Category Archives: Television

TV Shows we know and love.

I Pity Da Foo Who Watches Dis Show, Sucka!

What I wanted to say in this post, but don’t know if I should, is that Dancing with the Stars is probably my least favorite TV show of all time.  I just forced myself to watch for about 10 minutes, … Continue reading

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A Small Rumination on Television

More TV…I’m watching the F/X biker extravaganza Sons of Anarchy, and “Beast” from “Beauty and the Beast” just called some girl “Sweet Butt.” It’s six minutes into the show, and there’s already been boinking, and cussing, and cop-killing.  I feel … Continue reading

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Monday Night Marathon Post

Everybody now… From first to last…the cheese is never passed. I’m currently watching the wife of former NBA spare Frant Kornet tell me about today’s news.  The Tony Dow Jones Industrial Average ended below 10,000 for the first time since … Continue reading

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Fringe: I Know You’re Out There

Does anyone else have the song “Lunatic Fringe” by 80′s supergroup Red Rider going though their head as they watch the TV show Fringe?  No?  Just me?  Fair enough. lunatic fringe…I know you’re out there. Fringe is like a combination … Continue reading

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Disaster

No, I’m not talking about this: Or even this: Or especially even this: What I’m talking about is me missing The Hills last night.  I wonder: Can I ever catch up?  Will MTV ever replay that episode?  Is in fact … Continue reading

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How Many Bands Have to Fail Before This Stops?

(nothing inappropriate about what’s being sold here.  no sir.) Just now I woke up to the fact that everything MTV tells its audience is a lie.  There’s not a thing on MTV, textual or subtextual, that is true.  For example, … Continue reading

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“That’s a Fact, Jack.”

First, the good news: Somebody in beer distribution woke the heck up and got a good Leinie’s seasonal beer down to Dallas.  Finally, we can have a real Oktoberfest.  I was getting tired of Honey Weiss and Doppel Bock.  Because, … Continue reading

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Justin Bobby is a Cowboy

After a very short battle with cancer, Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright passed away today.  He was 65.  People are commemorating him by saying he “shaped their sound,” which really means that Floyd wouldn’t have been Floyd without the freaky … Continue reading

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Man, I Hate Politics, Part One

Let’s watch the RNC! by Mike Doug Pape I’m trying to watch the RNC tonight, my only free night to watch it this week.  This happens to be the night when all the dudes who lost the GOP race give … Continue reading

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Several Quick Hits Before the Real Fun Starts

If you know me, you know that I’ll just let this thing slide like Jim Gantner if I’m not careful.  This past week, I was placed in a hypersealed box by the good folks at GM, and not allowed to … Continue reading

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