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MySoCalledSpace

Add to My Profile | More Videos There was a time, before the rise of blogs, MySpace and Facebook, when people wanting to immerse themselves in the hyper-self-conscious navel-gazing of the self-aware and highly educated had to depend on the TV shows of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Now the people who brought you thirtysomething [...]

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Two-ned In: Happy Birthday to Us

It is a momentous day for three major world religions. Muslims begin the celebration of Ramadan. My people mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. And in the dominant American religion of television worship, we observe the anniversary of the day, two years ago, that a plucky home-design-empire CEO strutted out of jail and onto [...]

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What He Said: Good Shows with Bad Theme Songs

Peter Ames Carlin at the Portland Oregonian (see the blogroll at right) is a regular read at Tuned In HQ, and his latest blog post proves why, hammering the condescending folk whine Little Boxes that opens the otherwise excellent Weeds. When I first heard the Malvina Reynolds song at the opening of the pilot of [...]