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- Weirdest. "Mad Men." Ever. 3 days ago
- Canny: restaurants advertising on cooking shows. Those that can't, do drive-thru. 4 days ago
- Great Kirk Douglas newsroom rants in "Ace in the Hole," but telling a coworker he "could do wonders w her dismembered body" is no go today. 6 days ago
- Don Draper and Roger Sterling, dispensing twisted lessons. Yikes. #madmen 1 week ago
- It's cheesy, but I always stop on a channel playing the original "Red Dawn." Especially for Powers Boothe. 1 week ago
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- appalachia
- Avengers 2
- Batman
- Blizzard of '78
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Captain America The Winter Soldier
- childhood myths and obsessions
- Christmas
- classic TV
- comic books
- DC Comics movies
- drive-in movies
- End of the world
- favorite books
- favorite toys
- geek culture
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Halloween
- horror films
- Indiana
- iphoneography
- Iron Man 3
- Justice League animated series
- Mad Men
- Man of Steel
- Marvel comics movies
- monster kids
- monster magazines
- monster world
- monsters kids
- moon footprints
- movie ads
- movie theaters
- movies
- Muncie
- mystery
- newspaper comic strips
- photography
- pulps
- radio
- restaurants
- Sherlock Holmes
- social media
- Star Trek
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Star Wars
- Stephen King
- store memories
- Superman
- telephone
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Avengers
- The Dark Knight
- The Simpsons
- The Walking Dead
- Thor the Dark World
- TV
- Uncategorized
- unsung actors
- World War Z
- X-Men Days of Future Past
- zombies
Like I was saying …
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Tag Archives: The Simpsons
The Oscars? I love ‘em. But …
When the Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, I stopped what I was doing and watched a few rounds of the nominations. I didn’t study them and dissect them the way I would have for about a decade when … Continue reading
‘The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror’ for 2012
For a couple of decades, “The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror” was an annual ritual in my household. Even after we weren’t watching the show regularly, we would tune in each October (sometimes November, when Fox pre-empted the show for post-season … Continue reading
‘I feel like chicken tonight’ – TV and music
I think it was in 1987, when I was watching the TV special “Rolling Stone Magazine’s Twenty Years of Rock N Roll,” that I realized how thoroughly TV had co-opted popular music. Sure, shows like “American Bandstand” and “Soul Train” … Continue reading
‘Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie:’ Totally in your face
Leave it to “The Simpsons” to have the final word on adding unwanted — and hated — characters to a TV show. I’m talking about Poochie, the “proactive” and “totally in your face” canine added to the show-within-a-show, “Itchy and … Continue reading
‘The Simpsons’ marks 500 episodes
“The Simpsons” reached its 500th-show milestone tonight, in case you’ve been living off the grid for a while now and haven’t heard. As has been the case since the mid-90s, the episode was pretty hit-and-miss. There were some funny moments, … Continue reading
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Tagged 500th episode of The Simpsons, The Simpsons
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‘The Simpsons’ approaching 500th episode
We’ve been watching a lot of episodes of “The Simpsons” in my household lately. Not new episodes, but classics from old DVD collections. My son has discovered the show and is currently obsessively watching the fifth season which, I’m startled … Continue reading
Halloween horror: ‘Walking Dead’ rocks, ‘Simpsons’ sucks
Here we are, on the eve of Halloween, and various movie channels are having marathons, ranging from the classics on TCM to later, lesser “Halloween” movies on AMC. Into the mix comes the latest episode of “The Walking Dead” on … Continue reading
Posted in classic TV, End of the world, Halloween, TV
Tagged Halloween, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead, Treehouse of Horror
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