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I’ve had a very sad post rolling around in my head for a while now, a post that I just couldn’t make myself write, a post I refused to even speak about. When the second season of Carnivale ended, I was speechless. I turned off the television after the last episode and never […]

This is going to be a good weekend.
Tonight I’ll be seeing The Mars Volta at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, then Sunday I’ll be missing the first episode of the return of The Family Guy so I can see Captured! By Robots at The World Famous Milestone Club.
Unfortunately, I don’t have TiVo so this means I […]

As she retired from Newsday, Laurie Garrett tries to explain the problem with our media and why it must be fixed. Excerpt here, please read the rest of the memo.

The deterioration we experienced at Newsday was hardly unique. All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the […]

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I’ve been watching Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter for a couple months now and damn what a great marketing idea. The show put 16 wannabe UFC fighters in a house without radio or TV for a couple months while they competed as teams in challenges and then fought in order to send someone home […]

Johnny Carson, the quick-witted “Tonight Show” host who became a national institution putting his viewers to bed for 30 years with a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter and heartland charm, died Sunday. He was 79.
…NBC said Carson died of emphysema - a respiratory disease that can be attributed to smoking - at his Malibu home.
My […]

Gizmodo points to an article saying that Apex will support DivX natively. I’ve been a fan of Apex’s dirt cheap DVD players not so much for the price but for the large number of formats it will play. The only thing that was missing was DivX support, so I’m looking forward to […]

The Battle For Ozzfest ends Monday and I am happy (and slightly surprised) to see that Cynder is one of the 2 bands to make it to the finals.
Cynder hails from the wonderful little town of Lexington, NC; the town that also produced Eric, some damn fine BBQ, and that’s about it.
The winner […]

“I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp,” [Jonathan] Klein [chief executive of CNN’s U.S. network] told The Associated Press.
He said all of the cable networks, including CNN, have overdosed on programming devoted to arguing over issues. Klein said he wants more substantive programming that is still compelling.
“I doubt that when […]