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Living Under a Rock

Saturday January 30, 2010

With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love [...]

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Goodnight, Coco

Saturday January 23, 2010

“All I ask of you is one thing: Please, do not be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things [...]

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Friday Five: TV Detectives

Friday October 23, 2009

Remington Steele
Magnum P.I.
Patrick Jane
Lennie Briscoe
Inspector Gadget

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On Football

Tuesday October 20, 2009

As I get older I find it increasingly difficult to explain my love of football. You’d think that the opposite would be true, that I would find it easier to tell people how wonderful it is as I understand the game more. But that is simply not the case.
I follow Stewart Mandel on [...]

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Real Products for Fictional Companies

Saturday October 17, 2009

The excellent local blog CurbedLA had an entry recently on artist Mark Bennett’s blueprints of fictional places. He has created very detailed floor-plans of famous pretend places, like the homes of George and Jane Jetson, Rob and Laura Petrie, and June and Ward Cleaver. (There’s a book, too!) I thought these were [...]

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Listen: I was never a huge Trek fan. I was always Star Wars all the way. After school my sister and I watched cartoons — Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Superfriends — and then, because we were usually with my grandparents, the standard early 80s grandparent shows: Happy Days, Barney Miller, [...]

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Friday Five: Dwight’s List

Friday March 27, 2009

Things to Which Dwight Was Introduced by Angela

pasteurized milk
sheets
monotheism
presents on your birthday
preventative medicine

from “Crime Aid”, The Office, first aired October 23, 2008

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Game Time with Dave and Greg

Saturday March 14, 2009

Update: Newer versions of this sketch are called
Game Time with Randy and Greg
If you missed SNL last week, you missed one of the all-time funniest skits in the long history of the show. Ten seconds into “Game Time with Dave and Greg” and I was going, “WTF?” I cannot even begin to imagine [...]

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The Office Musical

Thursday March 5, 2009

I just cannot understand people that don’t like The Office. Yes, I will agree that the Ricky Gervais / English / original version of the show was very well done and a grand comedic achievement. But after fifteen years I finally love NBC’s Thursday night TV again for two main reasons: The [...]

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Mwah-Ha-Ha-HA!

Wednesday February 11, 2009

He used to be more sinister — he was able to hypnotize and stun people and he laughed in typical scary-villain-type fashion after completing a count of something and thunder and lightning would occur.
He was quickly made more appealing to little kids, though. He is apparently quite the ladies’ man — he has been linked [...]

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