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Economic Fixx

Apropos of songs being appropriated for commercials, my colleague Sean Gregory writes about that Toyota ad. One thing, as they say, leads to another.

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Fringe Watch: I Stand Corrected

Brief spoilers for Fringe coming up after the jump. 

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Things I Learned By Watching the DWTS Results Show

* Dancing With the Stars—which I will admit off the bat I do not watch any more than I absolutely have to—has added a little dance competition within the dance competition, this one with little “Ballroom Kids” competing. If only American Idol had thought to do this with their results show, we would have been [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: The Littlest Miss Sunshine

The TLC network has done a pretty remarkable job lately of targeting a particular psychographic: parents, largely but not exclusively moms, particularly of young children, who (like myself) are inordinately nosy about the lives and choices of other parents. Sometimes we want to see their tearjerking stories (A Baby Story et al.), sometimes we want [...]

Goodbye to the “Wow” Factor?

We all know what will happen to construction in the Big Recession. There’ll be a lot less of it. But what will happen to architecture? A few weeks ago the British architect David Chipperfield told an interviewer that he expected a prolonged recession would mean less flamboyant design, fewer buildings that rely on extravagant departures [...]

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Auf Wiedersehen Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Am I the only one who thinks taking a court-ordered season or so off would actually be a good thing for Project Runway?

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Shield Watch: Time to Have That Talk

Spoilers for this week’s The Shield coming up after the jump: 

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Tuned In's Past Comes Back to Haunt Us

Not that you noticed them missing in the first place, but the archives of Tuned In—which vanished from the Internet in the Great Time.com Blogtastrophe of 2008—have been restored. Which is probably as good a time as any to ask if there are any improvements or features you’d like to see added to the blog now [...]