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The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition
July 26, 2009 – 9:53 PM | 22 Comments
The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition

Typhus, the Brooklyn Dodgers of Flatbush, lesser Kennedys, seminal animé (say that five times fast), Argentine nutbars, and cod on the Cape — plus the N Cereal AA and the fall contest.These stories and more, …

TV Question Qorner: family affairs, charisma vacuums, and my busted gaydar
May 25, 2009 – 7:52 PM | 43 Comments
TV Question Qorner: family affairs, charisma vacuums, and my busted gaydar

I moved, I went to California for a week, and I’ve only just now started digging my way out from under a pile of season finales. And I have some questions. Answer them for me, …

“Hello, Goodbye”
May 20, 2009 – 9:51 AM | No Comment

The season-finale 90210 recap for SOAPnet:

Weird episode — too much time wasted on the Brenda dream sequence, the stoned Wilsons, and Jen’s wooden rendition of “scheming.” Good acting in the Adrianna subplot didn’t make up …

“Melo-prom-a”
May 14, 2009 – 3:49 PM | No Comment

My latest 90210 recap at SOAPnet:

Silver certainly won’t win again next year, since she uses the occasion to deliver a speech about how she’s had a hard year and she doesn’t know who she is …

My girl B. Art
April 27, 2009 – 12:46 PM | 34 Comments
My girl B. Art

I really can’t say it better than Wing and I said it in the TWoP book.   So, I won’t.   (Awesome image via Pop Hangover.)
Arthur, Bea. Bea Arthur starred in Maude and The Golden …

“Psychic Friends”
April 22, 2009 – 4:46 PM | No Comment

The latest 90210 recap at Soapnet.com:

The Wilsons have finally sold their house in Kansas. The sole purpose of this development is apparently to inspire a subplot about Harry refusing to sell his Big Mouth Billy …

TV Question Qorner: ESPN’s grief management, Coach the dragon-slayer, et cetera
April 11, 2009 – 12:55 AM | 11 Comments
TV Question Qorner: ESPN’s grief management, Coach the dragon-slayer, et cetera

Baseball Tonight. No doubt they meant well, and what happened to Nick Adenhart is undeniably a tragic waste, but Thursday’s Very Special Episode seemed to me like cynical pandering.I can barely trust BT to tell …

“Crazy Train”
April 8, 2009 – 10:00 AM | No Comment

90210 118, “Off The Rails”:

Silver, having abandoned her car downtown and freaked everyone out all the more, is at the train depot, blathering on to a stranger who looks like Denis Leary about chemical reactions …

TV Question Qorner: Lymanphobia, MtB goes to college, et al.
April 3, 2009 – 7:56 PM | 53 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Lymanphobia, <I>MtB</I> goes to college, et al.

CSI. When did it get so tiresome? I don’t think it’s because William Petersen left, but the timing does line up.
The real reason, I suspect, isn’t exactly that one, but it’s related. Between the downward …

“Mad World”
April 1, 2009 – 2:39 PM | 6 Comments

New 90210 recap up at Soapnet:

Silver needs to be alone for a while, too — in a padded room, because girlfriend has all-caps LOST IT. She and Dixon have taken their relationship to a somewhat …