Category Archives: TV

Race 2012: The documentary gave me a different view of my America

Posted on by November 14, 2012

  • Racial debate in this country is a convenient excuse to not talk about class.
  • The Republican Party is currently white and the power-holders are white, but they need to reach out to the future voters, who increasingly are brown.
  • The Democratic Party only talks about race in terms or racial conservatism or racial moderation. It’s never about racial liberalism, because that means an assault on white priviledge

 

Powerful statements, right? Those and more were made during a recently aired documentary on PBS, called: Race … Read more ...

Game of Thrones: Unexpectedly Stark and Addictive

Posted on by June 4, 2012

It all started when I was folding laundry in Norway. Mind you, I *hate* folding laundry, hate it. I have to watch TV while doing it or I’ll die from boredom. So flipping through channels, I stumbled across Lord of The Rings. Or so I thought.

Boromir was there and I kept waiting for Frodo, Sam and the rest of the gang to show up, but they never did. Instead there were these other characters, these twisted characters. One blond jerk told his sister … Read more ...

Guest Blogger Talks Kim Kardashian & The Fairytale Marriage Myth

Posted on by November 4, 2011

*Guest blogger The Defiant Housewife talks about Kimmy K and the belief of a fairytale marriage.

Credit: Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com

OK. I’ll admit it. I watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians. And Khloe and Lamar. And Kourtney and Khloe take Miami. And I can’t forget about Kourtney and Kim Take New York. I know that half the world finds this family annoying as hell. I just find them entertaining.

They are hilarious and I love their clothes. I also think Kris Jenner is a f$&*#@% marketing … Read more ...

News of Bin Laden’s Death Brings Another Defining Moment for Twitter

Posted on by May 2, 2011

It looks like we’ve got another “Where Were You When…” moment. Where were you when you heard Osama Bin Laden had been killed. For millions of us, the answer is: Twitter.

The micro-blogging site had a defining moment yesterday. First there were a few Tweets that President Obama was set to make an announcement and some wondered what it was about and others complained it was going to interrupt their TV watching plans.

When it became clear how rare this announcement was to be, the … Read more ...

A Farewell To Old Friends and Their Twisted Lives

Posted on by April 17, 2011

When I first heard the news I thought it was one of those bad Twitter rumors. You know, like the kind that killed off Sinbad, Jackie Chan and Morgan Freeman.

But alas it was true. Two suburbs of Philadelphia were going to close their fictional gates: Llanview and Pine Valley. ABC announced that it was ending two of its soap operas, All My Children will be done in January and One Life To Live is over come September.

I grew up on these soaps and … Read more ...