Posted in December 17th, 2009
On December 17, 1989, the face of television changed forever, as the first episode of The Simpsons aired. It was a half-hour episode featuring a crudely animated family struggling to make their Christmas memorable. Few people would have imagined then that in two decades time, the show would still be profitable.
I won’t pontificate [...]
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Posted in October 12th, 2009
Nope, that’s not a photoshopped picture. It is the real cover of the November 2009 Playboy. And Marge isn’t just on the cover – she’ll also be featured in a pictorial in the magazine as well. It’ll be on newsstands and in the hands of subscribers very soon.
I’m not [...]
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Posted in April 13th, 2009
The Simpsons are coming to a post office near you!
OK, I’m not really a stamp guy, but as a Simpsons fan, this is pretty cool. TV shows have been made into stamps before, but never while the show was still running in primetime. Long live the Simpsons!
The Homer one is great, although I’m not sure [...]
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Posted in March 3rd, 2009
So the missus and I have been trying to buy a used car, and the process is just no fun at all. In part because every time a dealer gives you a final price, at the last minute they decide to add on a huge fee that was never before mentioned.
Why didn’t they check [...]
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Posted in February 19th, 2009
SPOILER ALERT!
I’ve been loving Lost this season, but I think last night’s episode may be my favorite so far. Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Faraday were given the night off, and we got a whole mess of how the Oceanic 6 – Jack in particular – made their way back to the Island. I [...]
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
On to my other shows:
I know it has become rather vogue to rag on Heroes, but I have to jump on this fanboy bandwagon here. Seriously, what is up with this show lately? In Season One, the revelation that Claire was a Petrelli was shocking. Now Sylar is a Petrelli, too? [...]
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Posted in October 15th, 2008
It’s the all-animation edition!
The Simpsons concept of Bart getting a cell phone didn’t sound very funny in principle, but the execution of the show was very well done, I thought. Until of course things sort of unraveled in the third act with the family going to Machu Picchu. But even then I was still [...]
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
Even the mini-reviews are getting to be too much (hey, I watch a lot of shows here), so I think I’m just going to stick to general impressions/thoughts on recent shows, skipping here and there as I go. Hope you enjoy.
The Simpsons’ twentieth (!) season kicked off with a bang, and I found myself laughing [...]
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Posted in September 4th, 2008
Summertime has come and (almost) gone, and now that we’ve all gotten that pesky fresh air and outdoor goodness out of the way, it’s time we can focus on the things that REALLY matter, namely TV. There are only a handful (thankfully) of new shows coming this season that I’m looking forward to [...]
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Posted in July 23rd, 2008
Photo credit: Cornell Alumni Magazine
So I was reading Cornell Alumni Magazine the other day – yeah, I like to keep up on my alma mater, you got a problem with that? – and they had an interesting article on the future of the campus. You know, about how they can expand and improve and modernize [...]
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