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Lost Day Minus One: Excess Freight

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 …

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The Morning After: Summer Programming

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 …

The Daily Show

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 …

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Keith Olbermann Blows Last Remaining Gasket

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 …

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The Morning After: Picking Up Where We Left Off

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 …

The Long March

Kneeling Archer, Qin Dynasty, 221-206 B.C. / © WANG DA-GANG

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 …

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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 70 degrees and sunny in New York City and …

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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. Before the strike, I was starting to lose interest in the soap: I …

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