Thomas Hoving, former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harlan Ellison has written
(Edited to add: Well, I will be sheep-dipped. You can get at least the first season of “Burke’s Law”
Archive for the ‘TV’ Category
Obit watch.
Friday, December 11th, 2009How can we dance when our Earth is turning?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009We don’t have to worry about that now. CBS has cancelled “As the World Turns”.
(I like the song, but I’ve always thought that particular lyric was rather stupid. If the Earth wasn’t turning, dancing would be the least of our concerns.)
Random notes: December 2nd, 2009.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009(I had originally considered calling this post “Rum, S—-y, and the Lash” but I couldn’t find any good articles about whipping. Plus, I don’t want to get filtered.)
Did you know the NYT had a “Winter Drinks Issue” in the Dining section? Neither did I. Articles include one about the rise of rum, and an excellent article by Harold McGee
By way of Jimbo, here’s a good article on Richard Loeb (of Leopold and Loeb
Just in case you were wondering what Roseanne Barr is doing, you now have your answer.
Edited to add: I knew I forgot something. I won’t be watching this tonight. (I don’t, and won’t, have cable; I’ve asked someone if they’d be willing to record it for me.) That won’t stop me from linking to Alan Sepinwall’s review:
…with his new reality show “Steven Seagal: Lawman,” Seagal has cemented his position as an accidental comedy savant. It’s easily the funniest thing he’s done since the climactic speech from “On Deadly Ground” (his infamous directorial debut about evil oil companies polluting the Alaskan wilderness), and one of the more entertaining additions to the Has-Beens On Parade reality sub-genre.
Random notes: November 25, 2009.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Shocked, shocked I am to learn that The Biggest Loser may indulge in questionable practices. I am equally shocked to learn that a charity collecting money for the homeless may be a scam.
I am delighted to find out that the CIA Family Advisory Board has published a second cookbook, More Spies, Black Ties, and Mango Pies. I own a copy of the original 1997 cookbook
I did not know Julie “Julie and Julia
Edited to add: On the “Art, damn it, art!” front: “Train” in vain.
(Since I got the song stuck in your head, here’s a live Clash video. And here’s a live Annie Lennox version. And here’s a not bad Manic Street Preachers cover.)
“This America, man.”
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Lawrence suggested that I blog this; I think he wanted it as a bookmark to watch later. (Warning: contains language.)
They got most of the quotes I like, though some of them are cut short. (Stringer Bell’s “Later for that gangster bullshit” speech, Rawls’ “gaping a–hole” speech to McNulty (in context, the whole speech is actually pretty unexpected and moving), “…then we fight on that lie”.) How could you not pick up anything from Snot Boogie, though?
(I can understand not using the Bunk-McNulty crime scene investigation – that stands by itself.)
For the folks who were at dinner tonight…
Friday, August 21st, 2009…here’s the link to the Wikipedia entry on Heil Honey I’m Home!
Edited to add: Lawrence provides us with a link. And a warning: “Some two and a half minutes in, it’s actually worse than it sounds.”
Yeah. I lasted about three and a half minutes.