Monday’s brain is already on vacation

1. Leaving the house at 4:45 in the morning is less scary in the spring and summer. Partially it’s due to the longer hours of daylight — it’s grey-ish out instead of pitch dark. But mostly it’s due to the fact that the birds are chirping and singing. It’s hard to be afraid of The [...]

Thursday, with bonus Madeline Kahn

1. I have resorted to collegiate habits. I wrote out on a piece of paper a three-week calendar, from now until Wiscon, and filled in all the things I need to do between now and then. This always helps me, because I can see that the tasks are accomplishable — as long as I stay [...]

This week’s tv shows

Saturday is the day that I catch up on the previous week’s tv shows, while at work. So yesterday I watched Fringe, 30 Rock, Hellcats, The Vampire Diaries, and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. I’ve been reading the manga series Nana, and just finished volume seven. And on Twitter yesterday it was proposed that Savannah [...]

Fall media thoughts

I’ve been watching some new, or, new-to-me television shows this fall. There were a lot of things that looked promising, and others that didn’t but I tried them anyway, with mixed results. Undercovers. I saw the ad for this show and immediately started rooting for it. Here was a show with African-American leads playing spies! [...]

Hellcats

My favorite new television show of the fall season is the CW’s Hellcats. This show is far, far better than its commercials would lead you to believe. Hellcats stars Aly Michalka (of the Disney stable pop band Aly & A.J., and many, many Disney tweener shows and movies) and Ashley Tisdale (also of the Disney [...]

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