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Idol Blogging – Lucky 7

Lil Rounds – Have a nice flight home. Kris – Wow. He took one of the quintessential disco songs and did it acoustic with bongo drums, and it worked. Danny – Meh. So he can sing, we get that. His shtick is getting a little old IMHO. Allison – Sounded like Heart coveting Donna Summer. [...]

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How to alientate your audience in one step

1. Rename you network and insult your core audience. “The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular,” said TV historian Tim Brooks, who helped launch Sci Fi Channel [...]

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My DISH has eyes

Late this morning my cell phone rang while I was reading in the car at the farm. It was DISH network. They noticed that my satellite signal was low and wanted to know if they needed to come out on Monday to adjust the dish. I had just fixed the dish about 2 hours earlier. [...]

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Does Sheldon have Asperger’s?

I’m a big fan of The Big Bang Theory on CBS. I’d never really thought about this before, but character Sheldon Cooper certainly does display all the classic traits of Asperger’s. Either way the show is funny. Any show that will make a reference to the spherical cow joke and just expect it’s audience to [...]

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Legos are cool

And this is very cool. Via Wheaton

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Online chat with Neil Patrick Harris

He gives some damn funny answers in this. Although I’m still not sure if he was kidding about Larry from Three’s Company being the inspiration for Barney Stinson. At first, I thought it was a joke, but them when you think about it a bit…

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The revolution has been co-opted

Remember when you were in 10th grade and feeling all rebellious as you blasted De Leppard Pyromania at full volume when your parents weren’t home? Def Leppard was the musical entertainment tonight on Dancing With The Stars. Viva la revolución! Actually, it makes a lot of sense. The 15 year old girls we were groping [...]

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Who cut the cheese?

In this case, cheese is low grade Mexican heroin cut into common sleeping pills, and it’s apparently a growing problem with Hispanic youth in Texas, with kids as young as 9 showing up at the emergency room with heroin withdrawal symptoms. 9 year old heroin addicts? WTF? I’m taking bets on how long it will [...]

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An epic acheivement in geekdom

A detailed time line of what’s happened in Futurama.

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