Freeing a hostage ...The Pakistan Observer is reporting that two Taliban leaders held on charges of terrorism and murder of foreign troops were...
MUSIC: Playlist, 10 November 2008This isn’t what comes up randomly on my iPod. It’s a belated reply to Doug Bell, who at the very wonderful 10th-anniversary secret...
The Monday mailbag returns... and there was much rejoicing*As it was foretold in the scriptures, so it has come to pass: The Monday Mailbag is risen from the dead. Sadly, the fabric it was...
Weekend Flop Viewing: CUPIDWith the remake going into production , let’s re-familiarize ourselves with one of the great cult flops of the ’90s, Rob Thomas’s...
"Sadly, Most Of Those People Became Sterile From Years of Watching Larry King."Box art for seasons 3 and 4 of Duckman , which will come out on January 6, giving us the entire series (minus whatever Paramount...
MUSIC: Bartoli Croons Her Tunes, Public SwoonsOpera superstar Cecilia Bartoli is probably the only artist with the sales clout to get a major corporation to invest in a studio...
Shows That Would Be Better With Less Or More SerializationIn many ways, there’s no longer a distinction between serialized shows and shows with self-contained episodes. There used to be a...
Have you paid your debt to society, ambitious Liberals? Uh-ohOver the Inkless transom comes this brown envelope from the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec), in anticipation of this weekend’s...
DOLLHOUSE Warning Signs, Book VII’ve noticed that I do too many posts fretting that some genre show may be in trouble (be it Pushing Daisies or Cupid or Dollhouse...
What a bunch of fuddy-duddiesOoh, make the bad blog redesign go awaaay! Ooh, change is good if it’s a skinny black U.S. president, but bad if it’s a sans serif...