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Category Archives: Weird World of the Roku
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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William Shatner, Star of “For The People?”
Before the Promise margarine commercials; well before T.J. Hooker, and a bit before he sat on the bridge of the Enterprise, the Shat sat on the panel of What’s My Line? in 1965 where avuncular host John Charles Daly introduced him … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1965, cord cutters, gameshow, Roku, Star Trek, television, vintage, What's My Line?, William Shatner
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Black Sunday
I’ve written before about the Wonderfully Weird Channels of the Roku and how the little device is a gift of modern technology for which I have always been thankful. Well, now I am afraid to report to you that I … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1977, Black Sunday, cut the cord, Rook, streaming, television
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Seeing The Being
I sit and draw and watch TV. I always have. When I was little, I watched amiable announcer Bill “Wee Willie” Webber present hours of kids shows every afternoon as I drew cartoons on scratch pads, rolls of adding machine … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1980s, 1983, Amazon Prime, exploitation, grindhouse, horror, monster, Roku, The Being, vintage
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I Want My Polka Music TV!
When I purchased my first Roku about 8 years ago I quickly became convinced that it was the best $60 I had ever spent. The house I moved into in the mid-1990s was wired throughout it’s three floors for cable, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged cord cutting, Joe Siedlik, music, polka, Roku, streaming, television
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