I woke up today and listened to Roll the Bones (Rush). Man that's Neal Peart (RIP) at his finest, both lyrically and technically. I love the drums on the whole album. Mostly acoustic drums, a departure for Neal, and his hits and fills are exquisite. The lyrics explore the role of "chance" in our lives. Speaking of chance. I don't specifically remember the first Rush I ever heard, but I know it was high school, in Hub's beat …
Earlier
this afternoon I was watching The Mentalist on Hulu, and Patrick said
to another character, “See you in the funny papers.” I nearly gasped.
Terence Burke used to say that. Thing is, today’s heat and humidity had
me thinking about Terence. “He would love this,” I thought. He really
liked weather like this, it was cray cray. But to be thinking about
Terence and then suddenly hear his favorite way to say “good bye”? See
you in the fu…
When I watch the Celebrity Cruises commercial with the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, I think: What is going on on Celebrity Cruises? That song is about an insane, balls-out acid trip. In the commercial, the woman on the Celebrity Cruise is drifting in and out of consciousness, passing out on a bed, seeing cruise employees appear from out of a cloud. She sniffs a plant at some point and the bartender YANKS it away from her...then puts it…
"This actress shows up in so many shows I like!" I said, watching re-runs of The Finder and Person of Interest ...um...as it turns out I have been enjoying the TV dramatics of two different actresses entirely , whaaaat? According to the imdb, Texas native Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouz to an Iranian dad and Spanish mom, and Swedish actress Mercedes Mason immigrated to the US at 12 and became a citizen in 2016 and she's married…
Me 'n Joey love that one. I can't imagine why.
I hadn't seen The Thing in years. And all these years later, so many of my favorite creators call John Carpenter a big huge major influence, including the Ross and Matt Duffer, the Stranger Things guys. Of COURSE! Dude. D oes anybody else think the two stories dovetail so neatly that the thing in The Thing becomes the stranger things in Stranger Things? "We wanted something in the vein of the classic films we loved growing up," Ross …
Sometimes Lawrence O'Donnell could stand to slow the liberal roll, don't you think? Yeah, you read that right, this is me. No, I haven't been kidnapped. I'm not blogging at gunpoint, although now that I say that, in Trump's America, why can't that be true. Well it's not, not right now. We can work out a code phrase or something later. This is real. The
whole point of being liberal is you've got to be able to say …
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a solid show. It was on during a dark period in my life when every TV show that I loved was getting canceled. I made a list at the time, it's probably in the old blog archives. Studio 60 was Aaron Sorkin's first project post- West Wing , so it had a lot of the Aaron Sorkin players, and the overall look of the show (cameras, lights, titles) was very West Wing . Studio 60 was funny and smart. So of course it …
“Amazing. So after Trump’s public praise of Vladimir Putin, his attorney general’s meetings with Russians, his campaign chairman’s money laundering, his deputy campaign chairman’s tax fraud, his personal fixer’s secret shell company, his national security adviser’s lies to the FBI, his son’s attempt to get dirt from a foreign adversary and his son-in-law’s secret back channels with that adversary, the person who could end up taking down the pres…
You guys, Rose Marie died. I admit that I shed a tear or two tonight. I was way too young to "get" the Dick Van Dyke show when it was in re-runs on TV. But years later I found a connection with it, when I went off to college in New Rochelle. I loved Sally, and I guess she was my first glimpse into "a TV writer," and she was a WOMAN. YES! Man, she was cool. So yeah, I got a little emotional when I heard of this fine funny lady…
Jenny and I are both binge-watching The Originals on Netflix. I called her today to find out where she's up to in the series. I myself have finished all four seasons in record time. I do not recommend pursuing such specious glory. You will rot your brain, plus your eyeballs might fall out the front of your damn skull. It's just that it's hot out, and I am unemployed at the moment. ( Please hire me. ) "Marcel has just taken over th…
Nine minutes and 47 seconds I'll never get back. With this cast, The Ranch had a decent shot at making something new. You've got Sam Elliot and Debra Winger, and it felt right to make it feel like a re-cooked send-up of That 70s Show? Really? Then you don't understand that show was corny and cartoonish for a reason, and it worked. But The Ranch tries an approach that's literally as though Kelso and Hyde reunited, on a ranch...in…
Adam West was my Batman. His was the Batman that I knew first, so he's the one whose visage my mind's eye still summons whenever I hear someone say "Batman." In those days, Batman as a franchise was campy. It was a comic book lifted right from the cartoon pages and performed by people doing very silly things in a very serious manner. Decades before the franchise turned dark, Batman was good wholesome family fun. Just like Roger…
These kicks look like they'll summon the ghost of Mel Torme to sing to me on a dais. # HeLikesWhatIDo # TheseAreJimmysTrainingShoes # 1990sTVReferences # JimmyCouldntJumpAtAllBefore # TheyrePlyometric
Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like Lite Brite, Etch-a-Sketch, and Slinky...a popular (*cheap*) birthday present. Imagine every one of us rug rats fighting over a toy you play with on the stairs . We made our own fun, too. Get a pair of tube socks and you could slide across the linoleum, or shuffle out some sweet static on the shag carpet. I'm …
Oblix Plans to Open in the Former Strega Italiano/Strip by Strega Space in
Boston's Park Plaza Area
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It looks like an upscale restaurant in London is going to be expanding to
Boston.
According to an article in The Boston Sun, Oblix is planning to open in...
2 hours ago
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