Worst Weekend Ever
No, this post title isn’t referring to anything bad that happened to me over the past weekend. (In fact, it was a perfectly nice three-day break.) Rather, I’m referring to the band Vampire Weekend, whose irritating son...
No, this post title isn’t referring to anything bad that happened to me over the past weekend. (In fact, it was a perfectly nice three-day break.) Rather, I’m referring to the band Vampire Weekend, whose irritating son...
When I sit down to watch a Christmas special for most shows, I do so with great apprehension and the expectation of a truly awful episode. ‘Doctor Who’ is another matter entirely. The Christmas episode is usually among...
Something kind of amazing happened over the last week – something I haven’t experienced since… well, I honestly can’t remember how long. I didn’t even think it was possible. Yes, I’ve officially watched eve...
Remember when supercomputer Deep Blue handed (human) chessmaster Gary Kasparov his ass back in 1997? Child’s play, that was. Chess is a straightforward game of logic and strategy. Computers haven’t been much good figur...
Pretty much every television series that I watch is on break until after the holidays. This has given me time to dig through most of my DVR recordings. One of the last shows to air a new episode was ‘Castle’, back on D...
I said last week that the ‘Fringe’ episode in which Olivia finally returned home from the alternate universe felt very much like a finale, or at least a “fall finale.” I was surprised to see one more episod...
So much has been happening behind the scenes of ‘The Walking Dead’, the smash hit television series based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book, that it has almost eclipsed what’s been going on in the show (namely...
It’s that time of year for TV shows to roll out their very special Christmas-themed episodes before taking a break until after the holidays. ‘Glee’ dutifully obliged the tradition with last week’s entry, de...
The Golden Globe awards have long been considered a joke in the film industry. The criteria by which the Hollywood Foreign Press Association picks its winners are frequently puzzling, to say the least. Voting members seem more daz...
No doubt like most of you, I’ve viewed the promos for NBC’s upcoming superhero series ‘The Cape’ with disdain. It looks like a third-rate knockoff of the worst season of ‘Heroes‘. And that’...
I’ve written previously about losing shows I’ve recorded when my DVR hit its storage capacity limit and had to delete whatever was oldest. As if that weren’t painful enough, it seems that the DVR has taken things...
The Christmas season really switches things up. People spend money like crazy, stressing themselves out over little things. And folks that seem so calm get wrapped up into the spirit. Even stranger, ‘The Office’ was th...