UncategorizedDarn hippiesTelevision of the ’60s is notorious for either ignoring what was going in the outside world or caricaturing it in the most...
BooksREVIEW: Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of JapanBook by Robert K. Fitts
UncategorizedI am a woman, I am all womenDespite the Star Trek quote in the subject heading, this post is really one more thing about Girls (which, to repeat, I enjoyed a...
UncategorizedThat anti-Kirk Cameron video......gets plus a million points, from an ’80s child point of view, for including the correct "Evie freezes time" sound effect from...
UncategorizedDoesn’t "reboot" just mean "retool?"First the term "reboot" took over the way we talk about movies, and now it seems to be happening with TV: there are rumours that...
UncategorizedThe most infamous TV cartoonSometimes a bad show becomes legendary if it’s unavailable; because nobody can see it, they’re curious about how bad it is. And so...
UncategorizedTiny Furniture 2: Tinier FurnitureGirls , premiering on HBO on April 15, is going to be part of a lot of conversations about women in TV and women in modern...
UncategorizedTV intros never stop comingI love finding TV intros on YouTube that weren’t there before. You’d think they were all there already, but sometimes a new one...
UncategorizedWhat’s a classic, anyway?There seems to be a surprising amount of talk lately about the past of TV, the split in American TV history that occurred in...
UncategorizedThe CBC CutsHere are links to a couple of articles on the CBC cuts announced today, one in the Toronto Star , the other in the Hollywood...