It’s impossible to overstate the importance of The Simpsons in popular culture.Actually, that’s not strictly true:“If it weren’t for The Simpsons, innocent people throughout America would be stabbed to death.”There, I’ve overstated its importance.Let’s instead say that The Simpsons is one of the most important fictional works of our time. […]
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EJ’s Top 15
It’s hard for me to lump all my stimuli into a single list. Is a good book better than a good movie? Is a song better than a TV show? Are bears better than cheese? I don’t have the ability to toss everything I’ve seen, read, or heard this year […]
View-Do List: Schedule Roasting on an Open Fire
*** New and improved …easier to read due to indentation ! ! ! *** This is another sickly schedule.If you were smart, you did like I did and squirreled away programming to watch during the lean winter months. Like the Bible story about the ant and the grasshopper.Only in this […]
Lost Season Three (dvd)
Before you even remove the wrapper, the actual box for Lost Season Three is already great.On the edge of the front cover is the scrawled phrase “Jacob Loves You”, which is both creepy and kind of funny.On the spine is a previously unseen Dharma logo.It shows what appears to be […]
Well, I’m certainly not going to read! (aka: What to watch during the writers’ strike)
The time we’ve all be dreading is almost here. Pretty soon, the networks are going to run out of original episodes of just about everything and, with a few minor exceptions, the airwaves will soon be flooded with some of the most tired and brainless programming imaginable. (Crowned: The Mother […]
View-Do List: A Fistful of Schedule
It’s Monday morning. Have you thought about what you’ll be watching this week? Worry not. EJ’s on the case. It’s another light schedule, between the traditional holiday lag and the Writer’s Strike (if you like bad news, click the link to Sunday’s strike headline).So obviously, this is an awesome time […]