Though I suspect a lot of people will be declaring—as we get into year-end roundup and critic’s-list season—that this was 30 Rock’s year, really what it has been is Tina Fey’s year. She’s on the cover of Vanity Fair, she was the showbiz star of the election with her Palin impersonation and she’s a [...]

  On the first night of HBO’s House of Saddam miniseries, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being shown a prototype of a monument being built to him, a pair of arms bearing crossed swords. It’s very small, Saddam says. The flustered demonstrator explains, nervously and cautiously, that it’s just a model. Saddam laughs. “I was [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Actually, I don’t think anything in the post below constitutes a spoiler of last night’s Office, but if you’re leery of that sort of thing, skip it. 

A year or so ago, I traded e-mails with my fellow time.com blogger Lisa Cullen, of Work in Progress. I don’t remember the original subject, but she asked, in her usual overly modest style, whether there were all that many people you could interest in reading a blog about work, as opposed to, say, politics. [...]

When I saw that the cable guy who arrived to service the Cablecards in my TiVo was carrying a souped-up iPhone that he had custom-hacked himself, I knew everything would be all right. (To recap: I’d been without cable service since Friday, when my HD TiVo died; follow the long boring story backwards from here.) [...]