Television
Jack’s 2012 Fall TV Preview
From my childhood and well into adult life, I bought one issue of TV Guide a year: the Fall Preview. I genuinely looked forward to it. I’d carefully read every summary and look over each cast photo. Then I felt well prepared for the slate of new shows—which to sample, and which to skip. So […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition IV
Having departed an office job since Edition III, I guessed I might start watching a whole lot more television. And, although I don’t shave quite as often as I once did, and a bit more time stretches between doing the laundry, my TV viewing time has actually remained pretty steady. So let’s get caught up, […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition III
Edition I caused a seismic shift in the Nielsen ratings. Edition II sparked a move away from online streaming back to traditional TV viewing. So brace yourself, friends, as it is time for Edition III. The following shows were not on my previous lists, unless otherwise indicated. RECENT FAVORITES American Horror Story (FX, Wednesdays at […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition II
“Jack, it’s been 7 long months since you last told us what you were watching on TV,” begins one of the countless similar notes crowding my in-box. “Please please please update us on your viewing habits.” The public has spoken, and I will capitulate. The following shows were not on the previous list, unless otherwise […]
I Highly Doubt You Have Any Interest in What I’m Watching on TV
But I’m going to tell you anyway. I have never been ashamed to admit that I’m extremely fond of television. Oh, I know, it rots the brain and making weak for form writeal of languaging. I don’t care, I likes it! So here are the shows I’ve been watching recently. CURRENT FAVORITES Boardwalk Empire (HBO, […]
Monday on the Today Show
MEREDITH VIERA: Good morning. Citing the equal-time provision, network lawyers have advised us to interview the 6,790,926,010 other people around the world who were not trapped in a runaway balloon last Thursday. So, let’s get started with…um….Curtis Lisspenard of Spotsylvania, Virginia. I hope I’m pronouncing that right?CURTIS LISSPENARD: Lisspenard or Spotsylvania? MV: Oh. Ho-ho. That’s […]
Overheard at Du-par’s
The other morning I ate breakfast within earshot of an interview with the woman who created the T.V. show Saving Grace. She had some interesting advice for anyone who wants to learn everything there is to know about acting. “Watch the first season of Saving Grace.”
Today’s Parade Magazine…
…contained this quote from Henry Winkler, on the phrase ‘jumping the shark’: “I also ‘jumped the shark’ on Arrested Development. To be fair, writing 22 sitcom episodes each season is harder than climbing Everest without clothes”. I must confess I don’t understand this quote. (Several pages later is our old friend the Amish Miracle Heater […]
Park bench in Calabasas, CA
In case you’ve never heard of her, if you’ve watched tv in the seventies or eighties or have seen a movie in that time you have seen her. I’ll leave you with “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
Found in Closet: part two of four
This one’s a messenger bag, with a little banana and an Nike swoosh (?!) below it. Can you identify the banana? Baloney cat is being really annoying, he keeps purring wildly and laying on the bag. That’s right, it’s an Arrested Development bag. How have I never noticed this bag before?I do feel like I’m […]
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