Dirty Rotten
Monday, July 26th, 2010With the summer, of course, comes the summer TV season, which becomes a bit more of a season every year. Usually, it’s a dumping ground to run out the contract on some series that the network ended up deciding they didn’t like enough for the regular season, or you get the back half of a [...]
The Other Football Season
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Before I had any interest in football, I was a fan of Friday Night Lights. The book, the movie, I enjoyed them both. Then the TV series started, and I just wasn’t sure about it. I saw the first episode, and enjoyed that, and I’m not sure why I didn’t really continue watching it, [...]
Get Off My Lawn!
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Watching Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey’s hosting, so that’s a gimme. Her musical guest is Justin Bieber. I just don’t get it.
I’m not sure what the fuss is about this kid. Judging by the first half hour of the show, his singing is mediocre, and he can’t act. So in [...]
Because You Just Never Know
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009I’m often nervous about watching something that I liked many years ago. It’s mostly the case with TV shows. Part of that is down to the evolution of TV writing, and the fact that TV shows, especially those of a certain vintage, make more extensive use of pop culture references and thus run the risk [...]
Quick Reviews
Monday, August 3rd, 2009In between feedings, we’ve been watching some DVDs to keep us going. Ella won’t always sleep between feedings, so we’ve watched a few things.
First up:
He’s Just Not That Into You
A bunch of tangentially related stories interwoven to get across the points of the so-called funny self help book. I have to admit, I usually hate [...]
The Right Stuff
Saturday, January 31st, 2009So tonight, David Letterman is putting right a wrong done 15 years ago. In October 1993, comedian Bill Hicks taped a performance on Letterman’s newly minted Late Show on CBS. Letterman’s show was brand new, and the network a bit more conservative than his previous home at NBC.
Hicks did a performance in which he skewered [...]
Fixing Stuff
Friday, June 6th, 2008I got my MacBook repaired the other day. The top case/keyboard had small cracks in it. Through a conversation with a customer that runs a Mac store in Ottawa, I learned that this was, in fact a design and material problem, and was covered under warranty. Fortunately, it turns out that there is an authorized [...]
The Wednesday Report
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Here’s the Wednesday Report for this week:
First off, hooray for Obama getting the Democrat Nomination. Double hooray for him saying no to Hilary as a running mate. She turned the campaign ugly, and this is what they call payback. Change is what’s needed, and that’s what Obama will bring! There’s talk that John Edwards may [...]
Keeping The Season Alive 2: Electric Boogaloo
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Women’s Murder Club: Done.
New Amsterdam: Done.
We still have a ridiculous number of episodes of Murdoch Mysteries, and then there’s Jan’s library of Stargate SG-1 and So You Think You Can Dance episodes, and my Battlestar Galactica Season 4 episodes, which are waiting for me to catch up. There’s good odds that the season will be [...]
Keeping The Season Alive
Friday, May 30th, 2008I’m quickly beginning to realize that my PVR has not necessarily increased the amount of TV that I watch, but it has certainly allowed me to delay when I actually watch it.
The troubled TV 07-08 TV Season officially came to an end tonight, with the two-hour Lost finale. Me? I’m okay. I still have a [...]