Total Oprah
Speaking of Oprah, Sarah Terez Rosenblum has a Chicago Sun-Times story today about Robyn Okrant, a writer-performer who has been living her life according to Oprah for darn near a year now: “… I have...
View Article‘Good Eats’ on YouTube
Update: Since this post was written, the Good Eats videos referenced below have been pulled from YouTube. However, newer and better copies are now available via GoodEatsComplete. I have written here...
View ArticleDarren Stephens arrested in Chicago (not Darrin Stephens)
Why is there a sudden surge of interest in Darren Stephens today? After all, both Dick York and Dick Sargent passed away back in the ’90s, so it’s unlikely that the Bewitched stars are making big news....
View ArticleSnuggie, Slanket, Heat Surge: My TV monk life
The Great Recession and its effect on our household budget have started producing some bizarre yearnings in me — especially when combined with the influence of our TV set. This began with a video that...
View ArticleTV tonight: Bush farewell speech, new ‘Office’ and ’30 Rock’
The Farewell Speech: President George W. Bush bids us adios tonight at 7:00 Central. As you may have heard, Bush has spent the last couple of weeks tempting historians to confound all witnesses and...
View ArticleOprah Winfrey, crack cocaine, and L. Randolph Cook
The latest blockbuster National Enquirer breaking news exclusive concerns a pair of books called The Wizard of O. Apparently the first volume, My Life with Oprah: The L. Randolph Cook Interviews, is...
View ArticleObama inauguration: Breathtaking images
We’re ditching the commentators on the various networks and watching C-SPAN’s inauguration coverage today on TV. Meanwhile, over on the computer, I am getting blown away by the astounding seven feeds...
View ArticleDeep thought: Happy birthday, Jack Handey!
Jack Handey is a real person, and just to prove it, he got himself born 60 years ago today. Even Wikipedia agrees that “Handey is a real person, not a pen name or a character,” so happy birthday, Mr....
View ArticleRick Santelli, CNBC in hot water on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’
God bless Jon Stewart and the Daily Show researchers and editors for putting CNBC’s accuracy record under the microscope following Rick Santelli‘s anti-bailout rant on the floor of the Chicago...
View ArticleThe power of now: Eckhart Tolle and a Bike Ride on 35W
A baffling practice on public television here in the USA is the way the program schedule gets swapped out whenever fundraising time rolls around. While public radio stations typically interrupt...
View ArticleYouTube’s new ‘Shows’ tab adds TV episodes, streaming movies
I saw this AP story at ChicagoTribune.com this morning: YouTube boosts lineup of full-length movies, TV shows in partnership with some major studios Sure enough, there is a brand-new “Shows” section at...
View ArticleMute Orlando Magic fan, 4, speaks: Ryan Rodriguez loves this game!
I heard this story in the wee hours this morning via ABC’s World News Now. Apparently it also aired on yesterday’s Good Morning America and World News with Charles Gibson: Orlando Magic helps mute boy...
View ArticleStephen Colbert reports from Iraq this week
The Colbert Report should be especially good this week, with Stephen Colbert on location in Iraq, a trip whose exact date and destination had been kept secret until Friday, leading many to ask (and...
View ArticleJustine Henin singing, acting, cooking on reality show
The YouTube video clip above comes via Straight Sets, the NYTimes.com tennis blog. It’s former tennis superstar Justine Henin singing a duet with Belgian balladeer Salvatore Adamo. There was no...
View ArticleAlton Brown diet plan: Weight loss through ‘Good Eats’
Here’s something we watched while my blog was in the shop. It’s the Alton Brown diet plan — the January 4 episode of Good Eats, titled “Live and Let Diet.” ]We had noticed, going back to a recent...
View ArticleGlenn Beck, Eric Massa, and the worst interview ever
The clips included in the clip above really deserve to be enshrined in the Awkwardness Hall of Fame. I’m someone who grew up watching the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon year in and year out. I was tuned in...
View ArticleSuryia the Orangutan: Robitussin commercial with Droid X smartphone
So I’m watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann the other night when I see a commercial which shows an orangutan in a pharmacy aisle using a Droid X smartphone and buying Robitussin® cough medicine....
View ArticleRon Johnson for Senate with no jobs plan?
Ron Johnson, Senate candidate from Wisconsin, is seen in the clip above, from Countdown with Keith Olbermann, addressing the central issue in this year’s election: Jobs, jobs, jobs. What is Ron...
View ArticleRick Steves’ Europe: Bloopers
We have enjoyed Rick Steves and his European tours on public TV for years. We’ve even used a Rick Steves travel guide or two to find our way around France and Italy. Only through social media, however...
View ArticleTV schedule shell games make it hard to follow shows
As a TV viewer, there are few things which irritate me more than the games played with the TV schedule these days. Despite the ridiculous amount of money we pay to a cable company every month — and...
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