Screening Myself
I’ve been getting headaches a lot lately. Growing up, I’d get migraines from time to time, but they went away for the most part. Now I seem to be getting throbbing headaches at least once a month, including several the past week. Usually my headaches are attributable to something specific, like if I didn’t get [...]
Watch Fringe
There are two great paranormal science fiction shows on network television right now. The obvious one is Lost. The other, the one that I’m here to recommend to you today, is Fringe. I’m writing about Fringe today instead of Lost because following yesterday’s episode, Fringe announced that it wouldn’t be returning until April, when it [...]
Supersize Me, NBC
Remember those “supersized” episodes of Friends that took 40 minutes to watch but were really just as long as normal episodes because of all the commercials (okay, commercials plus one or two scenes that should have been deleted and wouldn’t make the cut for a normal episode)? Remember those? I want supersized Office and 30 [...]
Football in 3D
I was at the movies yesterday (Marley & Me, actually good, maybe a post on that later) when I noticed a poster advertising tonight’s BCS Football Championship Game (Florida vs. Oklahoma) in 3D at the theater, live. I was intrigued…not intrigued enough to go dish out $9.50 to watch the event, since I can watch [...]
How to Inject Yourself, Heroes-Style
I was watching my final episode of Heroes tonight (the show has gradually–no, rapidly–progressed to become one of the worst-written shows I’ve ever seen. Worse than Full House), and I couldn’t help but notice a trend that has persisted throughout this season: People stabbing themselves with syringes. I would think that if you had a [...]
A Tribute to Dave Barry (Yes, He's Still Alive)
When I was growing up, there was one section in the paper I looked forward to before the comics (when young) and the sports section (when not as young): Dave Barry’s weekly column. If you haven’t heard of Dave Barry, I highly recommend you check out his work. I’m sure you can find it with [...]
The Last Person on Earth
Even though you’ve probably never had this said to you, you’ve heard the expression, “I wouldn’t do X with you if you were the last person on earth” (X usually being some sort of sexual act or light petting). Let’s have X stand for “kiss” for the sake of this blog entry. I wouldn’t kiss [...]
Fringe
I’m going to keep this short since I’m sleepy. Fringe is an awesome, cool new show in the same vein as X-Files…weird phenomenon being investigated by a small team of individuals, several of whom may become romantically involved at some point. It’s fresh, it’s well written, and it’s a little creepy and scary. My one [...]
Hole in the Wall
A friend of mine called me the other night in dismay about this television show he was trying not to watch. Hole in the Wall, it’s called. Basically, a large foam wall with interesting shapes cut out of it moves towards you and your teammates, and you have to conform to the holes so you [...]
Mad Men
I can’t take it anymore. I have to write about this show. Honestly, I wish I could talk like the men on Mad Men. They’re advertising executives, many of them (“mad men” is a combination of “ad men” and “Madison-Avenue men”), so they’re supposed to know how to use words well, but the writers of [...]
A Man of the Cloth in a Roundtable Discussion
There’s a company in St. Louis called Peters Marketing Research that conducts surveys and roundtable discussions with consumers about various products. I participated in such a discussion a few years ago about my condo building, and I enjoyed the experience. It was fun, casual, and we got paid. Recently I got an e-mail from Peters [...]
Lost Until 2009
So that’s it, folks. The end of the fourth season of Lost. Two more to go. Seven long months to wait. This wasn’t the mind-bender of an episode that was last season’s finale, but it sure was entertaining. The fight between Kemmee and Sayid was one of the best one-on-one action sequences I’ve seen in [...]
Lost and Found
Note: If you have not seen Thursday night’s Season Four Lost premiere, do not read on. I’m one of the people who trust the Lost producers. I trust that they know all of the mysteries of the island. I trust that each of the characters is purposefully and intentionally created. I trust that everything will [...]
