Michael Chabon, while beating up Jonathan Franzen: Ooh, you fight like Anne Rice! Of course, the highlight of tonight’s episode was J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, editor of a poetry magazine. 🙂
Category Archives: Television
On Hugh Laurie's SNL
Hugh Laurie, of Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, and House fame, hosted Saturday Night Live tonight. Unfortunately, it wasn’t especially funny. Laurie’s monologue was amusing. The joke he made about being “bottom” in the Royal Shakespeare Company was quite inspired (even if the audience seemed slow on the uptake). The skit based on Most Haunted wasContinue reading “On Hugh Laurie's SNL”
On Television Shows
Shamelessly stolen from Ross and others: What TV show(s) do you find yourself watching the most?Presently, not that many. The only ones I’m building my week around these days are Boston Legal and House. Television, just not that important to me these days. What if any TV shows do you own on DVD?Chittering Cthulhu, thereContinue reading “On Television Shows”
On Remembering Moonbase Alpha
Let us not forget: September 13, 1999 marks the 7-year anniversary of the tragic events at Moonbase Alpha, where all 311 of the base’s inhabitants were lost and presumed killed after terrorists set off a thermonuclear chain reaction on the moon’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2. The resulting catastrophic explosion blasted the Moon out ofContinue reading “On Remembering Moonbase Alpha”
On the Animaniacs DVDs
The Animaniacs DVDs are coming, on July 25th. We’ve known for a while that the release would be in the summer. An exact date is just gravy. I know what I’m buying come July. Call me happy. 🙂
On Doctor Doctor
A completely random search in iTunes made me realize how much I’d love to see Doctor Doctor, the Matt Frewer medical sitcom of the late 80s, released on DVD. I’ve not seen it in years. There’s probably nothing remarkable about the series at all. But for some reason I have fond memories of the showContinue reading “On Doctor Doctor”
On Gumby
Okay, the credits for tonight’s Simpsons may be the most inspired thing I’ve seen in a while. Rolling clay balls! Gumby! Can the rest of the episode match the creativity in seeing Gumby? We shall see.
On Boston Legal DVDs
Boston Legal‘s first season will be released on DVD on May 23rd. Could this mean a release of The Practice might not be too far behind? One can only hope… 🙂
On Sideshow Bob
I watched an episode of The Simpsons tonight–first time I’d done that since I don’t know when. Sideshow Bob, long-time homicidal nemesis of Bart Simpson, turned up. The plot, such as it was, had Homer and the kids travel to Italy, entrusted with picking up an expensive sports car and bringing it back to theContinue reading “On Sideshow Bob”
On Tonight's Boston Legal
If James Spader doesn’t win a third consecutive Best Actor Emmy on the basis on tonight’s episode of Boston Legal there’s no justice in the universe. It’s that simple. Tonight was one of the more dramatic outings for Boston Legal. The partnership selection. The legal wranglings in the case of a cancer drug test. AndContinue reading “On Tonight's Boston Legal”