Bionic Rhymes With Moronic
As with every fall TV season I usually get all revved up about a show. Last year it was “Heroes,” and this time around it was “The Bionic Woman,” which NBC went to such serious lengths to hype. Sure...
View Article“Recount” Bummed Me Out
The Memorial Day weekend was rolling strong and steady. Dodger game Friday. Errands and “Indiana Jones” Saturday. Then Sunday Susan and I rose early to drive out the 5 to the 126 all the way out to San...
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Follow-up: LA Plays Someplace Else
Back in November on Blogging.la, I posted about a fancy new fully cinematic and futuristic Air Force “It’s Not Science Fiction” commercial I saw on TV that utilized a decidedly disaster-struck 6th...
View ArticleAll I’m Going To Blog About Last Night’s Academy Awards
Had “The King’s Speech” not won the Best Picture Oscar last night, I had some incredulous columnist’s headline packed up and ready to tweet: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Stutter!
View ArticleBetween The Pit Of Mans Fears, And The Summit Of His Knowledge
In the bookcase that constitutes the majority of my analog library resides a trade-paperback-sized volume. To describe it as dog-earred would be a lie. It’s spine is in tatters, its back cover is long...
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If You Don’t Watch “The Walking Dead” This Following Ramble Will Mean Nothing...
There was a great opportunity missed to kick some serious momentary ass in last night’s mostly comatose and soap-operatic premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” but given how overwrought and overacted...
View ArticleMr. Rogers Will ALWAYS Be My Hero
On May 1 1969, when I was 4, Fred Rogers appeared before a US Senate subcommittee to fight for the half of the $20,000,000 in funding that President Richard Nixon wanted cut from PBS and the...
View ArticleNolympics
I watched about 90 minutes of this Olympics. Some men’s diving. Some women’s beach volleyball. A few qualifying heats on the track. Some of the women’s marathon. It made me sad to be so apathetic, but...
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Crystal Blue Persuasion
The above screen cap (click it for the bigger picture) is brought to you from the greatest television show in the history of my television viewership: Breaking Bad, created by Vince Gilligan....
View ArticleRest In Peace, Huell Howser
I’ve been in awe of Huell Howser since I first started watching his “Videolog” shows on KCET way back when dinosaurs like Payphoneasaurus and Eveningnewspaperus Rex still roamed the earth. In other...
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Embracing The ‘Fear’
It was while coming down Highland Avenue approaching Franklin Avenue a couple days ago I saw this billboard so awesome I just had to snap it (click to enlargify). It’s promoting the much-anticipated...
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‘Fear’ Is Good
So. I had my doubts about it, but most were allayed and I certainly enjoyed the heck outta the premiere episode of “Fear The Walking Dead” Sunday, for a couple reasons. One, It did as I’d hoped and...
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Just Vin, Baby
A couple days ago over on Facebook I posted about getting a pair of cheap seats to the Vin Scully Appreciation Game at Dodgers Stadium in September and how by not spending $1,400 for butt rests down...
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