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Manlio Rules indeed (the same way Mao did)

October 25, 2006

A few days ago, over on his blog, Manlio threw up a post about NBC’s Friday Night Lights – specifically criticizing how having Coach Taylor wake up his players at midnight and take them out to run sprints up a hill was more hazing than it was coaching (episode summary here). After a few days [...]

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Fire up your Tivos, folks… The Nine (Wed. 10pm on ABC)

October 2, 2006

Since you should be wrapping up the season premiere of Lost this wednesday night, you’ll be in the perfect position to catch the series premiere of The Nine on ABC at 10pm. It’s been getting that special buzz the same was Lost did when that started out. Give it a shot.

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Might as well call this “Science Thursday”

August 24, 2006

This ain’t your momma’s 20/20. This is about the science of extinction, baby! Get psyched! Seriously, everyone, set your DVRs for this one: The world’s top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, considered the foremost living theoretical physicist, describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity. Some can destroy the planet, others have the ability [...]

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30 Days is back!

August 16, 2006

The second season of 30 Days, Morgan Spurlock’s Quantum Leap-meets-documentary-esque show, has started up again. So far this season they’ve had an legally immigrated border patrol officer live with a family of illegal aliens (there has to be a better word for this), a guy who lost his job as a result of outsourcing spend [...]

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You like Lost and procrastinating?

July 6, 2006

Drop this little gem in your RSS Reader: A blog devoted to mysteries (and potential explanations in the Comments sections) from the TV Show, Lost.

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Both Real and Offensive

June 1, 2006

The Onion A.V. blog has a perfect run down of what makes MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 such a maddening and excellent show. Reality television specializes in exploiting the worst aspects of American society, and My Super Sweet 16 has taken it to a new high/low. It really is something to behold, and it feels [...]

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Finally, ABC hears the pleas…

May 17, 2006

… and will no longer intersperse LOST re-runs throughout next season, creating a frustrating weekly guessing game for its viewers. Instead, they will adopt the Prison Break model – 6-7 episodes in a row to start the season, followed by a break around the holidays, then starting up again in January/February and running all the [...]

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Cable Guy in the sky

April 27, 2006

Trying to fix our busted HD feed and and after almost 3 hours and multiple pole climbing, we seem to be in business. It’s honestly like we’ve re-entered the HD world all over again. Last night we got to enjoy the Harbor Prom with Seth, Summer, Marissa and Ryan (oh no he didn’t! sure looks [...]

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