Lost, “The Life & Death of Jeremy Bentham” Review

This review is pretty late because I wasn’t sure how much I had to say about this great episode, aside from heaping more praise on the always praise-worthy Terry O’Quinn. Then I got over it, so here’s some stone-cold theorizing about Ben, Locke, Widmore, and the nature of Island leadership. GO!
Like last week’s Jack-centric outing, [...]

30 Rock, “Larry King” Review

Yes! There may have been funnier episodes this season, but this is exactly the kind of use of the writers’ room that has been missing from the show lately, and for that I am grateful.  When Pete reminded Liz & Tracy not to forget a plug for TGS I got a sudden sense of meta [...]

Tuesday: A Day That Some Stuff Happened

Random roundup:
* My real-time media experience of Prezbama’s not-technically-called-the-State-of-the-Union address to Congress will be via whatever people are twittering tonight, because I’ll be at a bar for a friend’s birthday.  These circumstances make it simultaneously easier and harder to play the first official Obama SOTU drinking game, but for anybody planning on listening to depressing [...]

California Gets Back in the Game

Well what do you know– yesterday I write a post about the odds of legalizing weed, and today California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduces a legalization bill in the state legislature: the system works!
That’s right, Ammiano proposes lifting all bans and penalties on the growing, buying, selling, trafficking, possessing, and smoking of marijuana, THC compounds, and [...]

Oscar Liveblog

All right, I have a bunch of leftover beer and nowhere to go, which means I’m going to snark on the Oscars for the rest of the afternoon. For expediency’s sake, I’ll be doing it on Twitter, so I added my twitter feed to the site– it’s on the right beneath the blogroll. [...]

The Realities of Legalizing It

Pot advocates are all lighting up to the idea that in today’s wintry economic climate and with this administration, they might dare Hope (Lobby) for a Change in marijuana policy, justified on the basis of new tax revenues and lower drug war expenses; what would a world with legal pot look like, and how unlikely [...]

Sunday Political Football

Obama’s making budget announcements this week with projections up to the end of his term in 2013; will he peel off Republicans votes this time or will they just keep coming to his house to drink his liquor and eat the cookies at his business meetings?

I haven’t blogged any politics since the election, really, but [...]

LOST, “316″ Review

That DHARMA van is parked outside where I work today.  Later this afternoon I will be handcuffed and forced onto a trans-Pacific flight. Maybe. Probably.  For the purposes of an easy breezy review, bullet points up top and the in-depth analysis/speculation tucked quietly below the fold.
*I don’t know why I enjoy this as much as [...]

The Big Orange Couch

“The Adventures of Pete & Pete,” “The Wire,” and the definitive connection between my life lessons and big orange couches.

Reasons to Embrace Friday the 13th

Because it’s your birthday.