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SitCombat: 1/19/12
30 Rock took the first SitCombat win of 2012, but Tina Fey and company didn’t have to tangle with Archer. The much-anticipated return of the FX comedy comes after a strong run to end the second season, followed by a … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, Amber Nash, Archer, Burt Reynolds, Commentary, FX, NBC, Reviews, SitCombat, Television, The Office, Tina Fey, TV
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The Bark Side of the Force
Things have been a little long-winded around here of late. I wanted to try to accomplish two things with this post. First, drop the Brow-o-Meter down a notch or two. Mission accomplished. Secondly, I wanted to see how many categories … Continue reading
Posted in General Culture and News, Movies, Music, Sports, Television, Videos
Tagged Commercials, Dogs, General Culture and News, Movies, Music, Sports, Super Bowl, Television, Videos, Volkswagen
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The Return of SitCombat
I figured the season premiere of 30 Rock was as good a time as any to renew the weekly comedy showdown known as “SitCombat.” Archer comes back next week, so the opening contest of the year will be a one-on-one … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, Archer, Commentary, Ed Helms, James Spader, Jane Krakowski, Reviews, Television, The Office, Tina Fey, TV
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An Abridged History of Pro Wrestling’s Ethnic Identity Crisis
Highlighting ethnicity or nationality to help get certain professional wrestlers “over” is a technique as old as the business itself. The WWWF (later the WWF, now the WWE) used the origins of Bruno Sammartino (Italian), Spiros Arion (Greek), and Pedro … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Ethnicity, Fritz Von Erich, Gorilla Monsoon, Ivan Koloff, Johnny B. Badd, Kofi Kingston, Mark Mero, Mohammad Hassan, Nikita Koloff, Pro Wrestling, Professional Wrestling, Race, Racism?, Razor Ramon, Scott Hall, Sports, Sports Entertainment, Television, The Iron Sheik, The Undertaker, TV, Vince McMahon, WWE, Yokozuna
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What it Means to be the Best
The old adage about Ric Flair held that the Nature Boy was such a skilled in-ring performer in his prime that he could have a four-star match with a broomstick. What I always liked about that aphorism was that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Jericho, Commentary, Pro Wrestling, Sports, Sports Entertainment, Television, The End Begins, WWE, Y2J
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Awkward Moments in Entertainment History: The Worst Sitcom Joke of All Time
Sitcom fans born during the last twenty years have no idea how good they’ve had it. The ebb and flow of conventional wisdom changes the tone of the genre every generation or so. The early days of television had fanciful … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 80's, All in the Family, Cheers, Commentary, I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H, Mr. Belvedere, Newhart, Seinfeld, Sitcoms, Television, Til Death Us Do Part, TV, Videos
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The Axis of Ego Podcast: Mick Foley, Survivor Series, and UCBW
Tom recapped the trip to New York City for Survivor Series here, but Mike stopped by for a more thorough discussion of the events of that weekend. They go about an hour on the podcast this time around, covering … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Comedy, Mick Foley, Podcasts, Pro Wrestling, Professional Wrestling, Reviews, Sports, Survivor Series, Television, Travel, UCBW, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Vacation, WWE
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The Last Toy
I recently helped my mom prepare for a yard sale by going to her house and sifting through my childhood toys so that she could label and group them more accurately. As an only child in a middle-class family, I … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, Bandai, Cartoons, Childhood, General Culture and News, Hasbro, Intellectual Property, Jetfire, Licensing, Macross, Megatron, Nostalgia, Patents, Robotech, Television, Toys, Transformers
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What Commercials Have Taught Me About Myself
Television is more than a wondrous box rectangle that bestows upon us hours of entertainment, information, infotainment, and entermation. It’s a metaphorical window on our own society, more so even than the actual windows that face outward to the real … Continue reading
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Tagged Commercials, Gender, General Culture and News, Humor, Satire, Television, Videos
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The Take-home Message from the SOPA Debate
Tracking the political discourse regarding SOPA proved to be quite instructive in ways I hadn’t anticipated. My own view on the proposed bill was that, while the aims weren’t entirely bad, some of the presumptions in the law overreached in … Continue reading →