I’ve been meaning for a while to add two of my favorite art/architecture sites to my blogroll. Time.com’s crack squad of techies will put the links up on my roll on Wednesday. Meanwhile, I’ll post them here.
C-monster.net is a very comprehensive and frequently hilarious art news aggregator. It has led me to waste many precious hours …
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What do I, a professional TV critic, watch on New Year’s Eve? The inside of my eyelids. I pride myself on passing out well before the stroke of midnight these days, partly from parental exhaustion, partly because Mrs. Tuned In and I throw a New Year’s Day Open House and I need to wake up and cook, and partly because I hate New Year’s Eve …
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How well do we really know each other? I mean sure, you know what I watch on TV and I know what you watch on TV. But heretical as it is to say it, there are other things in life besides TV. You’re all people of strong opinions and distinct tastes: What’s on your iPod, on your bookshelf, in your kitchen?
I’ll start. Here are a few non-TV …
I started this blog on Jan. 5 of this year, so I’m closing in on the first anniversary. I won’t bore you with a rundown of the various Lessons I’ve Learned. (For instance, did you know there’s just one “l” in pavilion? I finally mastered that one at the Venice Biennale.) But in the end-of-the-year spirit, here’s one last list. I’ve …
Okay, I’m back from my holiday vacation break, and practically the first thing I learn is that Zahi Hawass, the irrepressible head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced that Egypt’s parliament will shortly consider a law that would put his nation’s museum pieces and monuments, including the pyramids, under copyright …
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I’ve said this before, but any top-10 list is really a top 9 list, plus about a 20-way tie for 10th. When I put together my lists of the top 10 new and returning shows, there were numerous shows that might have made the lists, had they been a touch better, had I been in a different mood that day or, frankly, for no good reason at all. …
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You didn’t think I’d let the year end without doing this list, did you? To hell with the holiday spirit!
1. The Writers’ Strike. You need not have a side in this confict to hate it, so long as your side happens to be opposite a TV screen filled with reruns and game shows. Pay the freakin’ writers and end it already!
2. On the Lot. This …
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Isn’t there anyone out there who can tell me what Christmas is all about?
Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you. Lights, please.
Christmas is about shaking it like a Polaroid picture.
Happy hols, all.
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I decided not to robo-post a daily Morning After thread over break, there being so little original TV on during the holiday weeks. But I’ll leave this up as a general hangout / do-it-yourself discussion area for the week. Have fun! Use the coasters!
To keep you moderately entertained today, here’s a link to a Time.com podcast of an oddball intellectual exercise carried out last week by Time‘s arts section staff — the critics who write about movies, television, books, pop music and, ahem, art and architecture, as well as our distinguished arts section editor — all of us disputing …
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In the TIME landing with a papery thump on a newsstand near you, I wrap things up with a closing essay dedicated to a certain Person of the Year from the recent past…
Hey there, You! It’s been, what, a year? I don’t think I’ve seen You since we named You Person of the Year 2006. What did we praise You for again? Oh, right: “for
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The same caveat applies here as to my ten-best episodes list yesterday–I didn’t keep a list through the year, this is largely off the top of my head and impressionistic–only more so. In fact, for fairness’ sake I’m not going to bother to number it. Here we go:
Flight of the Conchords, Foux de Fa Fa. Why did I leave FOTC off my best …
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I promised you a list of the 10 best TV episodes of the year, and here it is. But first a caveat. Because I didn’t really plan ahead well, I didn’t do what I do for my top 10 shows list, which is to keep a running tab throughout the year. So this is really more like The 10 Best TV Episodes That Came to Mind When I …
