This one is just kinda fun and silly. It’s a welcome to all the new subscribers I’ve gotten over the past, well, week, mostly. There’s a small amount of family history, and some histrionic sketches. No music, no Weeble, but there’s Johnny Fever ( Read more... )

So I’m watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Not the campy and excellent movie, but the T.V. show. I tried it about a year ago, watched the first DVD of the first season, and was totally unimpressed, so I gave up. But, you know, I love Firefly with all my heart, and there are so many folks who just worship the show, that I thought I’d give it ( Read more... )

So, as you guys may know, my new Sunday thing is to lie on the couch all afternoon watching the previous weeks’ worth of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s pretty nice, and I enjoy it very much, but this week I couldn’t.  For some reason my computer refused to play their videos. And only theirs; I can go to YouTube or Cracked and watch whatever ( Read more... )

I can’t believe I didn’t remember this before. This is what I get for going so long without watching my beloved West WingDo you remember, waaaaaay back in the first season, that President Bartlet had a Navy major as his personal physician? He died not too far into the series, but before he did, he and Bartlet had some excellent conversations. A ( Read more... )

I would still have a TV.

Some British magazine or another is compiling a list of the “Dumbest Quiz Show Answers Ever.” Which, pity the folks that have to go back and watch thousands of hours of old quiz shows to determine that, huh?
Anyway, I heard one of the answers that’s got a shot at making the list, and wanted to share it with you good people. In response to the ( Read more... )

Well, now, this is an interesting story, although it's possible that no one else will think it's as neat as I do:
You know how some people are able to anticipate the zeitgeist, to predict what’s gonna become popular and important before other people can? Well, one such man is Fred L. Worth of Sacramento. He saw the whole trivia craze coming before ( Read more... )

I post this for two reasons. First, you gotta love John Waters, and this is a good interview. Second, I just wanna see if this will work. And man, I am seriously interested in seeing this show (says the man without a television).

The first season of The Tick is out on DVD. It's, like, twenty bucks. Buy it. Do yourself a huge favor and buy it. Even if you have to go without food for a couple of days to raise the money, buy it. If you have to whore yourself out for the cash, BUY IT!!!  It's entirely fucking worth it.