Category: Television
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Errata
Correcting misinformation from previous posts and episodic adventure games.
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The Sci-Fi Channel has officially changed its name to the wacky and nonsensical “Syfy.” Nerds everywhere are in an outrage. Also: cable networks are doomed.
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Content Withholders
Hulu.com is going to great lengths to block boxee from accessing its “service,” and its self-serving justifications aren’t helping.
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SPOILER: Caesar dies
This weekend I finished watching the last episodes of the HBO series “Rome.” It’s been a hard road to the end of the series: it was recommended by a friend on here, but it took me a long time to get into it. And they nearly lost me a few times in season 2, because…
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On the Air
About two months ago, I did the unthinkable and cancelled my satellite TV service. It was both an attempt to save money as well as a social re-engineering project on myself: I’d gotten so dependent on having live TV that it never even occurred to me I could go without it. It was an essential…
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And Santa Can Be Our Regular Saturday Night Thing
I know it’s been done before, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for tradition. Here’s wishing everybody (including Mr. Swayze himself) the haziest, laziest, Swayziest Christmas of them all. Pain don’t hurt, everyone! Pain don’t hurt us one and all.
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Sack o’ Monkeys in My Pocket
I was wandering around the internet last night and ended up spending at least an hour looking at MST3K clips on YouTube. It really was the best television series ever. There’s the Idiot Control Now song from Pod People: (You can see the bit they’re making fun of as well). And the Fugitive Alien Medley.…
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And the preamble goes like this
Since I’ve been confronted with my age (thirty-seven) a lot lately, I’ve been wondering: 1) If you’re around my age (thirty-seven), can you recite the Preamble to the US Constitution? If so, can you do it without singing it? 2) If you’re significantly below my age, can you recite the Preamble to the US Constitution?…
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Okay, what ELSE you got?
A few years ago, my friend Alex recommended I read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I filed away the suggestion but never acted on it, for any one of a dozen stupid reasons. I wouldn’t have the attention span to read a 1000-page book I liked, much less one without spaceships. I wasn’t that…
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To Be in the Venture Compound in the Summertime
I’ve got 2 Venture Brothers-related confessions to make: first is that before he showed up in the series, I’d never heard of Klaus Nomi. Second is that until last week’s episode (“What Goes Down Must Come Up”), I’ve thought this season was clever but not hilariously funny. This episode had me dying, though. (Yeah, I’m…