Moving On Up

Today, my first CHUD post is up.  In honor of now blogging in two places on the web, the inaugural subject matter is the identity-eroding post-modern dissolution that seems inextricably linked to the unleashing of human potential through technological progress. But in an optimistic way.
Going forward, nothing much will change about the blogging pattern around [...]

The Lost Island & the 5th Dimension

This started as a review of “He’s Our You” but quickly drowned in a vat of crazy sauce.  Enjoy!
Tonight marked a definitive return to the classic Lost formula, and with that great cliffhanger, the show dropped the central issue of Season 5 directly into the plot: the impossibility of a time paradox in a deterministic [...]

We’ll Always Have Caprica…

I may not have watched every episode or ever written about it before, but today I’ll eulogize Battlestar Galactica as great sci-fi television.  Was the ending problematic? To say the least.  Was the final scene pretty frakkin’ dumb?  Yup.  Was the show an amazing blend of 24, Lost, and Star Trek, intelligently exploring issues of [...]

Toying with Dollhouse

On Friday, Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse aired what he and star Eliza Dushkhu had been touting as a “gamechanging” episode.  The hype was double-edged beyond the unusual PR strategy of admitting the first third of your 13-episode network order was really just exhibition games, though — it was airing against the series finale of Battlestar Galactica [...]

White Lights v the World’s Largest Pizza

This past fall, I shot hours and hours of footage of my friends’ band.  These three-and-a-half minutes are the final result:

30 Rock, “The Bubble” Review

I feel like the longer I write these weekly blurbs, the less I have to say about any given episode. Tonight’s episode, for example, was funny.  Insightful!
No, there’s more to say than that at least.  Jenna continues to be the weakest character to regularly get a plotline of her own, for example.  Her bit tonight [...]

The Office “New Boss” Review

Well I certainly wasn’t expecting that ending.  I dd figure that Idris Elba’s character would eventually lead to Michael leaving the company, but I didn’t think it would escalate so quickly, expecting his departure to be closer to (or take place during) the season finale, and possibly be a firing, so as to shake the [...]

LOST, “Namaste” Review

You know you’re a good con man when exposing your lies might threaten the space-time continuum. And for that reason, everything in this episode was imbued with a sort of surreal tension as all of the 1977 characters were confronted with mind-boggling new circumstances that throw into question their existing plans. I’m more convinced than [...]

Two Things About Deadwood

1) Watch out because this might be perceived as a spoiler, but Season 3 of Deadwood is basically There Will Be Blood as a TV show, with George Hearst as Daniel Plainview and gold in place of oil. The third season of Deadwood came first, and I love There Will Be Blood, but it’s also [...]

Capital Games Tax

With Prezbama proposing changes that would increase tax burdens on the wealthiest Americans, there’s been a lot of talk lately about elites “going Galt,” an Atlas Shrugged reference. As I’ve said in previous posts, I found a lot of value in Atlas Shrugged, but this idea — that the wealthy should go on strike in [...]