Why is Sunday night Historical Epic Night on the pay movie channels? Is Sunday a kind of high brow TV-watching night in the minds of the network programmers? Probably not. Last night saw the second season premiere of The Tudors on Showtime, and the 4th part (of 7) of HBO’s John Adams […]
Entries from March 2008
The Past’s Always Yesterday
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Television
Charity Evolution
March 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Yesterday when I was doing my grocery shopping at Safeway, they introduced a new wrinkle into the “hitting you up at the cash register for charity” game. And I have to say, this is quite clever. Instead of asking you “Would you like to donate a dollar to Easter Seals?”, they now say […]
Tags: General
The Yellow Impurity
March 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Remember the discussion we had back around this post involving red light cameras? Well, there’s been a new development. According to today’s Rocky Mountain News, the city of Denver is re-evaluating their plan to install red light cameras at the four intersections. The reason, as this article says, is because an RMN […]
Tags: Whining
The Future’s Always Tomorrow
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m tired and I have to get up early tomorrow morning and work, and I don’t have anything to talk about. I don’t even have a jogging listening list to post, since I didn’t jog this morning. Hmmmm… what to do?
Let’s go to the news:
It looks like Apple may introduce their 3G […]
Tags: Misc Tech
What I’m Playing At
March 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I realize I haven’t posted an update about my Playstation 3 experiences lately. Well, I haven’t had much time to play it or play with it. I haven’t done any online play at all. I’m working my way through Heavenly Sword, which is a bit of a button masher, but pretty and […]
Tags: Home Theater · Video Games
Playing My ‘68 Race Card
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today, I want to tell one more story about my days at the Catholic school. One of my only friends at the school was the only African-American kid there. My area of town was insular and not very integrated; I don’t remember seeing a lot of non-white people around. Although, like Stephen […]
Tags: Personal