Archive for the ‘picture box’ Category

shows that are over, and shows that are actually over

(I think I wrote this on Monday night/Tuesday morning. That’d make sense, as much as any of it does.)
This Cubs losing streak is costing me sleep. This is not some figurative whine about the badness of the last week and a half, this is a literally “I’m unable to go fall asleep after losses.” Like, [...]

NUMB3RS 5×9: Conspiracy Theory

Not that I didn’t already know NUMB3RS and baseball only produced insanity, but when watching seeing this week’s episode

that’s clearly wrong. To be fair, there’s actually a loud siren that goes off in the houses of any interested in baseball statistics when anyone says “well, obviously Jeter’s better”, but those numbers don’t make any sense. [...]

that blew

I spent the last 12 minutes of Burn Notice wondering if my TiVo had goofed, and was only grabbing the first hour of a two part final. There was surely not enough time resolve everything, which was right – instead of doing any of that, everything just went kaBOOM, just leaving enough time for “see [...]

the Mole: 5×3

I think Ali’s the Mole. It’s a slightly educated, mostly gut feeling.
FAIL! I’ve got no idea now. At least Bobby was someone else’s pick.
Whoever lays out the games was pretty dead on when they figured they’d need half naked people by episode 3 for ratings purposes.

the Mole: 5×2

I got talked into watching this show, again, but of course the person who did isn’t returning my voice mails. It’s gotta go somewhere, here’s good enough.
People who obviously aren’t the Mole and are easy to eliminate
- Paul (way too into ‘the game’)
- Bobby (way too blatant)
- Mark (way too insane, couldn’t fake being the [...]

stuck on the edge of my mind

soul brother Rocky

drawn together

Numb3rs, 3-8 “Hardball”

ten second review of Teachers