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Man, it’s like they read my mind

Britain — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:04:39 +0000

“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it.”

Lisa Gregorian of Warner Bros. TV
Fictional Stars Get a 21st Century Facelift - NYTimes.com

When Buster met the Sox

Britain — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:58:37 +0000

The kids’ TV series “Arthur” is produced in Boston, so could you blame them for having a little team pride following the breaking of the curse?

John Hodgman x Ken Burns parody

Britain — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:25:36 +0000

YouTube - John Hodgman - Hobo Matters

This would’ve been better if it hadn’t been seven minutes of slow, slow panning across one single photograph. Seriously, one picture of a guy on train tracks and one version of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." [via Victor]

Moto 6412 DVR 30-sec button is GO!

Britain — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:09:01 +0000

While researching the mysterious “NPLY” errors, I found a way to map a Remote button to 30-second skip (aka commercial skip) like TiVo has, or used to have. It seems to work much better than using fast-forward to get through commercials.

The Cable Monopoly’s guy eventually recalled our DVR box and its hours and hours of Backyardigans episodes. And I have to set up season passes all over again. Le Sob.

Link dump.

Britain — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:49:15 +0000

A few things I’ve been meaning to write more about but never had the time and I’m sick of seeing them as “drafts.” So I’m dumping them as one item.

One of the things I would never be able to do without the Internets is hear a guy named Homer Pimpson freestyle over the old NBA on NBC theme. As long as I’m at it, now would be a good time to point out Diffusion’s Diffusions Famous TV Theme Remixes [they're all British shows, though] and the French version of the A-Team theme [in mp3, scroll down], which is “the French version” because its lyrics are in French. Yes, it has sung lyrics. And they are in French. If you like NBC TV themes, also look for “Platinum Stars” by Li’l Flip, where the Pac-Man sampling Houston guy and his cronies flow over a break from “Gimme a Break!”
Indie game reviews [that is, reviews of free and/or indie-published games] here
and here.
May have to investigate this further: a one-click installer for a VNC server hardwired to connect to you, intended for helpdesk applications, but maybe good for Mom and Dad’s computer too [your Mom and Dad, I mean; mine are on a Mac].

Aaah, that felt good. Off to bed.

Danny Partridge 2200 A.D.

Britain — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:34:15 +0000

The P-Boink profile of the precocious Partridge brat brings to mind the old 70s Saturday Morning cartoon formula of rehashing prime-time sitcoms in space or in another preposterous setting that could only be animated.

There was a Gilligan’s Island cartoon show where they were marooned on an uncharted planet. There was a Happy Days cartoon where Richie, Potsie, and Ralph wound up stuck in some teenage alien girl’s time machine. I think Fonzie was in there with them, while simultanously running the motor pool at the Army base where Laverne and Shirley were stationed on their own cartoon show. Yeah, Laverne and Shirley’s cartoon show was about them being in the Army. Click the link, I swear I’m not making this up.

The P’Boink writer suggests “Yes, Dear” would best be served as a cartoon series about fighting robots. Which makes me wonder…

If “Friends” had spun off a cartoon series: the gang would all be living on a space station with talking alien pets. Perhaps they would someday travel to the WNYX space station from that one season finale of NewsRadio.

If “Everybody Loves Raymond” were a cartoon series: Ray would be a decorated race driver/crime fighter with a mad tricked-out car. The Barone brats would be replaced by a hapless toddler and a precocious monkey — I mean, the other way around — no, I don’t. Ray would occasionally be defeated at the checkered flag by his sad-sack archrival, an off-duty New York cop known only as “Robert X,” but who, the announcer reminds us, is SECRETLY…

I will endeavor to update this as other ideas come to me.

Say my name: Denny Crain.

Britain — Tue, 31 May 2005 23:25:14 +0000

I look forward to revisiting Alan Shore and his Bizarroworld version of Boston, but I worry that the upcoming episode referred to here will extinguish his torrid sexual tension with Denny and ruin the show the way Moonlighting jumped the shark when the leads finally slept together.

CSI Buttons.

Britain — Fri, 23 May 2003 20:30:00 +0000

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As long as Jerry Bruckheimer keeps making this and Without a Trace, we forgive him for “Kangaroo Jack.”

More Law & Order Blogbuttons

Britain — Fri, 23 May 2003 20:17:00 +0000

Well, Taylor included the first Law & Order blogbutton on his
Steal These page, but then he
didn’t include a link back here on there. Either he didn’t like the idea, or he
didn’t like my .commentary. [Come on, how many BlogShares buttons do we really need?]
Anyway, Pete Rock made
some more for those of you who like the thumbnail portrait thing.

Give him a shout on his guest book if you’re not that german guy who keeps hitting
up the poor tokalans for free domains for his porn sites.

“Blogbuttons” for Law And Order

Britain — Fri, 23 May 2003 20:14:00 +0000

Have you been over to Steal
These lately? There’s over 300 of them, just like there are over 300
episodes of the various Law & Order series [episodes 299 and 300 of the
flagship series air tonight on NBC]. About half of the “Steal These”
buttons are grassroots advertising for Dreamhost and various soft
drinks, so I thought I might contribute to further page clutter
with some buttons for the various Law & Order series.

Law & Order
TITLE="Det. Lennie Briscoe">
TITLE="Exec. ADA Ben Stone">
TITLE="Exec. ADA Jack McCoy">

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TITLE="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fan.">
TITLE="Det. John Munch">

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TITLE="Law & Order: Criminal Intent fan.">
TITLE="Det. Robert Goren">

Got a request? Lay it on me. Mailto link is to the left there.

I would love a “dude, rock” message if you like a button/s and use it/them,
but it’s not necessary. As per usual with my CC license, don’t try to
sell anything with these things without letting me know, but if you do
manage to sell them, more power to you. I just kludged these up in a
few minutes with WinGIMP and a
graphic from HREF="http://www.uni-television.com/criminalintent/">the L&O CI site.
Feel free to download Silkscreen and put “Olivia” or “Fin” or “Cragen” in
there if you want, too. Maybe fix the L&O logo, I know it didn’t shrink
too well. Work your elfin magic.

As for sites to link to with these buttons… well, there used to be some
great fansites I can’t find anymore. You could try HREF="http://www.uni-television.com">the Universal Television
sites for the various series. HREF="http://www.podengo.com/apocrypha/">Apocrypha
has some character descriptions to help the novice L&O fanfic writer
[which I am not, but still]. Dick Wolf
himself used to have a great
site with episode capsules and such, but it just points to Universal
now. Good luck.

UPDATE: The first submitted L&O button hits the mean streets.

This one’s for the Orbach fan. Give Peter a holla, yo.