Archives for the 'TV' Category
Old Breed, New Again
Published on 10 Mar 2010 at 10:28 am.
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Filed under TV, books, history.
In the runup to HBO’s The Pacific launch this weekend, you may want to check out Auburn University’s Eugene B. Sledge Collection collection. Here’s vid of a lecture re same. (nod to Auburn on the photo of Sledge above, taken shortly after Okinawa, aged 21 and about 100 years old. Thanks, Aaron.)
Sledge’s magnificent and heart-wrenching “With [...]
No Dithering Around
Published on 28 Nov 2009 at 9:27 am.
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Filed under Obama, TV.
Decisive presidential action as O leaps into action, orders a full review of how the reality TV crashers managed to take over his party, make him look silly. Politico:
HD Wars
Published on 30 Oct 2009 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under TV, history.
It’s the battle of the HD channels. Smithsonian Channel HD has its own offering for Veterans Day. “Apocalypse: The Second World War.” Good title … WWII was about as close to apocalypse as our world has seen this side of the Black Death … also looks like good viewing, making the usual claims of previously unseen archives-scoured footage. With noted lefty [...]
WWII In HD
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 11:55 am.
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Filed under TV, history, military.
Big History Channel event, two hours a night, Nov. 15-19, “WWII in HD” promises to ”change the way the world sees this defining conflict.” Previews* and details at History.com, where they say they combed the archives for a lot of largely unseen footage and digitally cranked it up to HD standards.
Jon & Octomom Plus 22
Published on 19 Oct 2009 at 10:37 pm.
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Filed under America, TV, moronocy, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
Important tabloid news update … Octomom has a crush on Jon Gosselin:
The Truth May Be … Out There
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 11:59 am.
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Filed under America, TV, UFOs, aircraft, ancient mysteries.
My local radio talk-show pal Michael Graham questions whether its a hoax. How could anyone plan anything that would fly the way that did and attract the kind of attention that did? And what kind of gain could he possibly expect?
I dunno. The guy’s showing all the signs of being a full-throttle crackpot visionary. He claims [...]
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Really Real Reality TV
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 10:41 pm.
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Filed under America, TV.
I’m not a big fan of charging people for emergency services. But when someone accidentally launches a 20-foot balloon he constructed to conduct lighter-than-air commuting research, and having failed to keep track of their six-year-old, report said tyke is aloft, forcing the local international airport to postpone flight operations, military helicopters to be launched and emergency chase vehicles [...]
Late-Night World Turned Upside Down
Published on 2 Oct 2009 at 8:54 am.
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Filed under TV, geezerdom, sex.
My big question, does this mean Bill Clinton is going to start doing monologues? Variety: Letterman admits sex with staffers, reveals extortion attempt.
OK, the David Letterman Top Tens are piling up. Here’s Treacher’s. Here’s mine, posted on Twitter last night while the show was being aired. So I’m claiming the first:
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Rant, Rave, Repeat
Published on 5 Feb 2009 at 11:19 pm.
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Filed under Palestinians, TV.
Two from MEMRI: An Egyptian cleric on the correct way to beat your wife. Meanwhile, Hamas TV scratches another kiddie show character. Assud the Rabbit won’t be down for falafel.* Stop me if you’ve heard either of those ones before. The wife-beating thing pretty much speaks for itself. It’s all about traditional, violent, 7th century family values. I don’t [...]
Celebrate Lifes!
Published on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under America, TV, incompetence, kids, medicine, moms and dads, money, moronocy.
All 14 of them. That’s how many the heart-warming miracle octuplet mom has brought into the world, with no dad in sight! Because six wasn’t enough, even for a woman in bankruptcy living at home with mom and dad. LA Times:
WGBH Ayers Xmas Special
Published on 4 Dec 2008 at 11:20 am.
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Filed under TV, commies.
Interesting News Items has the scoop, so real it could be true. Except if Boston’s public TV powerhouse was doing it, it would be “Kwanzaa with Bill and Jerry.”
Malkin with an Ayers update that apparently isn’t a spoof, but looks like one. FSU studnet govt votes $5,000 to bring Bill to campus, while community organizers in Illinois [...]
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The Truman Syndrome
Published on 25 Nov 2008 at 9:52 pm.
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Filed under Greenness, TV, culture, medicine.
Beats the heck out of thinking the CIA is monitoring your thoughts. Or George Bush is erasing your civil rights. The new paranoia is the delusion that your life is one big reality TV show. UK Telegraph:
“It’s a Campaign About Nothing!”
Published on 14 Mar 2008 at 10:01 am.
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Filed under TV, pols.
Puffy shirt did a cameo but is back home in North Carolina now. Nader as Kramer? Power, Ferraro vie for the blackballed Elaine role. No soup for you!
Idle riffing off American Digest’s inspired seinfelding the Dem race.
