The combination of cable television, a greatly curtailed rolodex, and the cooling temperatures leads me to watch the strangest things. I am actually, at heart, a clicker. 30+ years of no cable make me consume tv like a starving person at a Ponderosa, some of this, some of this, some of this- for hours. Lately [...]
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Home and Garden Television
Posted in TV Review, tagged first time home buyers, hgtv, TV Review on October 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
What are you holding onto?
Posted in TV Review, lost, tagged buddhism, g-n-r, hoarders, letting go, TV Review on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One interesting suggestion i read for developing generosity starts off simple: try passing a beloved object from your left hand to your right. Even that tiny transfer can pull your heart if the object is very precious. From there perhaps you can build up to greater acts of generosity. Imagine giving away the most valuable [...]
“You don’t miss sewing or darning your socks, do you?”
Posted in TV Review, cooking, tagged cooking, local food, michael pollan, New York Times, sewing on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Pollan has a piece in this week’s Times Magazine on how people today watch cooking shows instead of actually cooking. Nothing new in there for those of you who follow food politics or who have read his other work- he’s still banging the same drum. He interviews a cynical food behavior researcher named Harry [...]
Simon Schama= Most Dramatic Deadpan Art Historian
Posted in TV Review, museums and art, tagged caravaggio, sunday night channel flipping, tv on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t stop watching. I think it’s probably needlessly overdramatized crap, but the paintings are so awesome.
Juking the Stats
Posted in TV Review, tagged The Wire on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Simon, who created The Wire, is on Bill Moyers tonight- Simon is cynical and truthful. A journalist without a journal. I stopped watching the series when I got to this peaceful seaside town (mid season three) because it felt like wallowing. My former coworkers love the show and identify strongly with it, and I [...]
Special Agent Cooper/ Divination Methods
Posted in TV Review, found, tagged buddhism on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think you can tell by the way I have a blog and am a librarian that I am a huge nerd. And also, since I was raised by hipsters and happened to be entering eighth grade when it came on TV, I was a raging Twin Peaks fan and hosted viewing parties in my [...]
Patrick Mcgoohan
Posted in TV Review on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t watched The Prisoner, please do so. Then we will discuss.
No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain
Posted in TV Review on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So, I have cable now. The Travel channel only has three shows. They are the one where a guy eats the most revolting things he can find and you watch, the one where you watch naked “aboriginals” narrated over, sometimes with white people trying to get them to like them, and Tony Bourdain’s show. I [...]
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