tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313 Arthur D. Hlavaty Arthur D. Hlavaty 2020-01-29T10:22:32Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2381064 2020-01-29T10:22:32Z 2020-01-29T10:22:32Z public 1 Reality TV would be awful even if it hadn’t given us Trump. <a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/01/so-you-think-you-can-be-a-real.html">Charlie Stross</a> suggests ways to make it worse.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2381064" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2300563 2019-07-06T10:10:24Z 2019-07-06T10:10:24Z public 2 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/chester-pierce-the-forgotten-tale-of-how-a-black-psychiatrist-helped-make-sesame-street">How a black psychiatrist helped make <i>Sesame Street</i></a> [Daily Beast]<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/">Metafilter</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2300563" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:2097359 2018-02-27T11:04:51Z 2018-02-27T11:04:51Z public 0 As <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/why-lisa-simpson-matters?">Ted Cruz</a> said, the Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson, and the Republicans are the party of the rest of the family. He might have added, especially Homer, the stupidest and meanest.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/">Metafilter</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=2097359" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1970747 2017-07-21T15:35:45Z 2017-07-21T15:35:45Z public 0 <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/woman-explaining-things/">Sarah Gailey</a> on the new Doctor<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1970747" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1852590 2017-01-16T12:37:43Z 2017-01-16T12:38:08Z public 0 <a href="http://newsthump.com/2017/01/16/missing-persons-case-opened-after-sherlock-writer-vanishes-up-his-own-arse/">The Sherlock mystery</a><br /><br />Thanx to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/'><b>andrewducker</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1852590" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1681697 2016-05-04T10:30:47Z 2016-05-04T10:30:47Z public 0 Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury discuss <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/78834/what-kurt-vonnegut-and-ray-bradbury-thought-about-television">television</a>.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://file770.com//">File 770</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1681697" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1646057 2016-03-05T16:36:03Z 2016-03-05T16:36:03Z public 1 <a href="https://www.change.org/p/republican-party-make-jerry-springer-the-host-of-the-next-republican-debate"> Make Jerry Springer the host of the next Republican Debate.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1646057" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1194762 2014-04-03T15:46:39Z 2014-04-03T15:46:39Z public 0 I'll get the bad news out of the way first. Saul Austerlitz's <i>Sitcom</i> (a history thereof) does not devote a chapter to <i>The Addams Family</i>; in fact it mentions the show only once, in a parenthetical, not distinguishing it from *feh* <i>The Munsters</i>.<br /><br />Otherwise, it's good, tracing 24 other shows, with particular attention to cross-reference and self-reference. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/04/07/140407crat_atlarge_nussbaum"><i>The New Yorker</i></a> discusses the book and how <i>All in the Family</i> changed things by complicating our reaction to the characters. When <i>All in the Family</i> came out, Old Leftist John Leonard hated it because it acted as if the white working class were full of people stupid enough to take it seriously and root for Archie, which is what happened.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1194762" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:382623 2010-10-29T10:32:06Z 2010-10-29T10:32:06Z public 0 Everyone remembers Rocky & Bullwinkle. Gina Barreca and I remember <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/remembering-a-small-and-furry-knights-templar/28118">Crusader Rabbit</a>.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/">Chronicle</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=382623" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments