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If you are reading this post, I am already dead. That, or, more likely, I have not managed to blitz out a post about last night’s The Wire before catching a plane for vacation. Which means you’re catching this murder this week. Run with it.
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As a reminder, I’m going on vacation. For the next week, you will be under the emotionless but rational jurisdiction of Robo-James. Don’t make him use the laser eyes.
I’ll see you February 25. Ish.
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As long as we’re navel-gazing on the subject here this week, I should point out that political reporter Chris Cilizza at The Washington Post blogged yesterday that he does not vote, and asked his readers whether they thought that was the right decision for a reporter or not.
There are over 200 posts as of now. By my count, the vote got …
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In this week’s print edition of TIME I look at the controversy over CBS re-airing Dexter, which I’ve blogged about here before. In the column, though, I go a little more into the actual content of the show–which is, among other things, a philosophical look at the nature of morality–as a way of saying that the decision of whether a show …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, go into the secret room behind your bookcase and watch last night’s Lost.
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I’ve thrown last night’s Survivor: Micronesia, the Valentine’s Day edition, on the TiVo pile for now, so feel free to spoil away in the comments. Are you a fan of the favorites or are your favorites the fans?
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Of the many time-wasters the Internet has blesssed us with, one of the finest is the random name generator. You have your porn name generators, your soap-opera name generators, your prison name generators. But unless my Googling skills are poorer than I think, no one has come up with the much-needed Lost Name Generator.
You know what I …
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Here at Corporate Press Release Theater, we usually tend to skip over eyeball-glazing releases from production studios about business transactions. This one, about the sale of hugely successful series-importer Reveille (The Office, Ugly Betty) is an exception because of its implications: Ben Silverman, founder of Reveille, will no longer …
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So the American Idol Semifinal 24 have been selected, and the tween girls, grandmas and Wal-mart music-section buyers of America shed a tear that glasses-wearing, curly-headed, Clay Aiken-y, Josh Groban-y Kyle was cut. So far, the girls seem stronger than the guys; then again, I’m pretty sure the girls always seem stronger than the guys …
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details about upcoming episodes of the series.
When I reviewed Breaking Bad on the basis of the first three episodes, I had one main reservation: that the dark and comic elements of the show were having a hard time meshing, making …
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I’m on vacation next week. Don’t you judge me. You have no idea how hard this job is on my tender, tender eyes.
Unlike my usual February week off (when I just hang around in Brooklyn watching Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr. while they’re on school break), I’m actually going somewhere, so I probaably won’t have much of a chance to post …
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“Wait a minute… words on a prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funions… the writers are back!” –Jon Stewart
The writers’ strike is over, which means I can finally go back to being uninterested in late-night television. I kid, mostly, but it’s true that as far as late-night is concerned, the novelty of …
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As I mentioned just before heading out on vacation, I’ll only be posting once this week, today, to repeat a Valentine’s Day post from last year about the color red. I figured it would be a post that wasn’t really on the news, but as it turns out the religious authorities of Saudi …
