Archive for the 'television' Category

Goodnight, Mr. Jackson

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Michael Jackson in his famous red jacket. [source]
Like people aroudn the world, I just finished watching the public memorial service for Michael Jackson. The range of people involved in what I can’t help but describe as “the production” really drove home just how widely and deeply Jackson’s death is being felt. The family and friends […]

I’m in Love with Keith Olbermann

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

I am in love with Keith Olbermann. Between the above and the rant I posted earlier in which he berated anti-gay marriage activists for being bigots, I just want to give him a big hug.
YouTube will probably pull the clip, so watch it while you can.

Snakes on a Monday-to-Friday Plane

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Excerpt form the television edit of Snakes on a Plane.
This is more or less exactly what is wrong with television: monkeyfighting snakes on a monday-to-friday plane.

ABC Family: A ’90s kind of family

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

My Fake Fiance. [source]
Joey Lawrence and Melissa Joan Hart are in a made-for-tv movie together on ABC Family. I cannot wrap my head around this. Did the ’90s implode? Was a hole ripped in the space-time continuum, opening a way back to the era that gave us Clueless? Am I finding increasingly lame ways to […]

Flow’s Top 10

Friday, February 6th, 2009

The 2008 Flow Top 10 Lists are live. [source]
The rest of the Flow editorial board and I got together and curated a series of top 10 lists in acknowledgment of awards season and our own compulsion to make lists. I worked most on the video game lists, but the whole thing was a big collaborative […]