Arts and Entertainment
WSOP Main Event on ESPN Begins Tonight
Will Brunson’s pocket queens hold up against Nguyen’s big slick? Like me, I’m sure you’ll all be glued to the TV for this awesome sporting event. “Starting on August 18th, the Main Event will air every Tuesday night on ESPN. Each of the four starting days will receive its own two hour block of coverage […]
Newsweek Takes On Oprah
As much as we complain in the blogosphere about how the media covers issues, sometimes the media gets things right. The latest issue of Newsweek decides to examine some of the lifestyle advice offered on Oprah Winfrey’s show. The article is titled “Live Your Best Life Ever!” and it highlights some of Oprah’s celebrity guests […]
Nemski’s Music For the Masses: A Mixtape
I’m no Nick Hornby but his affections for football, music and literature are ones that I hold as well. In Hornby’s book High Fidelity, he writes about the art of the mixtape: To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good […]
Scrubs is back
Scrubs is coming back but not on NBC, on ABC Jan 6th. I have no idea if they can keep their chemistry being over ABC. They aren’t exactly known for their comedies. But we shall see… In looking for a comparison to another good sitcom the characters on Scrubs remind me a lot of “Night […]
30 Rock Is Awesome & Other Stuff
Even the reruns that just aired like two weeks ago sparkle like a blanket of fresh snow in the moonlight. Anyway…. NBC keeps teasing a story about Chase Utley’s F-bomb and the FCC, so I googled it and found this: The FCC reports it received 26 complaints from the public about Utley’s language, which was […]
What I’m Reading
Reading is good, it is one of those things more people, like the host of idiots that come over here and try to spin each and every post that points out the irony, hypocrisy, recklessness, and out right bullshit of the GOP and it’s supporters. People like them don’t read books, because they get all […]
What I’m reading…
A Sqyuishy quest to further educate continues… Update 2: Pension Debt is unsecured debt. Like a credit card. Pretty sweet huh? So that money you were promised, gauranteed, poured your blood sweat and tears for, is worth less than the paper it was written on. It is an albatross tied around a companies neck going […]
Reading The Conscience of a Liberal
Putting together Donviti’s reading list was quite fun. It also got me to go though my stack of books that I should be reading. I’ve started Paul Krugman‘s The Conscience of a Liberal over the next few weeks and posting a “review” and possible discussion (depending how many people participate) of it on December 8th. […]
A Recommended Book List
As Donviti begins his train commute next week, what books would you recommend to him to check our from the library to keep him company on the ride every morning and afternoon?
The Who Rocked Philly Tonight
They kicked it off with “Can’t Explain” and just went on to rip it up for two solid hours. The set was unapologietically retro without being nostalgic. Every song had an immediacy. It never felt like…”oh we’ll have to play this, so let’s just get through it.” “My Generation” had an interesting twist. After comlpetely […]
Save The Diamond State Drive-In Theatre
Last night I spent a very nice evening in Felton at the Diamond State Drive-In Theatre. We watched two underrated movies “Space Chimps” (which was very funny) and Eddie Murphy’s “Meet Dave” (which I slept through but my family tells me was good). It was a “Dusk to Dawn” bill which progressed on to some […]
Delaware Liberal Summer Book Club: It’s On
OK, I know some won’t like it, but we are going for Obama’s Audacity of Hope as the first book. We will arrange for a date to get together (real or online) sometime after the 4th of July. In a hat tip to Disbelief, I will commit to have the real meeting (if it happens) […]
You know you are getting old when
You are watching television and here them mention Jerry Garcia. You then turn to your daughter and say, “You know who Jerry Garcia is?” She says, “Yes” Oh thank God, you say to yourself. Just to clarify though, you ask, “Who is he?” “He’s that actor guy” sigh
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