Tag: television
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The Roast Beef Sandwich…FROM HELL!
I held onto this comment because I wanted to maintain the positivity of Thanksgiving, my second-favorite holiday of the year. Five days later, it’s still such a wild ride that I’d feel horrible not sharing it with you. It is Wednesday evening, the night before Thanksgiving, and my wife has been preparing various foodstuffs for…
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Hellloooooo (Male) Nurse!
Just to be fare to all the readers out there after yesterday’s Julia Stiles pic, I totally have a man-crush on Nathan Fillion. He is, was, and always will be Captain Malcolm Reynolds. My obsession with Firefly is total1 and despite the days where he spams my twitter account trying to make a fad (the…
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His Shadow Stands Over Us
Streaming Netflix over my Xbox (really, it seems that’s the only thing I use my Xbox Live account for any more1 2), I watched a miniseries with Daniel Craig called Archangel. Though I think I may have seen the ending before, the rest of it was quite interesting. Especially the first two episodes. General premise…
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What if Books Were Like TV
Following the recommendation of many, many people, I finally got around to renting the first disc of season 1 of “White Collar” (that’s the USA show that stars Chuck’s Bryce Larkin as a conman working for the feds). I have to say, the pilot really hooked me. It wasn’t as flimsy as I thought it…
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Have Fun Storming the Castle
Current, non-syndicated television runs in 30 or 60 minute time slots. Of those slots, the actual program will run 20-22 minutes or 42-44 minutes respectively. Its this constraint that allows a writer–if he or she so wishes to apply herself–to know the plot, the outcome, and the bad guy (if you’re watching one of the…