Welcome! We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled Moments of Joy for this special presentation – the First Annual Spunky Awards! We’re looking back at the most notable shows, events, characters, performers, and fruit-based injuries of 2010. So if you wouldn’t mind helping us roll out the red carpet, we’ve got a […]
Mixed Beans
Kaleidoscopic Raygun: Conan Returns
About 3-minutes into last nights new TBS late-night talk show, I had this strange feeling Conan O’Brien was fighting back a very strong urge to walk off camera like he usually does for comedic purposes, but for good this time. There was an uneasy awkwardness to his opening monologue, to […]
Kaleidoscopic Raygun: Voter Fatigue
Election Day is tomorrow and if you can take “Politics” out of it, you have to admit …the entire event and the weeks and months leading up to it are more entertaining than almost anything offered on reality TV. There are good-guys and villains, contrived plots, eliminations, memorable quotes and […]
TV’s Greatest Restaurants – A Handy Guide
It’s happened to all of us – you tune into your favorite show and suddenly you’re hungry. There’s a proud tradition of TV restaurants, and we often find ourselves wondering if the chicken at Mr. Cluck’s is any good or whether Breadsticks lives up to its reputation. So Myndi and […]
The Crowded Snowglobe
A couple of weeks ago, Myndi mentioned the controversial St. Elsewhere finale in our “Moments of Joy” column. You know, where the entire series turned out to be in the mind of autistic Tommy Westphall, as he stared into a snowglobe. Some people love this finale, some hate it, and […]
What’s Happened to Rescue Me?
I thought it was odd that Rescue Me didn’t make a lot of summer preview round ups. How does an original drama with a star of Denis Leary’s caliber (not to mention the stellar supporting cast) going into its sixth season not merit inclusion from Entertainment Weekly, for example? The […]