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Category Archives: Weird World of the Roku
Product Tampering
This is a follow-up to my article regarding my declining ardor for streaming services. What I adored in it’s infancy has grown into a fairly ugly and bratty child. I don’t hold out a lot of hope for streaming entertainment’s … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Burt Reynolds, cable, censor, cordcutter, Disney, George Lucas, HBO, Roku, Star Wars, streaming, tamper
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In Praise of Physical Media
I’ve been kicking around ideas for this article for a while. Originally it was going to be one of my frugal/cheapskate posts, but recent events have changed it into something else. A friend of mine has done the unthinkable and … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged censor, cheapskate, Disney, DVD, frugal, Gone with the Wind, internet, movie, Neo-Puritan, property rights, Splash
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Digital Sanctuary No More
I got my first Roku streaming box almost ten years ago. I have written before of my stubborn resistance to a cable TV subscription and my struggle with rabbit ears and video shops. When I first heard of streaming boxes, … Continue reading
We are now in control of the transmission
This illustration which I cobbled together in my absolute favorite vector art program Affinity Designer is sort of a response to my last illustration which featured former television icon Bonnie Franklin. Whereas Ms Franklin’s televised efforts in the situation comedy … Continue reading
The Vector Chainsaw Massacre
Here is another Halloween Head I illustrated in the marvelous vector design application called Affinity Designer. I started this yesterday morning with a vague polygon shape for a face and a cog shape for hair. I wasn’t sure if it … Continue reading
The Post-Apocalypse on $5 a Day
As Halloween approaches, I continue to watch some of the bottom-of-the-barrel horror films that I used to watch on UHF television way back when. Movies like this were usually presented by a horror host and constantly interrupted by commercials for … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Halloween, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Halloween, horror, movie, Roger Corman, Roku, war
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Halloween Screenings Continue
Amazon Prime is the gift that keeps giving this Halloween season with an incredible selection of low-budget but beloved (by me) horror and science fiction films. I just watched Earth VS The Spider which I haven’t seen since the late … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Halloween, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Earth VS The Spider, horror, Roku, streaming
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The Horror of Party Beach
One of my all time favorite, so-bad-it’s-good, horror films is available in a beautiful, high definition transfer on Amazon’s Prime. The Horror of Party Beach is the only beach party movie to have been made in Connecticut, and other than … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Stuff Joe Likes, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged Amazon, Connecticut, Halloween, Horror of Party Beach, Prime, Roku, streaming
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Pill Poppin’ Truckers and Frankenstein Monsters
I’ve been sitting on the couch lately, doodling while watching trash on my Roku streaming box. I dumped Netflix over a year ago but hung onto Amazon’s Prime Video. It’s got a lot of popular movies, television series and compelling … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1957, Chuck Connors, doodles, Frankenstein, ink, library, monster, Peter Graves, Roku, Sketch, sketchbook, streaming, trash, video
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The Astounding She-Monster
…and I am astounded at what I will sit through. Amazon’s Prime Video appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. They seem to be topping off their video offerings with a lot of classic movies that I was … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1950s, 1958, Roku, Shirley Kilpatrick, streaming, The Astounding She-Monster
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