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Eras, Meet Endings

In the comments to yesterday’s blog entry, InfK mentions offhandedly the trouble the newspaper industry is in. Indeed. The Daily Show even did a bit about the massive amount of failing newspapers around the country on last night’s show. What hath Craigslist wrought? It was announced last week that the very [...]

Televised Fairy Tales

No time for a longer blog entry lately. But I did want to mention about how ABC is going to do a pilot based on the DC/Vertigo comic book series Fables, which I wrote about while back. Seems like a pretty good fit for TV, as it wouldn’t require a lot of special [...]

Kung Fu Bustle

Movie Mention Monday Sunday!
For all of you complaining that I haven’t been watching manly enough movies lately – ha! Last night N and I watched a flick that was filled with fast action and violence. Kung Fu Panda is the story of an incompetent, clumsy son of a noodle chef who is called upon [...]

The One With The Title Patterns

There’s an interesting article up at the TV Squad blog about the episode naming patterns of some current television shows. Fascinating stuff. For example, I had no idea that the titles of Desperate Housewives episodes were Sondheim songs. But what I know about Stephen Sondheim could fill a carbon nanotube.
Okay, well, this [...]

Music From Heaven

So, the other night the girlfriend and I attended a work-related (hers, not mine) shindig at the Denver Zoo. There were refreshments. Yes, there were refreshments. And then we got to wander around the zoo and take in a preview of their Zoolights exhibit, which doesn’t officially open until next week. [...]

Not So Final Frontieresque

Pet Peeve of the Day:
The Flying McCoys, 12/2/2008:

The name of the TV show/movie is Sex and the City, not Sex in the City. Why can’t the non-fans ever get that right?? Sheesh.
And who’s the dude on the far left?
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “phobia that starts with [...]

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