Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label television. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Revisiting Rumpole of the Bailey.

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Seven years later, the cycle has begun anew. It's back to 1970s-era London, only three decades removed from the Blitz; to Pomeroy's ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

In the end, Bill Maher is irrelevant. Read a damn book, will you?

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Don't you even start on me. I've had this poster since I was in high school. It is intended as metaphor, suggesting thoughtful re...
Friday, April 13, 2018

The series Once Upon A Time has run out of it, but Josh Dallas goes on forever in syndication.

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Another day at the office with the missus. I'm famously indifferent to television; consequently, this story is more than two months...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

A few more choice words: "What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials."

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At YouTube: What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials : A different portion of the same Martin Luther King speech u...
Monday, September 11, 2017

"The vernacular of pornography is now embedded in our culture. Even if you’re not consuming pornography, you’re consuming its logic."

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It's neither an apology nor a boast. The simple fact is I watch almost no television apart from documentaries, most of which are viewed ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Cultural education: Groucho Marx on Dick Cavett, 1969.

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This segment was aired almost 50 years ago at the apex of the Woodstock generation's seeming rejection of tradition (but they're ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Caption contest: There's just nothing to watch on TV.

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Yes, I know. I didn't declare a winner last time. Let's give this illustration a brand new caption. There were plenty of p...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Deutschland '83: Finally, television I'd like to watch.

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I'm notorious for watching very little television -- an hour a week, sometimes two, and just about all of it on the public channels. The...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Hill Street Blues and the end of my era.

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My favorite character was J.D. LaRue. Figures. Hill Street Blues probably was the last old-fashioned, three-network, first-run televisi...
Friday, February 07, 2014

"More people own ferrets than watch Fox News."

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Here's the takeaway summary: Rather than waste time bemoaning Fox’s bogus journalism, liberals should encourage it. The more that Fox...
Thursday, February 06, 2014

Blame the corporation and ad agency, not the singer, for Chrysler's USA beer snub.

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Nothing against hired hand Bob Dylan, but kudos to Fred "New Holland" Bueltmann for putting into words what quite a few brewery pe...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Doc Severinsen, left standing.

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Johnny Carson (2005), Ed McMahon (2009),  Tommy Newsom  (2007) and now Ed Shaughnessy  have died. Doc Severinsen is 85 years old, and ...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

UK 360: Grassroots "up and down the country".

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A new television series in the UK: Community Channel's UK 360 is a brand new fortnightly television magazine show bringing you inspiring...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

B. W. Smith: "It's not just that Ward (Cleaver) is more hip than any of us recall, it's that, were he around today, he'd vote Obama."

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Thanks, Brandon. ---- Ward Cleaver would Vote Obama , by B. W. Smith ( Open Salon ). That's right. You read it here first. Recently, it ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

FCC declares female buttocks to be sexual and excretory organs.

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The ludicrousness of Puritanism never seems to abate, to which now must be added a dusting of gender-specific anatomical wrongheadedness. He...
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