Category Archives: Weird World of the Roku

Give it a CHANCE

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Joe

I’m writing this post to draw attention to a show of which I was completely unaware on a streaming platform that never held any appeal for me. The show is Chance and it is available on Hulu.

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The Nadir

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Joe

As far as culture and entertainment, it often feels as if we are living through the worst of times. Old cranks like myself constantly opine that entertainment is not entertaining either through the sheer ineptitude or the callous disregard of … Continue reading →

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An Italian Sketchbook and Some Familiar Faces

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Joe

I finished off a nice little sketchbook that Tony Visco picked up for me when he was in Florence a couple years ago.

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The Original Animal House

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Joe

See if this sounds familiar: In a college town circa 1962 a group of students carouse from bar to bar, falling in and out of bed with coeds as well as married women and culminating in a prank that has … Continue reading →

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Sofa Sketches and an Obscure Remake

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Joe

I’ve been sitting on the sofa with a sketchbook in my lap trying out some of my new art materials and playing around with a few I forgot I had. I should be up at my desk in my studio, … Continue reading →

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A Lady Cabbie and George Sanders’ Brother

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Joe

Here’s another satisfying but forgotten mystery movie the likes of which used to play regularly at local movie houses when there were local movie houses. Eventually films like this would pad out the schedules of local UHF channels to be … Continue reading →

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It’s the End of the World as We Know It

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Joe

Long before the overstuffed, CGI abominations such as The Day After Tomorrow and Man of Steel which I refer to as disaster porn and four decades before the disaster cycle of films of the ’70s such as The Towering Inferno … Continue reading →

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