(1/05 – 1/11) TV for 2009 started spinning up the turbos last week, and will be at full boost when Idol comes online this week. That will, of course, send numbers in all kinds of crazy directions. It should anyway, unless I got the animal sacrifices and the Gregorian chanting right this time. Once I […]
Ah, we’re finally into new seasons of reality shows! Well, the reality biggie American Idol doesn’t start until this week, but the madness is already here. As always, I contend that American Idol is more of a talent contest (or non-talent with some of the contestants) than what I’d refer to as a reality show. […]
Don’t drink and drive. Do not operate heavy machinery after taking this medication. We hear these cautions left and right. Don’t show up to work stoned, or get hammered at lunch; not necessarily things anyone tells you, but rules to live by nonetheless. So, with millions of TV subscribers and moviegoers viewing at home, and […]
(Season 6, Episode 13 – “Breaking News”) Oh. I forgot to mention “funny hats” in my faux-title, didn’t I? It didn’t really play a huge part in tonight’s episode although it gave the Nick Vera character some screen time. At least the show was back to a cold cold case tonight unlike last week’s lukewarm […]
(Week of January 5, 2008) Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I hope Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert got plenty of well-deserved vacay time and Happy 2009 and blah blah blah, but I’m so glad to see them again. […]
“I was purring! It felt amazing!” — Lady hippies have orgasms while giving birth on 20/20. Okay boys and girls, let’s sit down and have a conversation about something. I’ve already talked about my immense dislike of potheads, but that’s really only a subset of my greater enemy: dirty hippies. I started my post-holiday TV […]
The brief back-and-forth I recently had about shows and their creators (following a great review of the Scrubs premiere) led me to pay a visit to my DVD bookcase. Over the years, my wife and I have assembled quite the collection of TV on DVD, and every few months I cycle back to the beginning […]
