When Sports Night was still on the air, I kept seeing TV critics having fits trying to make everyone watch it because it was SO GOOD. And I’d finally think, “Oh, okay, FINE, I’ll watch it!” but then I couldn’t FIND it: I kept ending up accidentally watching ESPN, thinking, “THIS can’t be […]

The past couple weeks of my summer have been dominated by THIS guy: Crazy Frog (sample on Youtube). All the children love him, and I can tolerate him. We got the DVD from Netflix, and now the soundtrack to our lives is Axel F, Pump Up the Jam, and We Are the […]

Looking for something halfway decent to add to your Netflix queue? May I recommend Long Way Round, a 7-episode documentary television series detailing the 19,000-mile motorcycle journey of BFFs Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as they travel through Europe, Asia, fly to Alaska, and continue onward to New York.
If you’re like me you might read […]

Things I neither like nor understand:
1) Anime
2) The game Go
Thing I nevertheless like:
1) Hikaru No Go, an anime television show about the game Go
Paul, who at one time belonged to a club of people who played Go on purpose, started out watching this alone, on his computer. But our computers are […]

I’m glad my sister-in-law told me it took her 5 or 6 episodes to get into Firefly, because I didn’t think I was going to like it at first, either. It is a SPACE WESTERN with WAR FLASHBACKS, and I like neither space nor western nor war.
I gave it 5 or 6 episodes—and now […]