Posts tagged “television”
#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,
#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
Why the Original “Star Trek” Still Matters
On the continuing relevance of 1960s science fiction
Rescue Me on DirecTV FXHD
C’mon, C’mon
#FridayFive: Dwight’s List
View the Friday Five from March 27th, 2009
Game Time with Dave and Greg
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