UncategorizedOur Non-TV TV Viewing OptionsDiane Wild of TV, Eh? has a great post about her decision to switch from watching TV via regular channels (literally) to online...
CultureThe last of the rhyming poetsRichard Wilbur’s meticulously crafted couplets are an anomaly in modern poetry
UncategorizedBe Mental With MeI caught up with the season finale of The Mentalist , one of those shows I don’t watch regularly but sort of feel like I...
Uncategorized100 Year-Old PlaylistsThe success of the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox is quite a delightful thing. It’s a collection of recordings made by the...
UncategorizedThe re-southification of American IdolWith Scotty McCeery’s win, it’s a country music year
UncategorizedThe Integrity of the Smurfs Has Been SmurfedWatching the trailer for the Smurfs movie. Okay, so I grew up with the cartoon series, and therefore I know that the show (like...
UncategorizedNBC is Still NBC, Book 2As Fox and CBS continue to be boring juggernauts and ABC is just flaky and incomprehensible, it’s good to still have (for now) NBC...
TelevisionWomen’s afternoon TV: RIPThe game shows went, then the soaps, and now even Oprah has left the building