Monday book night with Richard Castle
Last night, after catching a reading that’s related to a piece I’m working on, I headed to the Barnes & Noble at The Grove — not my regular stomping grounds,…
Category Archives: Television
LA Times books. Wasserman on PBS. And why I care.
I was excited to learn that Kassia Krozser (aka Booksquare) would be on PBS’s News Hour tonight. Hooray for book bloggers! Also exciting: she would be appearing with former LA…
Bedtime Reading with Conan O’Brien
Toward the end of his interview with Neil Patrick Harris last night, Conan O’Brien bemoaned interruptions of applause, which were slowing down the witty banter on stage. He imagined someone…
Off to meet Gene Rayburn in that big shag-carpeted rotating set in the sky
That’s Brett Somers kicking butt again in the upper middle tier of Match Game. She died Saturday at 83, according to the NY Times. (via). The man on her right…
Oh, those funny folks at Sci-Fi channel
Latenight they’re showing a Twilight Zone episode from 1963/64. It’s after the bombs have dropped, and the opening shows a ragtag band of survivors debating whether or not they can…
Memories of U4EA
U4EA=90210’s version of the dastardly drug Ecstacy. I know this because I watched 90210 all the way back when it began. Why? Why did I watch? When Season 2 was…
Reason 101.1 to love The Wire
OK, I’m playing catchup here. Season 2, episode 1. Brodie is the passenger in a van going down a highway, listening to rap; he’s never been outside of Baltimore. The…
Why I (belatedly) love The Wire
It’s my belief that the crime story in American fiction — and in American literature, even -– has become an essential genre ever since Hammett and Chandler. It is as…
To boldly go where no auction has gone before
On October 5-8, venerable auction house Christie’s gets its hands dirty with Hollywood-style spacedust with 40 Years of Star Trek stuff. From a redshirt outfit from the original series to…
