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I’m on vacation this week. I’ll probably post occasionally, because I’m a sad, lonely man who needs the attention.
In the meantime, why not entertain yourselves by fighting with each other in the Comments section? I’ll start you off. The Office–are you on Team Pam or Team Karen? I say Beesly had her chance and Jim needs to move on. Have at it!
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It seems like just the other day I was speculating that, with the shifting political balance in Washington from Republicans to Democrats, activists who want more regulation of primetime TV would shift their focus from sex to violence. Oh, wait: it was. Well, today comes news that, in fact, the FCC wants to ask Congress to pass …
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Sunday brings us the third, and it looks like unfortunately last, season of Slings and Arrows, Sundance’s Canadian-import backstage comedy set at a theater festival. (No relation, the producers swear.) In this season, the once-struggling New Burbage festival is struggling with success, flush with money and praise from a recent hit but …
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Has there been a better episode of The Office this year than last night’s? (I’d ask if there had been a better episode of any sitcom this year, but that would be redundant.) The show worked on so many levels, used so many characters well, hit so many different notes of comedy and pathos that it’s almost as if it were showing …
The New York Times has a front page story today that’s going to rock New York’s Museum of Modern Art for some time to come. It appears that MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry, who is already one of the best paid museum officials in the U.S., was even better paid than we knew. For more than eight years he was also getting compensation from a …
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Maybe Tuned In readers don’t need to be pointed to my essay on Anna Nicole Smith in the new TIME magazine, since it’s essentially an expanded version of this blog post. But think of it as the DVD director’s cut.
There is one other thought I didn’t manage to work into the piece. Was anyone else bothered by the sneering classism in the …
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My encounter with the rough-and-tumble world of confessional-parents’ literature continues, as “new urban parent” magazine Babble’s Strollerderby blog hosts the first part of a Q&A with me, about my thoughts about Strollerderby’s thoughts (and thoughts and thoughts) about my thoughts. That’s right: the first part–the literary …
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In addition to the usual Thursday-night menu of Survivor, The Office and 30 Rock, I have a date, or at least my TiVo does, with The O.C., as I get ready to see it off. (Props to Josh Schwartz for going out with an earthquake, Altman-style.)
Anybody else with me? I’d love to see the Venn diagram of Swampland readers and Rachel Bilson …
Tyler Green’s blog has a posting this morning about the impending (and depressing) sale by Fisk University of two important canvases from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, which Stieglitz’s widow Georgia O’Keeffe donated to the school in 1949, three years after his death. You can also read more about the complicated case here.
One of …
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Just after GM got in trouble for airing a Super Bowl ad about a robot dreams about committing suicide, Volkswagen started running a commercial in which a man threatens to jump off a building–complaining about global warming, alienation from his neighbors and reality TV–until someone drives up and tells him that VW is selling three …
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SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this until you’ve watched last night’s Lost. But don’t blame me if you have a mysterious premonition about this post in the meantime.
There was a split at the Tuned In household over this episode. I thought it was a good episode… of The Twilight Zone. As an episode of Lost–eh. It established that Desmond has …
From medieval and gothic romances to recent classics, the politics of love transcend time.
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In my 24 post this morning I wrote:
The PTC has certainly criticized violence in TV before. But I wonder if they’ve savvily realized that–with the Democrats on the rise–they’ll get farther in the current political climate with anti-violence rather than anti-sex campaigns. (The former being liberals’ preferred arena of meddling in pop
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