When normal people have to do something, they do it. When type-A people have to do something, they do it…and blog about it. Introducing My TV-Free Year, a long, long, long overdue effort. Officially launching on October 23. Countdown already in progress… xxx c “Gaping Maw of Farrah” mashup = farrah_logan (by ambientfusion) + Gaping [...]
Television
The Nightline piece aired last night. As usual, more TV-hooey, the trumped-up gist of which was that brides today want to be photographed like hoors on their wedding day, probably because, as one photog (not mine) put it, “It’s the best they’ll ever look in their lives.” Me? I feel the same way about posing [...]
When you calibrate your afternoon not by the subtle changes in the play of light through your office window but by the shifting of the shrill Judge Judy into the ‘shucks, ma’am’ sucker punch or Dr. Phil… When you feel your ire rise as basket-base-football cuts into The Simpsons and back-to-back repeats of King of [...]
I don’t have a copy of Harriet the Spy handy, but to wildly paraphrase Ole Golly, TV is the perfect thing to do while you’re doing something else. Since the “else” right now is tax prep and other boring-ish stuff, a little crappy TV really hits the spot. I’m getting a little weary of the [...]
Proof that hilarity flows from the top down, Fat Actress is loaded with very funny people (Rachael Harris, Mike McDonald, guests like Mark Curry, even Kirstie Alley herself, once upon a time) who manage to be about as funny as the omelette pan soaking in my sink. So what happened? Hubris + money + a [...]
Somewhere back in the 1980′s, someone shanghai’d my Oscars® and turned them into a who-cares fest. At least, that’s all I can think after (half-)watching 3+ hours of Hollywood crapping all over the Kodak Theater last night. For too long now, the only thing fun about the Academy Awards® has been the parties, and I [...]
Let me state right up front that I am not anti-television. The fact that I was cable-free for five years post-divorce had more to do with my crack-like addition to television than any moral stance against or disdain for the medium. I just assumed that if more than two and a half channels were viewable [...]
In which we continue to draw Life Lessons from this season’s surprise source of integral wisdom (and ripping-good reality TV), “Project Runway.” Lesson 10: There’s No Room for Drama on a Deadline In Episode 4, the designers had to go from working solo to a cluster fuck collaborating in teams! Of three designers each. Mon [...]
