I recall watching the old V (1984-85) [mini series, part 1] with much vigor.  The effects were appropriately cheesy for the time, but it was a somewhat interesting story until it derailed after a season.  So, it was with anticipation that I awaited the new incarnation.

The original subtext of racism and holocaust has been replaced with one of ( Read more... )

The fall television seasons are kicking themselves into life. Hulu makes it much easier to catch the many pilots flying furiously past. The 2002 Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones seems to have it’s hand heavily on a new offering from ABC: The Forgotten.


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I almost never turn on my TV anymore. I watch TV shows streamed over the Internet. It’s like having a DVR without needing a DVR. Mostly I watch on Hulu, but sometimes on SyFy (recent rebranding of SciFi) or CBS or Boxee.

I’ve been watching The Listener recently. Like most shows, the new episodes show up in my queue the day after they aired ( Read more... )

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The juxtaposition of two videos I saw today is eerily representative of the current state of American affairs.

The national hero, Buzz Aldrin, speaking on the future of space travel. It all sounds great, unless you listen to more that five contiguous words and try to make a coherent concept out of them.

Obviously Xeni Jardin had a great ( Read more... )

This looks too good not to see.

Coming this week, … through the tubes!

Neil Patrick Harris - Doogie, Kumar, Your Mother, et al.
Nathan Fillion - Firefly
Felecia Day - The Guild (and a math degree from UT!)
Josh Whedon - the creator


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I have an over-large expensive 301 disc DVD/CD player. But it’s fairly old (no HDMI output). The Pioneer DV-F727 got slightly flaky before it stopped working all together.

Some investigation showed that the mechanism to spin the disc is what failed. With all the other moving parts I thought it would have been something else.

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“Could you point to the Angus area?”


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