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Castle

I don’t think I could love this show more if it were made of chocolate with little sprinkles on top.

I watched the first episode for two reasons: the show is about a mystery writer, and he’s played by Nathan…

Break it to me gently

I’ve just zipped through the Dresden Files series at a pretty spectacular clip. I’d meant to do it before Jim Butcher appeared at ConDFW, but, y’know. Life.

So. Exactly how bad was the TV series?

(ETA: pretty bad.)

I know code fu and you are standing between me and my entertainment.

So after Hulu got yanked from Boxee, I told Michael, “You know, I give it about a week before the hackers figure out how to put it back.”

More like twelve hours. Do not get between geeks and their…

DirecTV, Apple TV, Boxee, Hulu, and the fight over who decides what I get to watch on my TV

DirecTV, and some backstory

Last week we had a thunderstorm. Not even an especially notable one, really, except the lightning was close enough that we unplugged the laptops before we went to bed, just as a precaution.

When we went…

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Short version: Joss Whedon has a musical web serial; go watch it.

Longer version: this is the video blog of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), a hapless evil genius who’s trying to perfect a freeze ray that will stop…

Screen review roundup

Big screen first:

Definitely, Maybe — I like Ryan Reynolds quite a bit, but he fell a little flat for me in this, and I’m not sure if he was really bad or if he just didn’t have much to…

Back to work!

The strike is over. Thank God. Because Conan came on while I was working on the new Paged Media design, and OMG it’s painful to watch.

I hear we’re getting a second season of Pushing Daisies but no…

There is not enough “shiny” in the ‘verse

Steven Brust has posted his Firefly novel online under a Creative Commons license.

ETA: A bit of backstory on how this came about, from a 2006 con report.

Theoretical episodes

Striking writers propose episodes of other writers’ series, including the Daily Show writers finishing off Pushing Daisies:

Attempting to revive his strike-threatened show, Ned decides to ââ

Posted on February 5 2008, 12:38 am in Television · 4 comments

Pushing Daisies

I’ve just finished watching all nine existing episodes of Pushing Daisies. I’m going to expire from love of this show. Poor Ned will have to hop out of the TV to revive me so I can go around pressing other…

Because I haven’t done one of these in a while

New words: 981
Reason for stopping: quota, must go get some other things done today, because that took hours
Sustenance: Raspberry tea, yummy basil-tomato cheddar I picked up at Blue Baker the other day
Exercise: BodyFlow yesterday.…

Because Joss is my master now…

Good news: new Joss show.
Better news: it stars Eliza Dushku.
Even better news: the network has ordered 7 episodes, not just a pilot.

Bad news?

The network in question is Fux Fox.

ETA: Minear is in on…

What’s in THE BOX?

Do the Heroes and Prison Break writers go drinking in the same bar after work or something?

Mika Brzezinski vs. MSNBC producers

Congress is pressuring the White House on several fronts. Flooding kills people in Texas. The Supreme Court hands down several controversial decisions.

Guess what the lead story was on MSNBC’s morning show.

Charlie Jade

Hmm. What to say about Charlie Jade? It’s a freaky little SF show you’ve probably never heard of. I hadn’t, until Preston mentioned it in his blog. I was intrigued enough to go looking for the episodes. They…