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LOST Season 6 predictions

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2 years ago
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In anticipation of the last good serialized sci-fi show left on TV starting it’s final season tonight, I’d like to offer up my predictions for what LOST fans may anticipate over the coming weeks.

  • The Oceanic 815 survivors will make it off the island, only to realize they left the coffee pot on and have to go back again.
  • The meaning of Jack’s other tattoos will be revealed: stubborn, petulant, whiny, and self-righteous.
  • The Smoke Monster will finally speak. It will be voiced by Gary Coleman.
  • Hurley will say “dude” several times.
  • It will be revealed that Jacob is actually Christian Shepherd’s More >

Talking lemons and porn stars: a small collection of 30 Rock parodies

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2 years ago
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Okay, even though this season has gotten off to a rough start, 30 Rock is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows.  And, given my documented fondness for Sesame Street, you can imagine how tickled I was to find this very clever send-up sketch, entitled “30 Rocks.”

I’m quite amused by the fact that Liz Lemon is in fact, a lemon.  Plus, the Alec Baldwin muppet is just awesome.

I was also quite surprised to find out that 30 Rock had become such a pop-culture force as to warrant a porn parody.  I haven’t seen the actual adult film, mind you (honest!), but this trailer for it is pretty damn More >

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DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?

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3 years ago
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Between my Western Digital external hard drive failing right outside of warranty, my frustration with TiVo’s decade-old interface, and service provider DVRs coming-up short, I’ve been thinking a lot about the personal TV choices available to me. And when I think about something a lot, it frequently leads to charts. Especially when money is involved.

So, during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different More >

 

Pretty sure I know why they fired Jeph Loeb from Heroes

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3 years ago
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Dude, even I can't figure out what's going on this season

There’s been a phrase that I’ve been repeating over and over the past couple of weeks while watching Heroes on NBC.  And that phrase pretty much goes like this:

“…the fuck?!?”

This season didn’t start out that bad.  Not nearly as strong as the first season — which was damn good television up until the last five minutes — but at least as good as the second season, which was still watchable, if not excellent.  Then, things started to happen.

“Seriously…the fuck?!?”

Here be SPOILERS if you aren’t caught up to last week’s episode, “The More >

R.I.P. Tim Russert

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3 years ago
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Tim,

You were one of the last respectable TV journalists.  While your passing may let many a politician and CEO breathe a sigh of relief, the rest of us are worse off for your passing.  We can only hope that you’re sitting down at a table this Sunday morning, grilling St. Peter about when the Pearly Gates are actually going to get fixed.

In memory of Tim Russert

1950-2008

The problem with niches…

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4 years ago
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With cable and satellite viewers assaulted with eleventy-billion channels, cable broadcasters have to carve niches for themselves so they can find an audience. This is how we ended up with channels like E! Style, Sleuth, The Food Network, and thirteen different Discovery channels. Within the last five years or so, TBS decided to change its image from that of a low-rent local UHF station that plays reruns of old sitcoms all day, to that of an upscale basic cable network specializing in comedy by playing reruns of old sitcoms all day. They essentially accomplished this by snazzing up their More >

Held hostage by cable

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4 years ago
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My cable internet service went out for about half of last week, which served to remind me how important Internet access really is, and how little choice I have in my area. In the last eight years, I’ve had uninterrupted cable internet service, but thanks to mergers and market trade-offs, I’ve changed cable companies four times. The last time, it was when Comcast and Time Warner Cable divvied up a competitor and decided to trade customers in certain markets, just like that. I can’t imagine any other industry where this is possible, can you? It’d be like you had a flight booked on American More >

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