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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

It’s currently sunny on MySpace. Jay Silverman / FX It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia–which I liked fine the first season and really fell for last year–comes back September 13. Or, like, right now, if you direct your browser to MySpace, where a preview season 3 episode is streaming until August 23. I cheated and watched [...]

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Reality TV Is Faked? Are You Shocked? Do You Care?

Today’s New York Post Page Six column blows the lid open on the verisimilitude of MTV reality hit The Hills. If there’s a lid to be blown open. From the piece: [O]n Tuesday night, the star, Lauren Conrad, showed up at Da Silvano for dinner with three friends and a camera crew. One irked diner [...]

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There Are Losses, and Then There Is Loss

Deadline day, which means (1) I probably should be working on that, not this post and (2) I have cable news on in the background, on mute. All morning, CNN has been airing a picture-in-picture inset of the NYSE big board, focused on the numbers for the Dow Jones Industrial average (down about 250 points [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Final Exam

It’s graduation day here at Lost Summer School–I’m on vacation the next two Thursdays, and after that I think we can use a nice little de-Lost-ification break for a while as fall premiere season gears up. So one last question, and probably the biggest one: What role are the Numbers going to play? I don’t [...]