Tag: tv

  • John Oliver skit on a peace negotiation game World of Peacecraft

    The first season of John Oliver’ s new HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is becoming a game-changing news entertainment show. John Oliver is certainly less smug, creepy and bigoted than Bill Maher, the host of a similar news entertainment show also on HBO. John Oliver’s show is also employing social media to […]

  • MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains a nuclear meltdown

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I always like news media that can educate as well as inform. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow explains the technical details of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant with nerd like enthusiasm. Moreover, she does it without the pretentious, nostalgic authority symbolism of Glenn Beck's chalkboard. I […]

  • The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Mosque-Erade

      The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mosque-Erade www.thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:350555 Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party The great absurdity of theopponents of the community center is is the talk about "sensitivity". The same folks who coined the term "politically correct" and related language to justify their unfounded […]

  • South Park censorship controversy: Not Without My Famous

    Last night’s episode of South Park saw the network  censor a great deal of content in a way not intended by the creators. The action suggests that the network was scared of backlash by radicals. It’s nice to Muslim brothers and sisters taking cartoons seriously. If only they would tone it down a little. Let me […]

  • Jon Stewart delivers a scathing smackdown upon Beck

    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Conservative Libertarian www.thedailyshow.com http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:267816 Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform Yesterday’s Daily Show saw Jon Stewart giving Glenn Beck a taste of his own medicine. I wish Jon could have elaborated on the “Li” part of libertarian with examples like […]

  • This week In Dallas Music History: A weekly article series on Dallas Observer Stories

    My latest post for the Observer is up: This week In Dallas Music History: Walker, Texas Ranger Finds A Killer On Baboon’s Tail, Kinda. My first cut included a paragraph on how I assumed this episode was a Walker version of a reliable police show trope, the Quincy Punk. In this trope, our noble protagonist immerses […]

  • Stargate SG1 gets better: Back on the Destiny.

    Last time I talked about Stargate Universe, I vowed to avoid it until it got better. That time has come with the midseason finale titled Judgment. The women now have something important to do, in this case a tribunal for a murdeh on the spacecraft. Leaving Dr. Rush on a planet with a decrepit ship […]

  • No, SG U!: Stargate Universe needs some fixing

    I’ve nearly given up on Stargate Universe. I’m watching the fifth episode, (technically seventh, since the pilot was in three parts). Here’s why my patience is lost with the series. The women are fanservice-like eye candy, and the men are archetypes. Eli –the nerd and analogue to the show’s main demographic–  got relegated to friend […]

  • Favorite music videos

    Aphex Twin — Windowlicker

  • E3 Report 2009

    This is a week late due to studying for the GRE. I missed a whole lot of stuff due to preparing  the GRE: A-Kon, Isis, and E3. Now I’m free and ready to kick Dallass. Microsoft Conference Highlights: Project Natal – How are you supposed to play a FPS with this? I imagine one will […]