulled out some of his…

March 15, 2013

My TeeFury Haul

I just love TeeFury. This site offers a new shirt design for that day, and only that day…and then it’s gone forever…almost. Almost is because very now and then, they offer a grab bag day to clear out their inventory of remaining shirts. The shirts are only $6, you choose your size, and you can…

March 8, 2013