Posts about “television”
#FridayFive: Simpsons Characters
View the Friday Five from June 18th, 2010
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Is this not theft?
Raylan Givens
The best show to watch right now
#FridayFive: Abandoned Television
View the Friday Five from April 30th, 2010
#FridayFive: Villains
View the Friday Five from April 9th, 2010
Living Under a Rock
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 movies. Yet,
“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 will happen.”
Conan O’Brien
#FridayFive: TV Detectives
View the Friday Five from October 23rd, 2009
On Football
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 Twitter
Real Products for Fictional Companies
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 terrific so I