Tag Archives: TV

From Happy Meals to Sarah Palin; The Fast Food of Politics

Posted on November 23, 2010 by admin

And somehow, somehow, we are actually being made to fight for the right of multinational corporations to peddle crappy food to our children by offering them a toy. Continue reading →

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Why I Hate Facebook

Posted on April 28, 2010 by admin

Okay, okay, I can’t even keep up the pretense: I don’t hate Facebook. At all.  In fact, I love Facebook. Imagine this: all of the people in your life, past and present, available to you at the touch of a … Continue reading →

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Are Moms Really That Busy?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by admin

Yesterday, for the first time ever, I watched the Dr. Phil show.  No, I haven’t been living in a cave; it seems I’ve always known about Dr. Phil, it’s just that the TV here is, 99% of the time, switched … Continue reading →

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Max and Ruby: A Rant

Posted on February 17, 2010 by admin

Once in a while, when Max and Ruby are playing upstairs in the house, we are treated to the sight of a closed bedroom door between Max’s room and Ruby’s room. It is tantalizing, that closed door. I get the almost palpable sense that Max and Ruby’s parents are behind it, and I have to wonder, at this point………………meth lab? Continue reading →

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Why I Love Yo Gabba Gabba

Posted on December 28, 2009 by admin

Let’s get this straight: I am not a fan of kid’s TV programming.  Through the years, I have had friends who thought that Pokemon and the Powerpuff Girls were fantastic, and the Power Rangers and Dragon Ball Z were awesome … Continue reading →

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Why I love Hung

Posted on September 16, 2009 by admin

“I used to have a family.  I used to have a wife, kids, a house, a job.  Now I have my dick.  A dick and a dream.  If that’s not the American way, I don’t know what is”. — Ray … Continue reading →

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Top Chef Masters Finale

Posted on August 25, 2009 by admin

For me, watching it was agony and ecstasy — Ecstasy at the perfect challenge for the final three chefs: An autobiographical meal. Wow. For these chefs, this was truly the perfect device for them to tell the story of their lives and careers and relationship with food. Watching all three meet this challenge was better tv than an entire season of Top Chef. I was positively glued to the TV. Continue reading →

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Why I love Nurse Jackie

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

Maybe the cognitive dissonace begins when we think of the ideal here….the “saint” portion of the picture. The warm, caring nurse who does everything in her power to assist, as best she is able, the unfortunate souls who end up in the emergency room. At once maternal, tough, nonjudgmental. Now turn this ideal inside out. From Jackie’s eyes: chaos, neverending crises, death, alternately smug and detached doctors, the trenches of a broken system. And it’s her job to hoist up her end of the mast. Is it any wonder, then, that in order to actually perform well in this untenable situation, that she needs a enough drugs to kill a small horse? Continue reading →

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