September 9th, 2008 | Tags: General, sesame street, sheer awesomeness, television | 1 Comment
Sesame Street, circa 2008: dominated by a whiny scene-stealing muppet who constantly refers to himself in the third person, Snuffleupagus has not been a figment of Big Bird’s imagination for over 20 years, Andrea Bocelli has guest-starred, etc.
Sesame Street, circa 1972: this:
At least they’re producing it in HD now, I guess.
August 29th, 2008 | Tags: fonts, television | Leave a comment
What I saw on television last night was thrilling, well-produced, and inspirational — and it left me eager to see more. I truly have something to be excited about this fall!
Of course, I refer to televised football (real college players and soon-to-be-unemployed pro players), and to our introduction to the first season of AMC’s Mad Men on DVD. (Friends of this site know well that your humble scribe has far better things to do than see a tedious political infomercial full of the same whorish rhetoric we’ve heard for this entire interminable election season.)
Mad Men is great so far in almost every way that matters. I noticed, though, that the closing credits rubbed me the wrong way. I elected not to point out the details to Andrea (since I fear she is quite weary of this specific branch of my nerddom), but then I noticed this article in my RSS reader this morning. Yeah, what he said.