Fannie, I wish I’d never seen your faceWhy was there even such a thing as the "Zero Down Payment Act”?
100 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...
The 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...
NBC 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...
Time for your annual corporatoscopyPerformance reviews are awkward, frightening and unpleasant. Let’s get started!
Maziar Bahari and Iran’s Press TVPress TV, an English-language TV station based in London that functions as a propaganda arm of Iran’s foreign ministry, may soon...
Unmemorable Show, Memorable EpisodeThis turned up on YouTube last week; I was (pathetically) a bit proud that I highlighted it on Twitter a few minutes before the...