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Napping: My People
August 24, 2007 – 10:59 AM | 23 Comments

Idly reading a New York piece in which Mary Gordon and A.M. Homes interview each other about the experience of writing “mother books,” I found two fantastic quotations from Homes that made me sit up …

Last Ralph Standing
August 17, 2007 – 5:01 PM | 8 Comments

…Boo. I was thinking to myself after the last ep that I was surprised Debra went home last week, because she’s the kind of comedian that I don’t really care for but that LCS audiences …

Day of the dead
August 16, 2007 – 9:30 PM | 10 Comments

I more or less spent the day with Elvis today — blogging three of his movies and watching the E! True Hollywood Story about his last days in between.I don’t really like his music, so …

Brothers & Sisters: “An Act Of Will”
June 21, 2007 – 9:56 AM | No Comment

“Will Power Trip”:

Joe passive-aggressives that he thought “the whole point of giving up the big corporate job for the family business was” — he nods after the kids — “you know.” Well, yeah. Couldn’t have …

“It’s Time To Play…Pass The Buck”
June 12, 2007 – 9:37 PM | 12 Comments

Prospective Replacements For Bob Barker On The Price Is Right:

Bob Vila
PROS: Hiring another dude named Bob could ease the transition for announcer Burton Richardson; Vila’s home-renovation expertise is handy for contestants unsure of how …

Brothers & Sisters: “Patriarchy”
June 6, 2007 – 4:56 PM | 4 Comments

“Family Values”:

You know that scene in Zoolander when they introduce David Bowie to judge the walk-off, and they freeze-frame on him with a subtitle reading “David Bowie” and a chord from “Let’s Dance”? This is …

“An Imprisoned Fish,” by HK
June 2, 2007 – 2:46 PM | 7 Comments

[Updated 6/2/07 with honorable mention entries.]
Below, the winner of the “An Imprisoned Fish” mini-contest. The entry contains all the hallmarks of the SA style: randomly capitalized and quaintly hyphenated words and phrases (“Champagne Punch,” “boy-friend”); …

Mondo Extras — MTV Movie Awards Special: “Movie Awards On Other Networks”
June 1, 2007 – 11:44 AM | No Comment

“If PBS Had A Movie-Awards Gala…”

A star-studded, faintly mothball-scented evening of battles and ball gowns, the Hissies — hosted by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will allegedly write her own material — celebrate the epic stories …

Brothers and Sisters: “Grapes of Wrath”
May 10, 2007 – 12:25 AM | 10 Comments

Holly’s incredulity switches to anger as she snaps that Rebecca “could have been in a ditch, or anywhere,” and can I just ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because …

Contest Deux!
May 4, 2007 – 5:56 PM | No Comment

The headline: “An Imprisoned Fish”
The deadline: May 10, 5 PM
The rules: same as last time
The prizes: a gift certificate from Brooklyn Industries for the winner; swag for the runners-up