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Today’s designated time-killers
November 13, 2007 – 3:20 PM | 60 Comments
Today’s designated time-killers

“It’s a stupid name!”   “So’s your face!”
The UN free-rice vocab game, guaranteed time-suck for word-nerd know-it-alls like me (thanks to reader Smash for the tip).
The new TWoP blogs, with daily picks and random bitching …

30 Rockmato
November 6, 2007 – 1:59 PM | 46 Comments

The TWoP site director asked me to do a little write-up for TWoP of my adventures on Friday — presumably in exchange for disrupting the office — and you can read it here. When you’ve …

“Not the church! Jesus lives there!”
October 25, 2007 – 11:24 PM | 10 Comments

Has the Fenway PA guy always sounded like Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons, or is that a recent development?

TN Fall Contest: Send In The Dancing Bears
October 23, 2007 – 5:50 PM | 30 Comments
TN Fall Contest: Send In The Dancing Bears

Thanks to Joe R for the graphic; thanks to all of you for awesomely hitting 89K today.
A couple of the remaining projects need less than a hundred bucks to get finished.

TN Fall Contest: Get Thee Behind Me, Colbert
October 22, 2007 – 9:30 PM | 17 Comments

With nine days to go, we’re at around 87K — just three grand more, and the mysteriously generous and generously mysterious $ throws in another $2,500, which would put us at $92,500. Which would put …

TN Fall Contest: Breaking News
October 2, 2007 – 4:15 PM | 60 Comments

I just received an email from Charles at Donors Choose with the header “Claire Danes’ manager just called…”

And he and Claire love your challenge. Claire will be sending you a signed DVD complete set of …

Hasselhoffiana
September 26, 2007 – 3:14 PM | 15 Comments
Hasselhoffiana

 

 Fig. 1: Puggelhoff
1. The Poseable Paper Hoff.
 
2. According to TV Tattle (also the source of the fine toy above), Variety reports that the Hoff will play himself on Tales from the Hoff: “[The] project …

Rec/Link Round-Up
September 26, 2007 – 2:03 PM | 6 Comments

Premiere-week hell continues over at TWoP, but we’ve got a boatload of new content going up, including my latest Brothers & Sisters Classic; a weecap of the Chuck pilot, which I really liked a lot …

Brad Womack and the President of Iran
September 25, 2007 – 3:15 AM | 20 Comments

What do they have in common?They’ve both made me very very tired today — the P. of I. because he clogged up traffic something fierce in midtown all day long, and excuse me, but why …

The straw that broke the questionable-wisdom camel’s back
September 19, 2007 – 9:06 PM | 20 Comments

Not that Kid Nation isn’t a perfect storm of WTF? already, but on top of everything else — a Vagisil ad during the broadcast? Really, ad sales team? You’re sure about that?   Don’t want …