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TV News of the Day
Good/bad news: HBO has ordered a fourth season of Treme, but a) it's only going to be five episodes long and b) after that, c'est finis. I'm grateful for any amount of this show with which they are willing to provide me, but why is it always the best stuff that ends up having to struggle for survival? I would have happily taken less of The Sopranos ( Read more... ) -
And now, this...
I never watched The West Wing, not for lack of interest but because it was one of those shows that I kept vowing I was going to catch up with one of these days and it just never happened. Having watched the first season of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, I now want more than ever to take a look at the man's earlier success.
The new show is, in theory ( Read more... ) -
Just Another Day in Right-Wing Opposite World
I can say, as a liberal and someone who respects the concept of the Olympics but doesn't have any particular personal stake in them, that Romney's words about the British preparedness for the big show don't really bother or offend me as such. Mind you, I don't have a problem if they end up turning people off of him - they were, after all, impolitic ( Read more... ) -
Tucker
The first time I took Tucker to the hospital, he ended up taking me with him, in a manner of speaking. I had taken plenty of cats to the vet before, but he was the largest I had ever tangled with and I was unprepared. Not too long before I finally managed to get him into the carrier, he sank his fangs deep into my arm ( Read more... ) -
What You Say?
"Ten years from now we're going to be sorry we're doing this [but] it has to be done."- Quote attributed to anonymous CIA officer from recently released report on agency abuse of detainees.I know many on the left are upset with Obama's progress and I don't blame them, for the most part, but I have to say, while I expected something like this to ( Read more... ) -
Poison Smiles
I belong to a few small online forums, and one in particular is particularly small. It doesn't even have a theme per se; just a number of people who met at another forum and eventually gravitated to a smaller place. Two things are relevant to the rest of this: 1) we do talk about politics and we are all fairly liberal and 2) to keep the place free ( Read more... ) -
Porous Was She
While channel-surfing the other day, I happened across an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. I hadn’t seen the show for a while and as I was watching it, an amusing memory surfaced.
I used to work in a video store. This was before the DVD revolution, so we trafficked mostly in tapes. After several years behind the counter, I was promoted to ( Read more... ) -
Two Left Fate
New York Aberrant, March 14, 2009
While some may disdain the increase in public security cameras (and let’s not even get into the worldwide amateur film festival that has resulted from all the cell phones out there), what society at large has lost from the sense of constant scrutiny has been a gain for us here at the Aberrant in as much as we are ( Read more... ) -
Just a Little Light
Note bene: Despite the spate of recent entries, this was never intended to be a political blog, not exclusively anyway, but it was intended to be updated far more regularly than it has been. I have no problem writing about politics when that’s what’s on my mind (and will prove as much in a minute), but I’m also going to try to be a bit more varied ( Read more... ) -
Out of Season
Once again, the holidays are gone with but a few fumes remaining. Soon, everything will go back to "normal." Which puts me in mind of the most trenchant thing I read this season. It was in an e-mail from one of the far-too-many activist lists I'm on. I wish I could remember which group it was because it really put the skeeball right in the center ( Read more... )
