Now that I’m on the subject of British TV, I’ve recently gotten into watching “The Kumars at No. 42,” a wacky satire on chat shows set in the rec room of an East Indian family that live somewhere in British suburbia. The episode with Richard E. Grant (and Michael Parkinson) had me convulsed, but David didn’t really get what was so funny, and I couldn’t explain it. Comedy is haaaard.
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who is Saturday night hit The reviews are good; I hope it shows up on BBC America soon. I’d love to watch Doctor Who again after all these years – I watched almost all of the Tom Baker episodes and quite a few of the Peter Davison ones, long ago and far away in another dimension. All the Doctors are gathered helpfully together here. There used to be a very, very active Chicago contingent of Who fans; I wonder what they’ll make of the new series? I’m subscribed to a local SF mailing list,…
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I’ve got the music we’re singing for Good Friday here at work with me, just looking it over and humming long more or less at the right pitch. And I’ve got chocolate tempting me, though I’m going to try not to eat it until at least noon. David’s home today and I won’t get to see him again until probably 9pm. Last night, I got home from the Maundy Thursday service at… 1020pm or so. And then Saturday night, well it goes to 11. Though we don’t really sing that much louder. Anyway, the piece we’re singing tonight is called…
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We saw the ads for Sin City the other night – this article from Sci Fi Wire makes me interested in seeing it. Some movies adapted from comic books or that have a comic book sensibility are really cool or great (see The Matrix or Spiderman or Dark City). And sometimes comic-book movies just aren’t quite good enough (see or don’t see DareDevil, The Matrix sequels, and so on. (edited to add DVD links)
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UPN released details of the upcoming back-to-back series-ending episodes of its canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, which will air in May. UPN released details of the upcoming back-to-back series-ending episodes of its canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, which will air in May. I have fallen out of the habit of watching Enterprise – even though I think it’s really started to pick up energy and better writing and so on, I just… got bored with the endless Xindi storyline. And also, even though I like Scott Bakula’s work a lot and admire his approach to the character of Archer, I also lost…
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Amazing Race stuff! Yeah! Okay, the recap for last week’s episode brought back searing memories of far too much fly-blown, seared meat, organs and glands. Gah. But it was funny, so go read it. I just can’t quote it here, or I’ll have to go find a charming Argentinian bucket. This week: another very, very short leg. One internal flight, with – AGAIN! – spoon-fed air schedules. There’s never been a season of TAR where the teams didn’t start to do their own airport “work” so late, as far as I know. What’s the dealio? Half the comedy and drama…
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AKMA wonders: If there ever was a story destined to ornament the weekend NPR news quiz, this must be it. Margaret has been sending me snippets (“ ‘Our insides were just bubbling,’ said Darlene Turner”) and updates all morning. She wonders, does Accordion Guy have a line on this one? More to the point, is humorist, WWDTM panelist and blogger Adam Felber even now working on making this story just ridiculous enough to fool a contestant into thinking it’s a ringer during the “fake news” segment? I’m just bubbling inside thinking about it.
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My recent trip gave me a chance to see some actual scrimshaw up close and personal, rather than the sort often seen at Gus’s or Nelson’s blogs. Hey! I’m about to get my copy of that book wot Gus wrote (with the kind assistance of some ghostwriter guy since Gus is a wanted man in Venezuela and several small, independently fiesty Caribbean island nations). Gus thinks they moved up the publication date. Smart of them, since the book has been selling fairly briskly in pre-sales. Pirates of Pensacolaby Keith Thomson Thomas Dunne Books Sales Rank: 30211 Pub Date: 01 April,…
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I’ve found a new music website – Accuradio.com. Ineresting – very configurable webradio. Got there via the rather stupid Windows Media radio tuner. Will probably connect directly since their tuner is way cooler. It’s got gobs of Celtic channels and sub-channels, and it acts like a gigantic CD changer, with nice fast connections to Amazon pages for each CD. I’ll probably use it a lot at work. So far, I’ve heard some great music: The Bold Privateer, by Eliza Carthy Old Blind Dogs A self-released album called “Myxolydian” by Mark Saul The Palace Theater, by Seven Nations Boot Scootin’ Woman,…
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After last week’s kick-ass TAR7 episode, we get this week’s suck-ass TAR7 episode. Although there was much, much, much that was great, well done, well edited, well raced about this week’s entry, a new kind of play has been introduced: “Bend Ze Rules.” Rob and Amber continue in their quest to be the most polarizing team in Race history: once again, half the fans at TWOP and half the people in my office (the show has finally become a workplace hit) thought Rob’s use of an obscure rule to get out of doing an unpleaseant eating Roadblock task was smart…