favorites
-
You may have heard that Beau recently completed the Herculean task of watching every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with me. It was kind of an agreed-upon prerequisite for living with me. I’m very proud of him for not only sticking it out, but also finding much to love about the show. Beau and
-
Last night’s “preview” episode of the fall TV series Glee was awesome. It was fun, was well-written, had some compelling characters, and was–yes–a little moving. It’s created by Ryan Murphy, who also brought us Nip/Tuck and Popular. Glee builds on a lot of the genius that was Popular, is savvy about high school power dynamics,
-
America’s Next Top Model is back and already an outrage! Tonight’s elimination was so WRONG and obviously motivated by keeping a bitchy, conflict-inspiring contestant in the house while sending home the sweet-natured, attractive, better performing model. So, aside from that, who am I loving? Allison, freaky-eyed alien girl, who is awkward and strange, but also
-
Over the weekend I made it a priority to get to a movie theatre, away from the heat, to see Speed Racer. I’ll be honest. I was initially skeptical about this cartoon remake, thinking it was going to end up totally LAME despite the best efforts of a great cast and a pair of visionary
charlesjensenwriter.com 