January 30th, 2008 – 21:45
I really don’t get the Fox network.
They had an unexpected hit on their hands when The Simpsons emerged out of the Tracey Ullman show. That’s still going on, 19 seasons later. They surprised everyone when they won broadcast rights for NFL football in 1993. That’s still going on, 14 years later. [...]
January 22nd, 2008 – 19:33
I had a resolution that I didn’t wanna reveal. I had resolved to try to put one post per day up here. I had been hit and miss, but last night was the second night I wilfully declined to blog anything… Friday was the first. The first bullet point below explains all.
This is mostly stuff [...]
December 22nd, 2007 – 22:03
It’s been a long, hard week at work (64 hours +… isn’t it great to be salaried?). I’ve been saving these links, including one or two for a full-length post; alas, some of these links will sink into irrelevance quicker than Kevin Federline if I sit on them much longer. So, without further ado:
Kate’s had [...]
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November 28th, 2007 – 22:17
All crazy stupid snark aside, I don’t think I could notice a TV writer’s strike, ever.
What I generally notice on my TV — not that I necessarily watch, but from time to time I can be caught looking in the general direction of the TV — is as follows:
Dancing with the Stars
American Idol
America’s Got Talent
Project [...]
Big Lizards: Reagan may not have won the Presidency if not for the Miracle on Ice. Is Iraq’s win in the Asia cup the Miracle on Sand? Can it instill hope that the Iraq War can be won?
Prince played havoc with the British music industry. I love it. (Yes, that’s Prince’s blog, though it’s pretty [...]
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Also tagged 1980, asia cup, british music industry, Great Britain, iraq war, miracle on ice, nachos, olympics, planet earth, prince, Reagan
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Tony’s dead. They didn’t show it, but he’s dead.
At the beginning of this season, Tony and Bobby were sitting on a boat out in the middle of a lake, wondering what it was like to die. They ultimately agreed that everything just goes black. The whole series was told from Tony’s point [...]
