I’ve been meaning to write about All American Muslim for a while. The show debuted on TLC right around the time I wrote about my misgivings about the Duggars and someone who commented on that post challenged me to compare…
Category: TV
Extreme(ly) Weird
I didn’t really intend to watch Extreme Couponing. In large part, I objected to use of the word “coupon” as a verb. Not. A. Verb. “Couponing” therefore is not a real word. The proper way to verbally characterize the act…
What I’m Watching Now: The Worst TV Ever
It’s official. I watch terrible television. I’m actually disgusted with myself whenever I get control of the clicker. And yet, I don’t ever flip over to PBS. No, I hover around E!, and Bravo, and TLC and Style network. Where…
What I DON’T Watch
So, I guess there was another Bachelor finale. A guy proposed to a girl he picked out of a line-up, like a cross between the Moonlight Bunny Ranch and a Russian mail-order bride operation. And I guess she said yes…
What I’m Watching Now: Jerseylicious and Married to Rock
The hiatuses (hiati?)of the Kardashians and the polygamist Browns have apparently left a gaping void in my life because I’m been channel surfing a lot lately. I get my weekly fix of my favorite matchmaking diva Patti Stanger on Millionaire…
The Best Minds of My Generation
I’ve been reading a lot of obituaries of the recently deceased Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke. This man is a. ma. zing. Seriously. He had been involved in every major foreign policy situation since Viet Nam. A graduate of an Ivy…
Reality (TV) Check
Sometimes I get stuck in my blogging. I need the world around me to provide subject matter and sometimes it fails me. But then…then there are days like yesterday when I click on the Entertainment tab at Huffington Post and…
What I’m NOT Watching: Bridalplasty
I don’t even know where to start. Most of you know that I love me some E! network. I like Joan Rivers snarking about clothes, I like cavorting Kardashians, I liked watching tears drip down Janice Dickinson’s immobile face in…
Sister Wives Honeymoon Travesty Part 2
Part Two Welcome to the second half of our serious and important social commentary on the phenomenon of polygamy and Kody Brown as its public face. If you missed the first half of the transcript of our live chat during…
Sister Wives: Behind the Couch
Remember back in the 1990s when you and your roommate and her boyfriend would turn off the phone, pop some popcorn and settle in to watch the X-Files for an hour on Sunday night, even though the gross ones really…
