Doug Hanke
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Doug Hanke
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Full-stack developer living in Portland. Avid reader, coffee drinker, Pikmin wrangler. I watch a lot of MST3K and Columbo.
I have not! There's a big gap in my anime viewership, unfortunately. I will look it up!
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
That show has so much to teach! We learn the importance of snacks, you should always check a chest for powerful grimoires, and making people a giant Hamburger Steak for their birthdays.

Also, do not mess with Fern.
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Ending is a bit of a downer, maybe that’s why Tom Servo’s sarcasm sequencer explodes at the end there.

Perhaps this would have ended better if they’d brought some cats with them like in 12 TO THE MOON.
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 AM
She’s a vapid, murderous piece of shit who tried to look tough at a guy in a chicken costume and failed.
January 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
That beverage looks a lot like tranya. I hope they relish it as much as I.
January 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I remember one of my early COVID diary entries had a question an out what each city’s memorial would look like.

It didn’t occur to me at the time that even acknowledging a terrible thing had happened and keeps continuing to happen would be transformed into a point of contention.
January 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Also in this episode:
A very early VCR as part of the alibi
Falk as Columbo role-playing Shatner’s Lieutenant Lucerne, so very meta
The prop department’s haphazard storage of loose weapons
Shatner’s character almost wants to get caught, he’s helping at every turn
January 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
“Where’s the gwacky-molo” should have been Exhibit A at The Hague.
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I sometimes wonder what a burden it must be for Oregon to be Phil Knight’s dress-up players every game.
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM