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Category Archives: TV

February 3, 2014 Not So Super

(Skipping what would normally be a “Music Monday” to be topical. Sorry if this messes up all your plans.) I’m a guy who doesn’t sports much. I mean that in the sense that I don’t play any in real life (except some softball occasionally) and I don’t engage much in the culture of sports.  I […]

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December 19, 2013 Good Things in Bad Stuff: Star Wars Holiday Special

Welcome to the thing where I try to find good things in one of the worst things ever put to film (allegedly). I’ve always kind of wanted to see this so I figured this was the year to do it.  I invited a bunch of people to watch it with me, but only two others […]

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December 16, 2013 Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular

There are few people my age, I wager, who didn’t love John Denver’s Christmas special with The Muppets. According to Wikipedia, it aired in 1979 and isn’t available on home video of any sort, which I think is a travesty of national proportions. However, the fact that most of us can remember the “FIVE. GOLD. […]

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November 12, 2013 Tuesday 10: Time Travelers

Time travel stories are the best and the worst. It’s great to go back and fiddle with things, or see things through a modern eye, or try to invest in the stock market before Jean-Claude Van Damme comes back and arrests you. But it’s terrible to create time paradoxes that end up swallowing the universe as […]

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November 8, 2013 Transporters

I’m traveling this weekend and conservative estimates put me at being in a car for around 18.5 hours over the span of around 52 hours. Three to four of those hours will be spent in, around, and through Chicago. Just about the only thing I dislike more than driving is driving through Chicago. Too much […]

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