Mental Floss has run another of its famous quizzes, which they’ve entitled CHARACTER ASSASINATION.  In this, you match the cause of death to the TV character it happened to. There’s twelve slots. The first three characters: Sgt. Phil Esterhaus - Hill Street Blues, Susan Biddle Ross - Seinfeld, and Maude Flanders, The Simpsons. First three deaths: Plane crash [...]

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In todays show: The Cavemen sitcom is coming next week, and I hope they run that funny Tina Fey commercial during it… we observe a moment of silence for Marcel Marceau… and in this week’s commentary, we ask – must EVERYTHING be made into [...]

Halo 3: It’s a phenomenon. It’s a virus. I work with a guy who bought Halo 3 yesterday morning and today, he’s not there: he has been struck with a mysterious illness. I expect I’ll see him tomorrow, glassy-eyed, twitchy, and with a mild case of carpel-tunnel syndrome.
In the world of motion pictures, they love [...]

Because there doesn’t NEED to be. This just in from the Hollywood Reporter:
Touting “the biggest entertainment launch in history,” Microsoft Wednesday announced that sales of the video game “Halo 3″ brought in an estimated $170 million during its first 24 hours on store shelves, making it the biggest one-day launch ever in the U.S. marketplace.

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Just a quick note: I’m going to be knocking around the Podcast Expo in Ontario California this weekend. If you’re in the area, I’ll be there most of Saturday. There is a picture of me in all the podcast postings, look at it and then you can spot me on the convention floor, and we’ll [...]

ALICIA SILVERSTONE POSES NUDE FOR PETA VEGETARIAN ADS
Just to prove that they’re not against ALL kinds of flesh.
OWEN WILSON REPLACED ON COMEDY WITH MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Wilson to star in EDTV II.
DAN RATHER SUES CBS OVER FIRING
Promises to be very careful in producing corroborating documents.
O.J. SIMPSON RELEASED FROM LAS VEGAS JAIL
Vows to find, and kill, real [...]

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In todays show: You may not know this, but the Emmys were given out last weekend… what has Steven Spielberg done for you lately… and in this week’s commentary, I take the new Showtime series Californication apart. All this and Ryan Seacrest struggles to [...]

A couple of weeks ago I talked about how I’m surviving without cable - it involves essentially stealing programs that I’m supposed to be paying for. One of them is Showtime’s CALIFORNICATION. Featuring the low-key charisma of David Duchovney, CALIFORNICATION is a half-hour serial dramady about a novelist and screenwriter named Hank Moody who struggles [...]

By now everybody has seen the footage of that kid getting tasered at the University of Florida during a Q and A with John Kerry. I will not sully this fine blogspace with a link to it– Just Google “don’t taser me, bro” and you’ll be watching it in no time.
By accounts given by police, [...]

I was at a cousin’s wedding this last weekend in Idaho. It was in Priest Lake, Idaho, the most fashionable part of Idaho, apparently. I had been tapped to videotape the wedding– As anyone who runs a video company will tell you, being asked to cover weddings is a regular occupational hazard.
I was getting some [...]