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Here’s the Fall TV (mostly) SF menu: Monday A haunting footnote to my favorite-movie-I-can’t-find. Calculated Risk: Maricopa: Do It For the Children One of the mornings’ obligatory questions seems to be about how the Clinton campaign will deal with the effect of the two new biographical books. The question seems to misunderstand how effective a book can be the current media world. Ultimately the books that the Media remembers are the books the Media covers. Most of [...] Why is ABC calling the first episode of new series Traveler a “sneak preview” followed by the “series premiere”? OK, I get it… According to IMDB, Pilot aired on May 10, I missed it. This is the regular time weekly start, aka series premiere with a repeat of the pilot episode in front. D’oh…Hard to [...] An AARP commercial using The Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” – (March 2, 1979 #29 UK) powered by performancing firefox Watching the Rose Parade I feel like I’m being captivated by the train wreck that is America. The theme in this year of torture, secret prisons, illegal surveilance and the end of habeus corpus is “Our Good Nature.” The opening ceremony featured the B-2 Stealth Bomber! Coupled with the spectacularly, even surreally inept commentary and [...] There is no difference in quality of information inherent between, say the internet and print simply as a medium. All information must be evaluated dynamically and critically. Information becomes meme because of its contribution to a story rather than any possible external measure of truth. We need to know the history and sources of the [...] Watching the first season of Doctor Who the second time through on SciFi, the biggest surprise to me has been how conventional (within the series conventions of Whoville) the episodes are. The conventionality is primarily structural. Episode opens in strange time/place, a couple of characters are introduced, a dramatic event implies a much broader strangeness, [...] A detailed and accurate primer for selling to used book stores (in St. Paul area, but pretty universal. [from the Star-Tribune] Did you know? Wonderful note in a slashdot comment: Slashdot | Solving the Home Library Problem? |
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