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YOU'VE BEEN STERANKO'D! (Part II)
(For Part I in my "YOU'VE BEEN STERANKO'D!" series, in which I write about how I'm moderately obsessed with comic book creator Jim Steranko, go here.)As have all reasonable people, I've long since...
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The Walking Dead Chitty Chat Club: Twitter Edition!
I've been taking a break from hosting The Walking Dead Chitty-Chat Club, because... SNORE, right? However! Last night's episode was such a soul-crusher, I figured you guys would need to have a place to...
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My ONE Problem with the Veronica Mars Movie
Have you seen the Veronica Mars movie yet? Well, I LOVED IT. Certainly my expectations were at a reasonable level going in, but as Eric D. Snyder notes in his Mercury review, if you're looking for a...
View ArticlePatton Oswalt Does a Pretty Sweet True Detective
Got time for one more True Detective parody? YES YOU DO—especially when it's Patton Oswalt doing the parodizing! In this funny promo for his upcoming comedy special, Patton not only shows he can do a...
View ArticleYep... This Made That Situation Worse
TV news stations across the country are rightfully reacting with horror to this morning's news of a Seattle KOMO 4 helicopter crashing near the Space Needle, killing two. What follows is a different...
View ArticleNew Mad Men Promo: Up in the Air
Mad Men returns on Sunday, April 13 at 10 pm on AMC for the first seven episodes of its final season (the final seven eps will air in spring of 2015—in the annoying style of Breaking Bad). Anyway,...
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Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal: Side Effects May Include Reduced Spoilerphobia
Hannibal is one of the best television shows - network, cable, or otherwise – of the last 10 years. It’s certainly the most beautifully shot, and yes, that's counting True Detective. In fact, standing...
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Once More, Project Runway Rears Its Head
Are people still attached to the hope that eventually Project Runway will become a legitimate institution in the world of high fashion? No, ha! That would be silly. Mall fashion, maybe. I did hear the...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About MacGruber's Opening Credit Sequence
MacGruber did terribly at the box office, which is some sort of... crime against humanity? Travesty? A thing that makes me really sad since it means we'll probably never get a MacGruber 2? Regardless,...
View Article#Cancel Colbert: The Politics of Being Offended
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video ArchiveA lady person of color wrote this piece about Suey Park, the Twitter activist who called for the...
View ArticleThe Slightly Less Terrible HIMYM Series Finale You Deserve
Sorry you were disappointed in the series finale of How I Met Your Mother, but I agree with the Daily Dot's E.J. Dickson... "it was always terrible."With the possible exception of the occasionally...
View ArticleA Quick Tour of Amazon's New "Fire TV"
Gizmodo has a pretty thorough article today on the new Amazon Fire TV streaming box—which retails for $100 and might finally replace your love for getting neck cricks while watching TV on your laptop....
View ArticleThe First 7 Minutes of Fargo (the TV Show!) (And it's Pretty Great!)
The FX network has been killing it over the past few years with amaze-balls shows such as The Americans, Justified, Louie, American Horror Story, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Shield, and on...
View ArticleGary Busey Gets WEIRD for Amazon Fire TV
Yesterday I informed you about the new Amazon Fire TV streaming box, which may not be the answer to all your television woes, but is a definite improvement over similar devices such Apple TV, Roku, and...
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David Letterman Announces His Retirement
The sad day we all expected has finally arrived. Late night talk show master David Letterman has announced his retirement. From TV Line:The late-night TV vet will hang up his Top Ten lists and such in...
View ArticleCommunity Does G.I. Joe
Get ready to squirt "nostalgia" all up in your underoos, because here's last night's opening of Community—which is a dead ringer parody of the classic G.I. Joe cartoon. Dan Harmon? You truly are a...
View ArticleOn Letterman
Last night's on-air announcement by David Letterman that he'd be retiring sometime in 2015 was as great as I expected it to be, but it also was strange to watch: Some of that was because I was hoping...
View ArticleGreat TV on Sunday! (No, it's NOT Game of Thrones! Sheesh!)
While certainemployees of a certainPortland alternative newsweekly are drooling down the front of their "King Joffrey Rulz!" shirts for the season premiere of Game of Thrones this Sunday—the rest of us...
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I Really Want To Hate Neil DeGrasse Tyson, But It's Not Working
Neil Degrasse Tyson is too prevalent, too universally liked, too smiley. He must be destroyed. I'm not proud of it, but that is how I think, the Law of Contrary Public Opinion. I just got this...
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Game of Thrones Recap: Sexless in Westeros Edition
Game of Thrones is back, and that means that for the duration of the season I’ll be polluting Blogtown with my opinions about swords. Last night’s episode was a season opener, so it was mostly...
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