For the first time in years I tuned in this morning to what had once been a television never-miss: “CBS Sunday Morning” with Charles Osgood. I’d been a fan since deep into its days hosted by the great Charles Kuralt. If I wasn’t quite sure why I had strayed away and for so long I …
So Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer got going last night with the first of a two-part, four-hour premiere of the new season of “24,” and man am I glad Jack’s back in town. Sure, I know the program is just one big live-action comic book that can stretch the suspension of my disbelief well beyond its …
Being as I’ve mostly been watching football mostly on the broadcast box this past couple weeks, I’ve been abnormally subjected to the flow of repetitive crapaganda from truck makers who want me to buy their stuff. A meaningless sampling of the most offensive marketing schemes: 1) Chevy’s fauxtriotic “This is your truck” TV campaign backed …
So I lost 50 pounds this year simply by monitoring my caloric intake, exercising and eating healthier. But how does one shed IQ points? Of course that’s operating perhaps under a rash and arrogant assumption that I have a high enough number of them that I can afford to lose some. But for the sake …
Came home from my regular evening bike loop-ride up the L.A. River and through Griffith Park with friends Steve and Alice and found a pot of my baby’s scrumptious pasta and shrimp on the stove my baby comfortably ensconced on the sofa midway through an episode of “My Boys,” a new TBS sitcom on the …
I don’t watch Fox’s “Prison Break,” but I do count myself as a fan of the NBC series “Heroes” and when Susan and I watched Monday’s episode last night it finished with a hard sell about their upcoming “Fall Finale” and reminded me of a recent promo for “Prison Break” that did the same thing …
During the first season of Lost, I gave up only several episodes into it. Man did it open strong and really grab hold of me, but then the show got all heavy into flashback-fever and teasing us with strange monsters that would quickly drop off the scriptwriter’s radar and, well (sorry)… it lost me. Typically …