There’s a good article in Slate about how the TV show The Wire is becoming a common item for professors to assign to college students. Some schools have a whole course dedicated to it. As many of you know, i’m a huge fan of the show and can understand why profs would use it. One [...]
Many of you know of my love of The Wire. You can imagine my excitement when i heard from BroncosRule about the NY Times running a series where a reporter sat down and watched Season 5 of The Wire with real-life gangsgters. Columbia University sociologist, Sudhir Venkatesh, who has a new book “Gang Leader for [...]
i just realized this: Obama’s chief of staff is a guy named Rahm Emanuel. Two interesting facts about him i learned from his Wikipedia entry: He was the inspiration for the character Josh Lyman on Aaron Sorkin‘s The West Wing. My sister would know better but i believe he was pretty cool Rahm’s brother, Ari [...]
I just finished the first season of Mad Men and thought it was great. One thing i wasn’t expecting is how culturally literate it is (NY Times article). During the season premier this year (just watched it) the main character, Don Draper, is reading a book by Frank O’Hara (Meditations in an Emergency). At the [...]
My thoughts on the Top 10. It turns out i don’t need to post my thoughts, but Television Without Pity summed it up perfectly for me: …when Amanda sings, I feel like I’m in a bar; when David Cook sings, I feel like I’m in a club; when Brooke sings, I feel like I’m in [...]
Newspapers are on the way out. My friend Jules has been telling me this for years. I saw two more big pieces of evidence this week. First, i read the fantastic article in Esquire called “A Newspaper Can’t Love You Back” by David Simon, the creator of The Wire. The article is a tribute to [...]
The writing is bad, the characters are more and more unrealistic, but i still love to watch every week. Last night’s episode was decent but not great. This weekend i read that the creator Tim Kring thought the show is going downhill at the beginning of the season. But, like a Man, he’s able to [...]
http://slapcountdown.com/ In last night’s How I Met Your Mother there was a great reference to season 2
I’m about to purchase a new Plasma TV and thought i’d post about the new acroynms that have become my obsession. Let’s start with 1080p. There are 3 types of HDTV’s available today: 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. What do these mean. The numbers refer to the number of lines across the screen, the ‘i’ stands [...]
Like the genius i am, I recently unplugged my Tivo to use the plug for my cell phone charger. Well, to spare you the boring story, i ended up missing a few of my shows. I was pretty bummed. That was until i realized that now the major networks are putting many of their shows [...]
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