Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in events, film, television on Mar 8th, 2010
After staying up entirely too last on a school night, I have a few thoughts about the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. I have to ignore the sets for the most part, since I’d be drooling all over the keys for the duration.
NPH. Is there anything he can’t do?
What an entrance by Steve Martin and Alec [...]
Posted in life in general, music, television on Jan 29th, 2010
Inspired by a fellow blogger’s weekly Thursday post, here’s a few things that rock.
Pre-heating the bed with the electric blanket.
House, M.D.: Season 5, minus one episode in particular. Particularly Locked In, for camerawork and perspective (and a nice performance by Mos Def).
Amusing late-night emails that close out the day just right, with a smile on [...]
Posted in photography, television, web sites on Jan 25th, 2010
I’ve been rediscovering things all weekend.
After a recommendation of a New York pal, I was looking at a “nifty fifty” lens for my camera. He said (and I’m paraphrasing slightly) that it changed his world. After taking a few unlit shots with a friends D80 on Friday evening and seeing how bloody crisp and fast [...]
Posted in life in general, television on Jan 5th, 2010
I had no idea that Travis Pastrana intended to set a new record on New Year’s Eve by driving his Subaru off the Long Beach pier, so we didn’t tune in to ESPN to watch him. But he did it. He’s got a television show on MTV called Nitro Circus. Produced by Johnny Knoxville, it’s [...]
Posted in television on Nov 30th, 2009
Instead of risking life and limb by venturing outside on Black Friday, I opted to re-watch the first season of House. A fantastic invention, television series on DVD.
There are multiple aerial shots of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital — which is actually Princeton’s student center — throughout the season, normally used during openings and transitions. Though taken [...]
Posted in culture, television on Nov 27th, 2009
I’m a big fan of educational programming. I think it’d be really difficult to write educational materials that are enlightening to both kids and parents, which actually promoting learning. I especially like the ones that have pop culture references.
Just like Mathnet was a parody of Dragnet whose characters taught mathematical concepts to Square One viewers, [...]
Posted in television on Nov 18th, 2009
A friend loaned me the first season of Damages several weeks ago, but it sat untouched on the TV table until this weekend when I watched the entire thing. It’s not that I didn’t have other things to do, but that it was that interesting. Posit, a legal drama circling around attorneys that doesn’t take [...]
Posted in film, television on Apr 3rd, 2009
There’s something really neat about Inside the Actors Studio. That’s what I think every time I see it. I don’t feel compelled to watch it, but I enjoy it when I happen to catch it on. Host James Lipton sticks to the script in most cases, not letting the guests wander too far. I feel [...]
Posted in film, television, web sites on Jun 11th, 2008
Why pay $1 for Red Box when you can stream movies for free on Hulu? Sure it isn’t as good a selection at Blockbuster or Red Box and the quality isn’t the same as a DVD, but you can’t beat the price. The best part is that it’s legit. NBC Universal and News Corp. teamed [...]
Posted in film, television, things i'd like to see on Jun 10th, 2008
Why hasn’t Doogie Howser, M.D. been made into a movie yet? With all of the other television shows that the studios have been making these days instead of coming up with new material, why not? It could be dubbed “The Later Years” (paying homage to Fred Savage) and depict Dr. Howser handling a few cases [...]
Posted in television, things i'd like to see on Dec 6th, 2007
A recent comment about a snowball brought back a memory. When I was younger and on holiday break I used to watch David Letterman. I didn’t understand a lot of the political humor at that time or get all of the jokes, but it was still entertaining to watch the celebrity interviews and the banter [...]
Posted in film, idiots, oddities, television on Jul 19th, 2007
Jackass: The Movie purportedly contained all of the skits, tricks, and stupidity that were too crude or obscene for television. So MTV decides to air the movie during prime time; a seven year old episode of Jackass and a “Where They Are Now” special were shown prior. Consider all that would have to be cut [...]
Posted in complaints, in the news, television on Jun 12th, 2007
Don Herbert — known to the world as “Mr. Wizard” — died today. Poor guy had bone cancer. He was 89.
I remember watching the show on Nickelodeon in awe, long before Bill Nye’s funky routine hit the screen. Hell, Bill Nye probably grew up watching Mr. Wizard too. I didn’t know this, but “when Late [...]
Posted in advertising, boozing, humor, in the news, oddities, television, web sites on Jun 11th, 2007
If you query “retarded wheelchair semi“, you find this jewel. A man was taken for 50mph ride when his wheelchair somehow got lodged in the front grille of a semi parked at a gas station. Neither the police nor the driver of the semi believed the initial reports from passing motorists that there was indeed [...]
Posted in boozing, humor, television, web sites on May 16th, 2007
Remember the N.Y. Friar’s Club Roast of Hugh Hefner back in 2001? I remembered Gilbert Gottfried’s act, humorously stolen from Ice T. A lot of people don’t appreciate Mr. Gottfried, but I think he isn’t given enough credit. Forget Aladdin and Problem Child, he was the sole savior of Beverly Hills Cop II; he played [...]
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