Sometimes You Got To Roll A Hard Six To Make Your Dreams Come True
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Television, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
…Sometimes you have to strike a superior asshole to hear what your heart is telling you…. If Battlestar Was an 80s Sitcom {via}
Read More..>>floating on
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under Crime, Deformities, Language, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
Screening at Noisepop this year: Seven Signs: Music, Myth and the American South. I think I’m passing on buying the festival badget this year, but I’ll try and check this one out. I’m with Kristina Keyton on this one. Move over William Safire: The Mysterious Origins of “Oh Snap!” “Law & Order officials would neither [...]
Read More..>>Best Frakkin’ Recap Evar!
Posted on December 18, 2008 - Filed Under Television, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
Run don’t walk to BSG mega-catchup: http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/?sub=specials&clip=3 (for Rillz)
Read More..>>Ahhhh, it’s in b minor! nice!
Posted on November 19, 2008 - Filed Under Music, Television | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMri_RR7hto
Read More..>>the only person who can claim she has worked regularly with both Chuck D and Pat Buchanan
Posted on September 26, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Stickin' It To The Man, Television | Leave a Comment
We had set our alarm to Air America’s first drive-time talk show, Morning Sedition, in part out of obligation to a friend who produced it, but, in time, because it was a very funny show that allowed us to share the wrath as the 2004 elections approached. We were more than a little upset when [...]
Read More..>>Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Politics, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Anyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV for a while. [...]
Read More..>>Stars on Studio 360
Posted on March 14, 2008 - Filed Under Music, Radio, Television | Leave a Comment
This week’s Studio 360 features an in-studio performance interview with Stars. …and apparently they’ll be on Conan March 18th.
Read More..>>Instant Karma
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Television | Leave a Comment
My wife is an American Idol devotee. So much a devotee that she actually doesn’t even mind that I’m divulging as much to the blogosphere. No shame in that, at least where she sits. As for me, I merely indulge her. You would too, she’s cute. Which is to say she watches it on DVR, [...]
Read More..>>Word Nerds
Posted on February 7, 2008 - Filed Under Language, Movies, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
May be interested in this article in the January 31, 2008 issue of New Scientist. Another amateur site that the pros turn to is the Wordlustitude blog, written by Mark Peters (see “How Wordlustitude feeds my obsession”). He has tracked the use of infixes – words inserted into the middle of other words. Some of [...]
Read More..>>Grand Central
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under For The Record, Money, Statistics, Television, The En-Vir-On-Ment, The Man Stickin It To Us | 1 Comment
Every night, the last bit of terrestrial Manhattan I see is Grand Central Station, and I do not surface again until I’m looking down onto my home in Brooklyn. It serving as my wormhole, then, I was curious enough to watch the American Experience episode on its construction this week. It also has to do [...]
Read More..>>School of Rock
Posted on December 27, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Television | 2 Comments
The BBC recently produced a programme entitled “The Seven Ages of Rock” that was picked up in the States by everyone’s favourite station, VH1 Classic. This was how I spent my winter break, watching them all, so you don’t have to. And I can’t say I recommend catching them all. Which is not to say [...]
Read More..>>Power Ranking, signs of the Apocalypse
Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under Diversions, Power Rankings, Television | Leave a Comment
Not really scandalous per se, but roadsigns reminding us of the path we’re following? 1. Last Saturday’s Times crossword puzzle–ever the standard for class and erudition–weighed in with “Screw It” as an answer for 32 across. 2. Last night’s episode of “Aliens in America” marked the first time I heard the nom de guerre “Skanky [...]
Read More..>>Merv Griffin’s Crosswords?
Posted on September 9, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Television | 5 Comments
Apparently the target demographic for Merv Griffin’s Crosswords is the same as Sunday Night Football viewers. Who knew? This is the first I’d heard of it and just set up a Tivo season pass for the new game show (premiering tomorrow). I don’t have very high expectations for this show. just. doesn’t. feel. right. But [...]
Read More..>>Synergy Paradigm (file under: Ad Wizards)
Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under Drugs, Money, Pain, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Via FJM: “Log on to ESPN.com and search ‘Excedrin’ to answer additional trivia questions.”
Read More..>>so fucking not funny
Posted on April 16, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Television | Leave a Comment
Maybe I’m too dense, for I now see that the “sofa king” sketch from last weekend’s SNL is, in fact, funny because “Sofa King” sounds like “So Fucking”. Sweet. Then again, it’s proven and fact that I never tire of Uranus jokes. So there’s that.
Read More..>>Purr Purr Purrfect Strangers
Posted on March 16, 2007 - Filed Under Television, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQ0urHjSIk
Read More..>>One Billion Dollars
Posted on March 13, 2007 - Filed Under Money, Television, The Man Stickin It To Us | Leave a Comment
The numbers are in: One Billion dollars is how much it costs to keep America safe. And the only way to do it is to break our TVs. Oh well, guess it’s time to be a patriot and buy a $5,000 HDTV. It’s for the children: Congress set the deadline several years ago in an [...]
Read More..>>Devil Town Coverama
Posted on January 2, 2007 - Filed Under Money, Music, Television | Leave a Comment
The Houston Chronicle reports that Friday Night Lights producers wanted to use Bright Eyes’ cover of Daniel Johnston’s Devil Town for an upcoming episode. Since Conor Oberst apparently doesn’t license his performances for television shows or advertisements, they hired another guy to cover Bright Eyes’ cover. While you wait for the inevitable conclusion1 to these [...]
Read More..>>I Always Wondered Where My Mandibula Was
Posted on December 4, 2006 - Filed Under Television | Leave a Comment
Via Ed, I see the so-called top 50 commercials of the 80′s … is lacking a few crucial elements: Though I can’t hate that long…turn it up!!
Read More..>>How do you say “Greasy”? … and MORE!!!
Posted on October 26, 2006 - Filed Under Food, Language, Perception, Television | 2 Comments
One of the spoils of married life is a re-acquisition of Cable Television — something I’d gone a few years without. Couple that with Tivo and I have a nice stash of shows for rainy days. To get to the point, lately I have been watching a lot of one of my favorite shows, Good [...]
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