I had never watched Chad Vader until tonight. My friends did and kept telling me it was hilarious or whatever. One of my (many) cousins plays Clarissa. Just found that out. Tres bizarre. How’s my day been? Well… you can take that as a rough indicator of how my day has been. And I started [...]

… and I’m halfway through the first season of Firefly. Looking to download the entirety of Jericho soon. Loves me some quickly canceled libertarian-themed television. I’m also going to check out the first few episodes of Lost, after so many people raving to me about it. Television.

The Public, Media and The First Amendment: Michael Grant at The Moderate Voice takes it on: In 35 years of newspapering and teaching, I developed a quiet amusement over the general public’s almost total ignorance of how the news media does its job. Then, last year, I received the following email from a reader, one [...]

I’m working my way into season 3 of Star Trek: TNG and episode 4 (Who Watches the Watchers) brought before my eyes, the acting juggernaut Ray Wise. A quick IMDb search confirmed my suspicions. Incidentally, the episode is aggressively anti-religious in a Richard Dawkins sort of way. Those wild eyes and oratory finesse captivate me [...]

In episode 21, season 2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data mentions that one of Riker’s previous duty stations was the Potemkin; an obvious allusion to the Battleship Potemkin, and quite an amusing one at that.

The first minute or is the relevant bit: it’s a strong case for the IPA, yo. I’ll be on to season two next week.

Star Trek – The Next Generation makes me profoundly happy for some bizarre reason. I suppose it is the unabashed idealism; you just don’t see that anymore. The socialist tendencies that abound throughout it don’t bother me, because I realize it’s just fiction. (The obvious authoritarian themes in JRR Tolkien’s work don’t bother me either.) [...]

I’m about to finish the second season of Twin Peaks, and then watch Fire Walk With Me. I will have nothing left to watch besides the random flick and Mythbusters. I don’t watch television regularly unless something catches my attention, which happens about as often as you might imagine. More recent shows that caught my [...]