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Recs du jour
April 30, 2007 – 10:59 AM | 11 Comments
Recs du jour

To read: Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
To watch: The Trials of Darryl Hunt
To wear: MAC Splashproof Lash; Aerosoles …

“Kerosene and Spiders,” by TPS
April 30, 2007 – 10:05 AM | 7 Comments

The winner of the “Kerosene and Spiders” mini-contest appears below.
What garnered this entry winning status? The random capitalization and the jump into the story with no lead-up; use of the terms “expiring” and “fairer sex”; …

Brothers and Sisters: “Sexual Politics”
April 25, 2007 – 9:11 PM | No Comment

We had a rerun this week, but it needed recapping, and now it’s done.

Chad says his girlfriend is out of town and he doesn’t “have a curfew,” as if that is the point or anything …

Contest!
April 25, 2007 – 9:21 AM | 7 Comments

(Note: This is not the contest, which I’ve rescheduled for the summertime. This is just a contest.)
The Scientific American entry spawned a few comments that got me thinking — what if I tried to write …

“American,” perhaps. “Scientific,” I don’t know.
April 24, 2007 – 2:19 PM | 55 Comments

Long ago, in an economy far far away, I had a job at Holtzbrinck Electronic Publishing. Holtzbrinck, a German company with many American-publishing holdings, also owned Scientific American, at least at that time; also at …

Brothers and Sisters recap
April 20, 2007 – 8:39 AM | 8 Comments

“Kevin accepts that as the truth, although he still wants nothing to do with the blind date on the merits (‘I don’t like your friends’), but it’s obvious from outer space that she’s lying, which …

Daily round-up
April 19, 2007 – 8:21 AM | 8 Comments

Lots of meetings/running around/hucking my laptop hither and yon today, so I may not have time to update properly. Just in case, a few goodies to hold you…
My recaplet of the AI results show (and …

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
April 12, 2007 – 10:12 AM | 24 Comments

I’ve recently gone back to recapping on Television Without Pity — on a show that’s in progress right now, so I had to start cramming episodes frantically to get caught up.For the last week, I’ve …

My latest recap
April 12, 2007 – 8:51 AM | 3 Comments

From Brothers & Sisters 118: Three Parties:
“She’s trying to ask you for a date, dicksmack. A little respect for the moment? Oh, I forgot. Your milkshake brings all the girls to the yard. And I …

Fonts de Leon
April 10, 2007 – 10:10 PM | 19 Comments

You know that scene in Field of Dreams when Busfield looks around and goes, “When did all these baseball players get here?”   That’s kind of how I’m feeling about the font on TN right …