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A Hill To Die On?
The 90s were a great time for television. Thanks to the outsized success of THE COSBY SHOW at a point when NBC and situation comedies were both in dire straits, the genre was resurrected and became prolific both in prime time and in rerun syndication. There was an explosion of newly signed on and maturing
I’m Just Exercising My (September) 1st Amendment…
There’s only so much social media that even I can find the time to consume and engage with, and I’ll admit that my least visited platform is TikTok. Not merely because I’m clearly not in its generational sweet spot, or the fact that one of the few videos I’ve uploaded was when my friend’s teenage
The World’s Fair(est). Back In Flushing.
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME. Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional coverage of business and technology. When the world literally beats a path to one’s doorstep it’s hard not to possess an outsized amount of pride in one’s home, no
If No One’s Watching The News, Does It Matter If Anyone’s Anchoring?
We’re now a little more than two weeks into the local news apocolypse. At least, that’s what those most immediately affected by the events we mused about earlier this month lamented when the first of Scripps’ local TV stations to wave bye-bye to human anchors took the action which NCS’ Michael P. Hill reported on
Coyote Ugly? Only If You’re Humorless
There’s a darn good reason for you to find the time and funds to take yourself to a movie theater this weekend, and it’s not just because their air conditioners tend to be functioning way better than mine. Because every dime you spend toward supporting the feel-good effort of the summer–and perhaps longer–makes the decision
I’m FURIOUS I Didn’t Get On Its Bandwagon Sooner
It’s said that the road to success is paved with good intentions, but lately I’ve been reluctant and, frankly, too cash-strapped to even get in the car and drive on it. You already know what birthday months do to me and I suspect you’re even more fed up with that sad sack story than I
Shuffle Off, Ruffalo
When I look at Mark Ruffalo’s professional career objectively I net out at giving him a grade of slightly higher than B. He’s been a working actor for nearly four decaades, an accomplishment unto itself. And as Wikipedia dutifully notes, he’s had a pretty decent run of both critical acclaim and more than decent paydays
Goodbye, Dolly
Because of the inordinate amount of sources that I have signed up for breaking alerts with over the years, when it’s about the passing of someone famous I consider the number of them I get in a five-minute period as a key performance indicator of exactly how big a deal the subject was. Yesterday’s news
Maybe If Our Realities Were Better We Wouldn’t Pay Attention To Theirs
Unless you hold a position in Washington or you’re someone who reviews reality television for a living you have more than likely not put yourself through the exercise of enduring perhaps the most transparently grifting and narcissistic series to drop on any platform in a long time. As of this writing, the most-viewed episode of