Tag Archives: #tv

Anonymous

Posted on January 14, 2021 by d4vid

If I were Lawful Evil, I would write a tome debunking the QAnon connections with the Star Wars mythology and, thus, cement the QAnon connections with the Star Wars mythology.

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Foster

Posted on July 28, 2020 by d4vid

Wait, wait, wait.  David Wallace on The Office was named after David Foster Wallace?

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Voltron

Posted on March 12, 2020 by d4vid

“We’ve experienced parts of this before, just never all at once. As others noted, it’s like the Spanish flu of 1918 and the stock market crash of 1929 at the same time, but overseen by Harding’s total incompetence plus Nixon’s … Continue reading →

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Powerless

Posted on October 6, 2019 by d4vid

Rewatching “Veep” and “The Thick of It”, I think I struck on the aspects of the seasons I like which are absent in the seasons I don’t like nearly as much.  Early on, both shows are about people supposedly in … Continue reading →

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Syzygy

Posted on April 18, 2019 by d4vid

Every so often, things align perfectly. NBC’s Thursday night schedule for the 2009-2010 television season was a Golden Age of comedy.  Community, Parks and Rec, The Office, and 30 Rock were all on the air, back to back. Season 1 … Continue reading →

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Cog

Posted on April 17, 2019 by d4vid
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Essence

Posted on April 11, 2019 by d4vid

Introversion aside, I’ve tried to be judicious with how much time I’ve spent around actors.  Which may be why I had never heard of Sam Christensen until Dan Harmon made a couple of passing references to Christensen’s concept of an actor’s … Continue reading →

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Legacy

Posted on April 2, 2019 by d4vid

As I wade through two decades of legacy code at work, I’m constantly reminded of two things: The Homer quote above and the madness-inducing Book from Neal Stephenson‘s Anathem.

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Doctor

Posted on March 20, 2019 by d4vid

I stumbled on these strange but lovely Chinese Dr. Who posters. Apparently, the Chinese title is 神秘博士 (Shénmì Bóshì) which translates to something like “Mysterious Doctor”!

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Watching

Posted on March 19, 2019 by d4vid

Sometimes I feel like the only thing to do is stay on top of what’s happening in the world by watching a huge bank of video monitors like Ozymandias in Watchmen.

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Mad

Posted on March 10, 2019 by d4vid

My friend Debbie & I went to see a stage adaptation of Network on Broadway starring Bryan Cranston (in the Peter Finch role) and Tony Goldwyn (in the William Holden role.)  Only afterward did I remember that those two had already … Continue reading →

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Holy

Posted on February 24, 2019 by d4vid

I used to refer to Academy Awards night as High Holy Day (although it’s lost most of its luster for me over the years.)  Thinking back to where I’ve watched the Oscars has been like a roadmap of the last … Continue reading →

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Long

Posted on February 24, 2019 by d4vid

I remember loving this song when it first appeared in Season 2 of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” but it has been haunting me ever since hearing it again in the end credits of the series finale when it moved me to … Continue reading →

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Extrication

Posted on February 7, 2019 by d4vid

Reporter Kashmir Hill has written a fascinating series of articles called “Goodbye Big Five” (plus a technical follow-up with gory details) about systematically trying to block big tech companies from her family’s life, a week at a time. Week 1: Amazon … Continue reading →

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Dilated

Posted on January 2, 2019 by d4vid

My brilliant friend Holly had mentioned that Ninefox Gambit, the first book in Yoon Ha Lee‘s Machineries of Empire trilogy, had “cracked [her] head open in a good way” which made me want to read it immediately. By the end of the … Continue reading →

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