There was a marked lack of strife in the Papageorgiou household during Christmas this year, which is odd, because we are a bunch of excitable Greek savages who scream for sport and, during the holidays, even icy-hearted WASPs manage to lock their flaxen horns whilst sipping their scotch or whatever […]
Note: You can click any of the song titles to download the .mp3 directly via Amazon. Because me shilling like a Jew when writing about Christmas songs is deliciously ironic. 5. Bing Crosby-“White Christmas“ I’m a huge fan of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” because I can’t remember a Christmas without […]
In the pantheon of brilliant television comedies, one show stands above all others. Its name? The Larry Sanders Show. That said, Peep Show (a Britcom, but don’t hold that against it) is in my all-time top five and currently streaming on Netflix, which is a good thing, because the British […]
Last week, the Always Sunny gang did a great job with the first half of Season 7’s finale, “
It’s been a while since I wrote about It’s Always Sunny, due to my belief that this season has been in the doldrums since the brilliant “Frank’s Brother” (an episode that I’m aware many of you hated, which shows that my tastes are simply that much more refined than that […]
A year ago, I wrote this piece on not understanding why people enjoyed The Walking Dead. It seemed like yet another pedestrian foray into zombie apocalypse genre and the hype surrounding it totally escaped me. Fast forward 10 months, and, after viewing season 1 on Netflix (you could put scat […]
Today’s article was originally an ode to the gushing fire hydrant of failure that The Walking Dead has become. I made several attempts at completing it, but my mind couldn’t focus on the task at hand. My thoughts kept wandering back to the passing of Patrice O’Neal, which I had […]
Thanksgiving is about three things: Family, gluttony and football. As long as those three items are in alignment, it’s all going to turn out okay. Sometimes, though, the Fates have other plans. Maybe your cousin finally worked up the nerve to come out of the closet and inadvertently makes the […]
Things start with me screaming ’til I lose my voice about the disrespectful c-u-next-Tuesday I had on my show two weeks ago. My bile sufficiently vented, I turn my attention to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and ask my co-hostess what the Hell women see in that crap. (Thankfully not […]