For the next few days you can hear an online preview of the new R.E.M. album at iLike. They’ve been my favorite band for a very long time, and yet it’s been hard to say that lately. But this new stuff is good! They emerged at the end of the experimentation tunnel with a few [...]
When the very first image on the screen featured a mascot bunny rabbit in a fist fight, I was hopeful. The premise behind Miss Guided is strong. Becky Freely, who was horribly awkward in high school, returns as an adult to her same school, now in the role of guidance counselor. Smart idea, and fleshing [...]
I will leave it to others to provide lengthy reactions to Barack Obama’s speech on race, delivered today in Pennsylvania. However, I highly urge you to view it in its entirety–as it may become the stuff of future text books–and I will offer this one thought: For several decades, our leaders and media have dumbed [...]
CBS’s Monday night of sitcoms came back last night, with season-high ratings. See? People still love sitcoms. They just needed to go without for a while to realize what they were missing.
Jezebel James is the story of a children’s book editor who learns she is unable to conceive, so she asks her sister Coco to fill in as a surrogate mother. You’ll have to swallow the premise on your own, because the show doesn’t do much of the work for you, except maybe for a scene [...]
“I went to law school, passed the bar in seven states… I’ve become a damned vaudeville act. I need ignorant juries. I need them worried. And I need them to trust me. And that comes down to whether this shirt brings out my eyes.” FANTASTIC opening. Many moments through Canterbury’s Law match the bar set [...]
Jason Segel, star of How I Met Your Mother, is going to be writing the next muppets movie. Having been in both of Judd Apatow’s early, failed-but-excellent TV shows, playing opposite Alyson Hannigan (let’s just call her Willow) on a successful show, and now writing a muppet film? He has officially done all things that [...]
One of the BrevityTV writers just posted this blog entry over at our myspace page. It made me chuckle, so I thought I’d reprint it here. 10 Little-Known Facts about BrevityTV.com Current mood: Ruling 1. BrevityTV.com has access to 29 letters. That’s three more than other Enlglish-utilizing sketch comedy groups. 2. BrevityTV.com has never eaten [...]
Drive, vote, graduate, drink, graduate some more, rent a car without an extra fee. After that, there’s marriage, kids, retirement, but the milestones are more individualized and less age-related. Today, however, I hit one that is definitely age-related. This morning I found my first grey hair. It was in my beard, extra long, and while [...]
I’ve been feeling this weird sensation in my lower left abdomen lately. Always happy to substitute a web site for consultation with a trained professional, I described my symptoms to WebMD. The closest match seems to be “Irritable Bowel Syndrome.” While I’m not impressed by the lack of details of why or what the condition [...]
“In the city that never sleeps, he’s the cop who never dies.” The tag line sums the show right up. It’s all you really need to know, and if you want to know much more, you’re really out of luck. There is very little explanation of WHY a shaman cursed/blessed John Amsterdam to live immortal [...]
At the risk of posting two fantasy role-playing entries in a row, I have to admit to having recently discovered and loved the web series The Guild. Seven “webisodes” long so far, The Guild stars and is written and produced by Felicia Day, whose subtle suffering in performance is on par with a Jason Bateman [...]
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