Moving took me mostly offline for about a week between days dedicated to packing/unpacking, the move itself, and that gap between when you move and when you can get the cable hooked up, but I'm back and mostly caught up! Being offline is the worst, seriously, especially when you also don't have TV.

Hey check out piratecore's entry in "What does the Great ( Read more... )

You know how every year, folks complain that there are nothing but reruns in March and April, or curse the networks for putting a favorite show on hiatus and replacing it with some new thing, and every year I explain how sweeps work? Well, this year is going to be totally different ( Read more... )

Ah spring, when a network's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of reruns. Yes, friends, it's that time of year again, when your favorite network drama seems to go on an endless hiatus. Usually I've written this in a comment here or there, but I'm setting it down, now, in hopes that in later years I can just point to it. Okay, ready? Let's go.

( Part 1: TV Dramas Are Pricey! )

I don't really like manifestos. I don't think writing something extreme really moves forward the conversation; it more allows people to ignore the interesting thought that might be in the middle of all the condescension and villify the author. Those that agree can clutch the book to their breasts; those that disagree can throw out the book with ( Read more... )

1. Music lovers: Check out Idolator and get back to me. It's the new music-and-music-industry blog from the folks who brought us defamer, gawker and Consumerist.
   
2. I've worked out that my issue with the Gap ad isn't the ad itself, but the idea that the Gap is trying to get us to buy skinny black pants. First, three people look good in skinny black pants and none ( Read more... )

I was thinking about how excited I am that there will be new VM tonight, which reminded me about that WB-UPN merger. (Hence the sifl & olly "I am a media geek" icon rather than the Veronica and Weevil drive off into the sunset icon.) ( The merger: Good for the viewer, bad for channel 9, because it's Les's world and we just live in it. )

There's a meme going 'round about websites you visit daily and you know, for me nothing has ever been able to replace the pure joy that was suck.com. I read that thing every day through my early media career in the 90s, when everything was go-go-go and so much fun and I was not yet 30. My own personal Memoirs of the Clinton Administration ( Read more... )

( 1. Being a Fan, only not, part 1 )

Some pet peeves from my peevish afternoon at work:

1. Homeric epithets in slash. They have names; use them. The blond, the Texan, the older man? Knock it off.
   
2. People who don't know how to handle an umbrella on the sidewalk. Get a clue.
   
3. Non-scientific polls. People don't vote for that shit with any judgment; they vote for the name that they ( Read more... )

I don't usually do those tirades where you say that you are sick of reading entries that all say the same thing, but I'm making an exception today.

I'm tired of reading entries from people who are tired of the way that the media covers international events. I have spent so much time on this journal trying to explain the way that economic ( Read more... )