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Posts Tagged ‘tv’

Killing my Idols

In an attempt to further understand the writing phenomenon of Joss Whedon, I have decided to attempt to watch the entire run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, dear reader, I am serious. So far, I’ve made it one whole episode and was so overcome with feeling, that I had to write about the experience.
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Battlestar Galactica in Retrospect

Like most other scifi nerds I know, I’ve been enthralled with Ron Moore and team’s reimagining of the classic tv show. An amazing cast and some of the best writing on tv and film surpassing typical genre fiction have made this an unforgettable experience. Now that they’ve finally wrapped it up, I have a few [...]

The Wire

The one good thing that’s come out of the writer’s strike is that I’ve been watching a lot of canned video lately that I might not have otherwise watched. These are shows that have been on my list for awhile but due to the constant stream of “fresh television” haven’t had time to get into them.

PowerMac repo

No, I am not talking about the Repo Man coming into my house and taking away my aging PowerMac G5 (aka “hitomi”). Nope, I’ve repUrposed the machine as a sort of bedroom home-entertainment hub. Disconnected from my command center, I moved it upstairs and hooked it up to the 32″ Toshiba LCD screen and NAD [...]