I remember the simpler days of my youth. One commercial channel, one government channel and you could only watch as many programs as you had waking hours since PVRs were but a distant twinkle in some yet unborn tech head’s eyes (best not to think that one through too Continue Reading
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Happy last minute pop culture Christmas greetings!
Right it’s Boxing Day here in Australia and I hadn’t planned on any more Christmas posts but I kept forgetting all sorts of fun festive posts by my favourite TV shows, music artists and movies and had to share them. You’re Ho! Ho! Ho! welcome. Continue Reading
Merry Christmas to all … and to all a good book, movie, TV show or song
Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you so much for reading, tweeting and otherwise supporting my blog this year. May your festive season be full of singing … Special times with family and friends (and, of course, the holiday armadillo) … Magical adventures … Continue Reading
“Oh you shouldn’t have!” Miranda Hart and David Walliams teach you how to graciously accept your gifts
We’ve all been there on Christmas morning. You are given a brightly-wrapped present from a clearly thrilled and excited family member, and thrilled, yes thrilled (!) at what exciting treasure may lie ahead, you rip off the ribbons and paper (yes I am a destructive present opener) and find Continue Reading
It’s a very animated Community Christmas, Jeff!
They’re animated again! In the tradition of “Troy and Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”, where the Greendale gang were rendered in gloriously colourful stop motion animation and last year’s “Abed’s Master Key” webisodes, Jeff & co. have been pixelated for your festive enjoyment. In the episode entitled “Miracle on Jeff Street”, Continue Reading
On the 10th day of Christmas … I watched “A Simple Christmas” (The Middle S2, E10)
It’s an oft heard lament that the real meaning of Christmas has been lost under a tsunami of mindless gift giving, with the average person more concerned with what they’re getting than what they’re giving. The Middle decided to tackle that sentiment in their season 2 festive episode, “A Continue Reading
On the 8th day of Christmas … I listened to Nerina Pallot’s We Made It Through Another Year EP
There is a fitting wistfulness to Nerina Pallot’s just released Christmas EP We Made it Through Another Year. Not so much because of the British artist herself whom I have found over the course of many LPs and EPs, and in everyday Twitter conversation, to be every bit as Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Tis the season to be murdered” (Hart to Hart, S2 E5)
“Oh Jonathan! What a lovely day. This is going to be the best Christmas ever.” And with those words, Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers), who by this stage in season 2 of Hart to Hart (1980) should know better, dooms the Harts to another festive season littered with murder and mayhem. Continue Reading
‘Twas the couch gag before Christmas: The Simpsons’ title sequence gets its festive on
SNAPSHOT Springfield is inundated with holiday revelers after the nuclear power plant springs a radiation leak, causing snow to fall all over town. When the tourists drive up Christmas shopping prices, Marge (Julie Kavner) opens up the Simpsons’ house to boarders in the all-new “White Christmas Blues”. If there Continue Reading
On the 4th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Christmas Scandal” (Parks and Recreation, S2 E12)
If there is one episode that illustrates just how far Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) had come from the ditzy if eminently capable Pollyanna-esque figure of season 1 to the still wide-eyed and optimistic but far more capable and intelligent figure of season 2, it’s “Christmas Scandal”. It’s not simply Continue Reading