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Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Moving The Chains
February 12, 2014 – 9:51 PM | No Comment
Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Moving The Chains

Football, figure skating, and France.

Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: You Don’t Know Jack
January 14, 2014 – 12:00 PM | 3 Comments
Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: You Don’t Know Jack

But you might want to, FINALLY.

Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Mitch Gaylord Weeps
December 23, 2013 – 7:36 AM | 12 Comments
Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Mitch Gaylord Weeps

Well, tries to.

Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Survey Says
December 12, 2013 – 12:00 PM | 7 Comments
Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Survey Says

It’s Game Show Week at Previously.TV!

Happy birthday to me!
March 21, 2013 – 1:38 PM | 32 Comments
Happy birthday to me!

Okay, so I left Yahoo!, even though I had a great team/time there, because I had some other things I wanted to do, like work on The Blotter, and also, let’s be honest, curse freely …

Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts
February 12, 2013 – 4:49 PM | 3 Comments
Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts

Above, Coco Rocha schools Buzzfeed on the perfect photobomb. Hee.
On The Blotter, The Amazing Soriano solved the category-spacing ish. Thanks, friend.
On Yahoo!, I recapped The Carrie Diaries, Girls (ugh), and love in an elevator on Nashville; interviewed Coco Rocha about …

Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Carrie, commercials, Kingles
January 31, 2013 – 10:49 AM | 8 Comments
Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Carrie, commercials, Kingles

On The Blotter, I talked about the ambiguity of Zodiac‘s ending with Matt Zoller Seitz and Mike D’Angelo, and reviewed an excellent Jack the Ripper book. (Coming soon: a “compleat Betty Broderick” line-up from me and …

Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Oprah, Rayna, and Ralph
January 18, 2013 – 6:33 PM | 3 Comments
Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Oprah, Rayna, and Ralph

On Yahoo!, I broke down Night One of the Lance/Oprah interview (twice); recapped Nashville, The Carrie Diaries, Revenge, and Girls; and talked about Oprah some more.
On Revolting Snacks, Dr. Glark filed a report from L.A. on some …

All-time scariest TV episodes
October 11, 2012 – 1:10 PM | 114 Comments
All-time scariest TV episodes

Hey, folks. I’m sourcing a story for Yahoo! about the all-time scariest TV episodes, and I just know I’m forgetting some obvious ones. (I’m also a bit embarrassed that finding clips from Star Trek: TOS‘s “A …

Recently in the Snacksiverse: Reel 54Q, Lester’s Fixins
September 28, 2012 – 11:16 AM | 11 Comments
Recently in the Snacksiverse: Reel 54Q, Lester’s Fixins

Testing the revulsive/retroperistaltic coefficients of Lester’s Fixins sodae. Subjects included Sweet Corn, Buffalo Wing, Coffee, and Bacon flavors. One (1) test reel corrupted. Report filed by Drs. S. Douglas and D. Gardner Bunting.