Posts tagged “television”
The Daily Show
The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it’s gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now
ESPN
Y‘know what? I really love ESPN. There was an excellent essay in Sports Illustrated a few weeks ago about how ESPN is in danger of MTV-izing itself: showing ‘television shows’ tangentially about sports instead of showing what everyone wants to see – games and scores. The article made a good point. I’m totally in favor
Late Nite TV
Has anyone caught the infomercial for Kurt Woodruff’s The Secret of Making Money on the Internet? No, I have no idea who “Kurt Woodruff” is either. With the notable exception of Planet of the Apes, I think the worst writing in the entertainment industry these days is being done by infomercial writers. Do they have
Hard Knocks
Last night at eleven I caught the first episode of Hard Knocks on HBO. Now this is a reality tv show that a guy can love. I’m not a fan of the Ravens at all, but it was fascinating to watch an NFL team prepare for the beginning of training camp. (Tony Siragusa was deliciously
College Football
Florida still leads the pack in the National Champs.Net Top 25 Preseason College Football Poll …
Miss Cleo
Yes! This snip from NextDraft makes me very happy: Missouri has filed lawsuits against the psychic Miss Cleo (if you have ever watched television, you know her) charging her with consumer fraud. According to the state’s attorney general: ‘Miss Cleo should have seen this coming. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to realize that ripping
Dan Rather on decent, responsible journalism
Survivor
“He’s taken so many cheap shots from everybody, this seemed like a perfect platform for him to redeem himself,” said USA Rice Federation spokeswoman Kim Park. “We had to do this for him and us.” And, hoo boy! As if September wasn’t already one of my top twelve favorite months of the year … it’s
Survivor
Tina! You lied?! Fox accuses CBS of rigging ‘Survivor’ link via Visual Distortion
‘Round Here
Long night last night. I had one of those dreams that is so engrossing and active that you wake feeling as if you just finished something and are ready to go to bed. I managed to pop into #blogIRC for a few minutes for the first time in many, many months. Caught the end of