My TV rankings, week of Oct. 21
1. Once Upon a Time (ABC Sundays) [last week: 1]I really like this new storyline with Peter Pan as the archvillain(?). He's powerful, clever, and exudes malevolence.2. Scandal (ABC Thursdays) [last...
View ArticleNeal Stephenson and Charles Dickens
I've been listening sporadically to the audiobook of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon for the past month or so, about an hour to an hour and a half at a time when running. Audiobooks take a little...
View ArticleMy TV rankings, week of Nov. 4
The fall season is still young but not so young that winners and losers aren't already sorting themselves out. The new shows (in bold below) have been a very disappointing crop from my point of view,...
View ArticleFortune's list of 25 most powerful female TV characters
Fortune Magazine put together a list of the 25 most powerful female characters on TV but it's at best incomplete. It's bad enough that the #1 woman is the insufferably insipid and vapid Daenerys...
View ArticleFrivolity: introducing the "who would win in a fight" bracket
The other night, I was watching CBS's "Person of Interest" where Jim Caviezel's soft-spoken ex-Special Forces operative Reese beats up a bunch of bad guys single-handedly. This followed CBS's "Hawaii...
View ArticleMy TV rankings, week of December 2
All rightie, November sweeps are over and many shows on the broadcast networks are going into midseason finales or have already.1. Once Upon a Time (ABC Sundays) [last week: 1]Did you catch the reveal...
View ArticleFrivolity: Sydney Bristow vs. Xena
Okay, let's get going on the "who would win in a fight?" competition! For an explanation of the ground rules, check out this post.The first match-up is between Sydney Bristow (ABC's Alias, 2001-06),...
View ArticleFrivolity: John Reese v. Captain Picard
Continuing my "who would win in a fight" series, today's match up pits John Reese (Jim Caviziel) from CBS's "Person of Interest" against Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) from "Star Trek: The...
View ArticleDid ABC's "Once Upon a Time" just use up the perfect series finale?
Warning: Spoilers for the winter finale of ABC's "Once Upon a Time" (air date 12/16/2013).... It's no secret that "Once Upon a Time" is my favorite show on air right now. I love the "Lost"-like...
View ArticleCBS's "Intelligence": The ACLU's worst nightmare?
CBS's much-hyped mid-season drama "Intelligence" debuted earlier this week to so-so ratings. It stars Josh Holloway (Sawyer on "Lost") as Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Special Forces operative who has been...
View ArticleHarry Bosch is coming to TV (well, video)
I've been a big fan of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series since I first discovered them in the late 1990s. The Concrete Blonde (1993) is quite possibly my favorite crime & courtroom novel.Now...
View ArticleLet's help George RR Martin finish the "Song of Ice and Fire" series....
I was a latecomer to George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" (aka A Game of Thrones series). It took me two tries to get into it, with the second being the ebook version borrowed through Oregon's...
View ArticleSix ways in which running has warped my thinking [Run Oregon]
I've got a new column at Run Oregon about six ways in which running has warped my thinking. Extra bonus: a picture of adorable lion cubs! (Click through to see the connection.)
View Article"Hawaii 5-0" has an epic fail on federal versus state courts and more
I really like watching CBS's "Hawaii 5-0," and I don't even think of it as a guilty pleasure. It's got the gorgeous backdrop of Oahu, good chemistry among the cast, and three Asian-American actors in...
View ArticleI'm like Ike....?
According to this 50 question personality test, the U.S. President that I most resemble in personality is Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hmm. . . it turns out that I've been reading about Eisenhower lately...
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"Skyfall" -- why was it so popular?
Over the weekend, courtesy of Amazon Prime, I watched the most recent James Bond movie, "Skyfall." The critics seemed to have loved this flick, with a number of them saying it was the best Bond movie...
View ArticleLet's play ball!
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the idea that fantasy football is the best fantasy sport, but I still like fantasy baseball a lot, so I joined a public league more or less at the last moment (i.e., a...
View ArticleI guess you can cross "HIMYM" off the list of possible best series finales....
I'm not one for sit-coms, so I didn't watch "How I Met Your Mother" during its 9-year-run, but being the avid Entertainment Weekly reader that I am, I know something about the show. So I was mildly...
View ArticlePlay (fantasy) baseball!
Way back in 2001, I started a fantasy baseball league with fellow lawyers and staff at Munger Tolles & Olson. Naturally, we called the league "BatMungers." Even as several of us left the firm (and...
View ArticleA fitting trade: Terrelle Pryor to the Seahawks
It seems quite fitting that the Seattle Seahawks traded for Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor. This way, a player who violated NCAA rules about getting free stuff while at Ohio State and then left...
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