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TV Weekend: Votes 'n' Viruses

Back when I did a column on HBO’s Recount, I thought, and may have made the mistake of saying in public, that I would give the movie a longer review-review when it was about to come out. Well, here we are, it’s the Friday before Memorial Day, I’m finishing up something for the magazine, it’s [...]

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Catching Up…

…or, Brief Posts on Shows I TiVoed and Watched So Late That You No Longer Care What I Think About Them, If You Ever Did to Begin With: * Gossip Girl. I had a similar experience with this show as I did with Reaper, though I never fell out of love with it as completely. [...]

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Double Dead Tree Alert: or, Why Magazine Writers Hate Newspaper Writers

Crab fishing is a bitter fight for scarce resources. And so is TV criticism. / Cameron Glendenning / Discovery Channel In the magazine business, we have a thing called “lead time.” It means that many of the pieces you read in a print magazine like Time—especially anything not having to do with breaking news—gets written [...]

A Chip Off the Old Block

Stonehenge /WIKIPEDIA COMMONS I’m busy today finishing up a piece for the magazine, so I won’t have much to say. But a bit of news caught my eye this morning. Back in March I posted about plans to build a big merchandise warehouse not far from Stonehenge, which will mean a major increase in traffic [...]

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The Morning After: Wrapping Up

L-Lo suits up for prime time. / KAREN NEAL/ABC It’s May, and that means time to let a bunch of season finales accumulate unwatched on my TiVo. To the pile last night we added the two-hour finale of Grey’s Anatomy and the Lohan-ized episode of Ugly Betty. I once enjoyed Ugly Betty a lot, but [...]