Still Alive

[Andrew]

Hi folks.  I am still alive and hoping to get an update posted today, depending on things around here.

We moved Katie and the kids in August down to my new duty station, but I had to remain up on Long Island until my detach date on 18 September.  I was living with some friends in Brooklyn and driving about an hour each way every day.  Anyway, not a lot of free time there.

Since I arrived I have been tackling Katie's rather huge "Andy Do" list and unpacking a bunch of stuff (like the computer used for the video editing).  Things are looking better now that I have put up all the shelves, pictures, mowed the lawn, installed window guards, cleaned out under the deck, put up the DVD racks, replaced the light bulbs with high efficiency ones, and so on.

I did pick up the "Best Buy Exclusive" set of monster movies with "Tarantula," "The Monolith Monsters," "The Mole People," "Monster on Campus," and "The Incredible Shrinking Man."  The quality is the best that I have ever seen for any of the movies and, for me, it was well worth the $20.

[Ash]

So Andrew,
I was wondering...are you going to make the Marine Corps. your career for life?
As long as I've known you...online that is...for almost 7 years...you've always been in the Marines.

Do you have plans to strike out on your own?
Or do you intend to stay with the U.S military?

[RCMerchant]

I USTA live inLI. MASTIC SHIRLEY. I dont think Iv'e ever gotton a chance to talk to the MAN himself. BAD MOVIES is THEE best site on the net for fans of cheese and otherwise. And the board clan are a diverse,farout,groovy,bunch.Have you ever considered putting out a MAGAZINE? Psychotronic is a dead horse...and your a better critic and writer than Micheal Weldon. I know that I would suscribe! Be well...

[Scott]

Your stationed in the NYC area now?

Been thinking about how the internet has been changing Andrew with Youtube and Myspace type sites and thinking about how you might want to look into some additional things like doing your own show if you ever found the time or making this website able to load up youtube and other video to a post without leaving badmovies.org  website to view things. (maybe we can do it now and we haven't figured it out yet) We still love the site here without a doubt, but attendance has been low. Looking towards the future of your movie enterprise right here at badmovies.org.

[onionhead]

Mighty impressive sentence there, Scott.
Andrew, I hope you enjoy your new digs.  A military career isn't too bad, if you don't mind relocating once in a while.  Benefits are life-long, I doubt if you'd get anything like that at Microsoft.
And nice job at keeping the site up and running like a well-greased wheel, buddy.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Scott,

I'd kill for a badmovies.org podcast.  I'm somewhat addicted to the podcasts from various other websites.  Great medium.


Good to hear you're doing well Andrew.  We've missed you the past few weeks.

[Scott]

Yea, that was a pretty bad sentence Onionhead. I could change it with the "edit post" function, but I don't want to waste any ink.

[Scottie]

Skaboi,

I'm going to learn how to make podcasts for my job. It's kind of cool. It seems the more personal entertainment can get, the more people like it though. Radio, television, home computers, video rentals, portable CD players, IPod and now Podcasts. Will it end there? I forsee entire cars completely decked out with internet access and other commodities as the next leap in luxury and eventual societal norm. Sooner than later you'll be seeing cars like the ones from Bladerunner where you can do all of your work directly from your car if you want. Internet, phone, monitors, etc, etc. Enjoy!

[ulthar]

And thus isolate many of us from further REAL social interaction?

Sounds like a good plot for a poorly directed and overacted sci-fi to me.

[Andrew]

Someday I would like to do an online show, but that is going to have to be after the Marine Corps and after the children are older.  Those will probably be at around the same time, since I will be eligible for retirement in less than six years.

Not certain on a magazine, even an online one.  Those take a good bit of work and some cooperation between folks.  Over at Rogue Cinema they are doing a good job of this.

[LilCerberus]

Just out of curiosity, how much of a backlog do you currently have on Reader Reviews?

[Andrew]

lilcerberus Wrote:
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> Just out of curiosity, how much of a backlog do
> you currently have on Reader Reviews?

I am just not doing any right now.  There are probably a dozen that I have, with intent to post.  Until I get all of those cleaned out, everything is on hold with reader reviews.