Archive for February, 2008

“American Idol:” Two Out Of Four

Friday, February 29th, 2008

America got it half right last night with their “American Idol” elimination choices. They got the guys right, but Alexandrea and Alaina are the ones I would have kept. Kady and Kristy were worse than those two, but not by much. As Randy said, you can have a good voice, but [...]

Become An Educated Media Consumer

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, CNN fired a senior producer, Chez Pazienza from it’s show “American Morning” for blogging. His blog Deus Ex Malcontent is a personal blog about his life and misadventures. He gives his opinions on current issues but before his firing, didn’t write about CNN or his work [...]

HBO’s New YouTube Channel

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Love your HBO? Well you can now add to your HBO experience with the new HBO YouTube Channel. You can see promos of upcoming shows like, “John Adams,” “The Wire,” “The Gates,” and highlights of HBO championship boxing. Right now the only complete show episodes you’ll find there are of the [...]

“Lost” Snap Recap: “Eggtown” (2/21/08)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Though we start off this episode with Locke making breakfast—the last two eggs—for Ben, only to have him throw it against a wall when Ben does his head game mojo on him, our focus this week is Kate. In flashes forward, we find out more about what happens to Kate when the Oceanic Six [...]

Academy Awards Snap Recap

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The 80th Annual Academy Awards are over and it’s time to rip everyone to shreds. Well, maybe not everyone. Jon Stewart surprised me and did a half way decent monologue. His best line of the night? “Normally when you see a black man or woman president, an asteroid is about to hit [...]

“American Idol:” Slicing and Dicing

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

“Slicing and dicing” is how the oh, so sensitive Ryan Seacrest described the cut of four contestants from last night’s “American Idol.”
First they had the “Sixties medley group sing” with all the contestants dressed in black and white. The guys either looked like gangsters or like they were going to a funeral, and the [...]

The YouTube For Cooks

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The culinary world’s answer to YouTube is a little site called Im Cooked. I discovered this site via an article on the Chicago Tribune’s site called “Dot.com Cooking.” It featured several cool cooking sites including this one. Launched last May by Joseph Leibovic “out of a passion for cooking and a [...]

Glamorous Blu-ray Defeats Boring HD DVD

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Well, it’s official. HD DVD now stands for HD Dead, Very Dead. The winner and new champion is the Sony backed Blu-ray format and the High Definition DVD consumer.
Toshiba, the manufacturer of the HD DVD format announced yesterday they’re no longer going to produce HD DVD players. After recent announcements by Walmart, [...]

The Return of “America’s Next Top Model”

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Wanna be on top?  It’s back, folks.  “America’s Next Top Model.”
Tomorrow night at 8PM on the CW, it’s the return to New York City of the show that purports to bring us the modeling superstars of the future. You all remember, Jaslene, Danielle, and all those other winners, don’t you? Of course you do.
“ANTM” [...]

“Lost” Snap Recap: “The Economist” (2/14/08)

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve identified number four of the “Oceanic Six.” It’s Sayid Jarrah. We know this because after the writers trick us into thinking Sayid has taken his Oceanic settlement money and decided to golf the rest of his life away in the beautiful Seychelles, we discover that he’s really an assassin.
He’s [...]