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  • The All-Important Soundtrack

    An excellent soundtrack will work so well that you aren’t aware of how it’s manipulating you.  Oh, you’ll hear it and perhaps enjoy it, but you aren’t truly cognizant of how essential it is to the experience until you see raw footage and realize most of the emotional thrust of a moment was the music.  […]

  • How I Changed The World

    I have loved Rifftrax for years.  Their Rifftrax Live project is a lot of fun, but my wife and I haven’t been able to see many of them because it’s always 60-90 miles to the nearest participating theater.  We did see the Starship Troopers one, but really, two hours of driving to LaCrosse and back […]

  • ‘The Problem’ of DC wanting to be Marvel

    Ask Chris #172: ‘The Problem’. This not only gives you a great recap of DC and Marvel history, it explains why DC is so dark and serious now.  And it’s on the money.

  • Now this is how you tell a ghost story!

    I’ve been meaning to post this for ages: Now that’s what I call … am I right?

  • Attending Social Media Residency today

    Attending Social Media Residency today

    I’m attending a sort of class on the use of social media, called the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Residency #MCCSM.  (See pics.) My blogs TheHutch and Monitor Duty have been quite neglected.  Now I’m learning about how to commit to putting out at least a little content and then reinforcing the content with […]

  • Review: “Parallel Man: Invasion America” #1

    Review: “Parallel Man: Invasion America” #1

    Full disclosure right up front.  Christopher “Chris” Jones is a friend that I see at the Midwest Comic Book Association cons in Minnesota, and we’ve known each other for about a decade.  We talk on Facebook, but I’ve never had him over for dinner or helped him move, so that’s made clear our level of […]

  • Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun

    Oh, Weird Al.  My favorite musician for 30+ years. The only reason I’m not a member of the Close Personal Friends of Al is that Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz sent my check for $14 back a year later to say that “Polka Party” had flopped and they were kind of thinking that Weird Al Yankovic was […]

  • Paint Sets, Cake Decorating and Forced Female Circumcision

    Lots of hot-headed foofaraw about the Hobby Lobby case on my Facebook wall, all about how there’s a need to separate religion from business, etc., because it’s dictating what employees can do with their bodies. And this is exactly why Obamacare is totally wrong. Look: some religious people opened a business.  Are you saying religious […]

  • I Am Out Of The Hospital

    I Am Out Of The Hospital

    Let’s back up a bit.  I haven’t updated the blog in a while, so you don’t know all that’s going on. (I’m so neglectful, you may not even know that we got a new poodle named Murphy last September.  Maybe I should do a post on that soon.) I walked a 5K on my birthday, […]

  • Comedian John Pinette dies at 50

    Chubby comedian John Pinette, who jokes about buffets and Italian food, acted in “The Punisher,” Dr. Katz, the last episode of Seinfeld, and on stage in Hairspray, has been found dead in his hotel room at age 50. I’m going to miss him a lot.  I own his album, a DVD, I caught his latest […]

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