Happy Day Before Lost Day! Consider this a thread for any theories, thoughts, restless anticipation, etc. , but I thought I’d kick off discussion with a question that’s bugging me as we go forward to the finale: What becomes of the four Freighties?
The stories of Daniel, Miles, Charlotte and Frank hardly seem finished, and we’ve …
I started doing these Morning After posts last fall as a way of dealing with the rush of new programming: it was a way to slap up a quick post for discussion of shows that aired the night before but that I hadn’t had time to write full-fledged posts about. We’re starting the summer now, and I have the opposite problem: there’s not as …
10-31-79. / All images: PHOTO OF THE DAY, 1979-1997
I spent a good part of Tuesday night looking at a website of Polaroids taken by Jamie Livingston, a film maker and musician who shot one a day from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997, almost 6700 altogether. Sometimes he may have had a friend take the picture, because he appears …
One more bit of post-upfront fall-schedule news: The CW has announced its Sunday-night lineup, which it contracted out to studio Media Rights Capital. On tap, dirty jobs, family comedy—and a whole lot of product integration:
While we’re talking about MSNBC, at The New Republic, Obama supporter Isaac Chotiner argues that not only is MSNBC biased toward his candidate, but that that bias has actually harmed Obama:
…by mocking Clinton’s decision to stay in the race, Olbermann has only bolstered her argument that “the boys” are trying to push her out. And
The other day while writing up last week’s Top Chef, I lamented that the show hadn’t found a way to get Anthony Bourdain on every week. It later occurred to me that I should have mentioned, for those of you who didn’t know, that you can get a more regular fix of Bourdain, on his Travel Channel show, No Reservations, which …
So while we were away, Sen. Hillary Clinton apparently made an ill-advised reference to the RFK assassination (and the June timing thereof) by way of explaining her continuing run in the Democratic primary. And apparently Keith Olbermann had a thing or two to say about it:
The substance (or lack thereof) of the controversy …
The long holiday weekend is over, so what better way to ease back into blogging than by posting on the exact same subject I last posted on three days ago? Feel free to post any impressions of the big Memorial Day weekend TV events, HBO’s Recount or A&E’s The Andromeda Strain. Or use this as an open thread for any other weekend TV …
Over the weekend I read The Terra Cotta Army by John Man, a British travel writer and historian. It’s about the thousands of life size clay soldiers and other figures prepared for the tomb of China’s First Emperor in the 3rd century B.C. Last year China shipped out about 20 …
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 70 degrees and sunny in New York City and …
…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. Before the strike, I was starting to lose interest in the soap: I …
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 and put to …
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 along the nearby roads. Now it …