Yes, this blog sucks. The stupid default theme has nothing to do with comic books. I haven’t really posted much in…wow…the last year. Our podcast links seem to need repair. So…I have been studying WordPress themes, and I am hoping to implement a new one this next week.
Category Archive: Site News
Jun 29
Stupid TV Tropes.org!
I got two and a half hours of sleep last night because I followed a link to TV Tropes.org. No, I’m not even linking it. Go there at your own risk. That site is like a pop culture form of heroin. Tomorrow, I will be painting my lawn furniture, and then working on some bills, …
Jun 11
Welcome new contributor Brian White!
Brian White is going to post some things, starting with a Father’s Day piece. Watch this space!
Jun 04
My pledge: Every Day In June
I am posting something every day this month. Dang, I wrote a humongo paragraph of text after that sentence, and when I hit post it disappeared. I was already in a rush. Oh well, here I go again, as fast as I can… I’ve made a pledge to post at least one thing to Monitor …
Feb 28
Temporary Template
Our new template is temporary, but I needed to ditch the one that was infected with a Russian hack. I’ll get the site’s look updated soon.
May 07
I don’t want to go on the cart!
I’m not dead. I’m getting better! I feeeeeel happyyyyy! Yeah, I’ve had a tough time keeping this blog going ever since I got the dogs. However, I’ve found more time for writing and audio editing lately. About the podcasts: I feel like I’ve let Erik down. Erik Burnham and I have a huge inventory of …
Dec 25
I’ve upgraded our WordPress
Hopefully, this will help contributors to our site to post videos. All you have to do is paste in the URL of the video and WordPress embeds it.
Nov 12
Monitor Duty is alive and well
Sorry to disappear, everyone. We got a new puppy in October, so we’ve been crazily preoccupied with training and classes, and sometimes days would go by where I’d not even turn on my computer! The new puppy is named Chewbacca, by the way. Chewie for short, which is appropriate. In addition to that, my wife …
May 21
Okay, everyone. Fine!
I’m on Facebook, too. So now I’m on Twitter and MySpace and ComicSpace and Facebook and LinkedIn, and none of them are going to be maintained well enough because I’m trying to keep this blog going and I’m not even doing THAT very well!
Apr 24
How to post YouTube videos in a WordPress blog
Update: Some say that only Admins can post…which makes no sense at all. I’m checking into that. I was going to make this a private page just for my fellow Monitor Duty authors, but then I realized that there may be many non-MonitorDuty users who could be having the same problem and this might come …
Apr 20
Hey, It’s My Film on DVD
One of the last things I posted before my long sabbatical from Monitor Duty was a trailer for a film my wife and I have made. In the interim, we’ve made another feature and we’ve begun writing yet another still. For reasons explained in this interview, we’re self-distributing our films on DVD via Amazon.com and …
Apr 20
In other news of a technical nature…
I finally figured out why few of the Monitor Duty authors were posting. They’ve almost all been locked out ever since I installed Sabre in order to fight the spam registrations. I fixed that tonight. Any and all registered users have now been okayed to author posts or comment. My apologies to any and all …
Apr 20
Hulk smash technical problems! Rar!
Even before the release of our first podcast, I ran into technical problems with my microphone. I simply could not get my front microphone plug to work. That’s why I had to end that installment with a clip from the old Batman show. Parts 2 and 3 have languished while I’ve tried to resolve this …
Mar 31
The Birthday haul (a/k/a “Game reviews to come”)
I had a lovely little birthday party with my wife, Melinda, and niece, Jenny. They bought a glittery banner and I realized I’ve never had a banner for my birthday party before. They also restarted a long-abandoned tradition of lighting a candle on the cake for every year I’ve been alive, and there’s a reason …
Mar 29
Today I’m as old as Jack Benny
Today’s my birthday. The big 3-9. For the first time, I’m turning 39.
Mar 25
Keep up with Phil Meadows
Many of you know Phil Meadows from his time as the art director for Fanzing.com or as the illustrator of the comic works I’ve written (Job Wanted, Time Meddlers and Metro Med). Phil and his wife Sherry are currently in China adopting their second child, and you can follow their adventures in their blog. Their …
Mar 24
Batman podcast part 2 is coming
I’m determined to get the microphone issues resolved. I know, you think I’d have done this by now, but I’m trying to track down the color-coding schematic for my Logitech surround sound soundcard. Then I have to pull the computer away from the wall and get my skinny little niece to crawl behind it, sit …
Mar 19
Classic comic recommendations from the readership?
Hello everyone. My birthday is coming up and I want to add more variety to my Amazon wishlist. With my local comic shop kaput, I don’t really read many comics anymore. I’ve finally gotten down to the dregs of my stockpiled trade paperbacks, like The Transformations of Jimmy Olsen. After years of everyone raving about …
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Feb 21
Comments Off (for the nonce)
Site News
by thehutch
You may have noticed that our web site disappeared over the weekend. For some reason, this blog’s database was using up a ton of resources on our server host, which doesn’t really make sense. (I’ll be the first to say that my posting here has been almost non-existent for some time.) Powweb shut down all …
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