Old FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

Despite all my warm layers of clothing, the routine of Vitamin C, the constant orange juice and grapefruit juice, I’ve apparently been doomed tonight to cross from the old year to the new with a cold.

Or, rather, watch the Tournament Of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day, and see whether or not any network shows the pro-writer “skytyping” messages fans are buying to be flown over the event.

“The writers can’t wait to get back to writing for Dave,” posts Late Show writer Justin Stangel, “and you better believe we’re going to bring attention to the strike as long as it lasts.”

Really, I don’t particularly care where Portland is in this annual study ranking the literacy of cities. But I do care (mildly, anyway) about how such studies are conducted. And while I haven’t yet gone through it methodically, the basis upon which it made its rankings for Internet resources make me question its methodology.

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Really, only one thing needs to be said about this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special: The gifted Steven Moffat did more with the mere seven minutes of Time Crash (this year’s Children In Need special from last month) than the increasingly-hackish Russell T. Davies could do in the overly-long Voyage of the Damned. It is as if Davies woke up one morning and said to himself, “Ah, well, I guess I’d better make some sort of Christmas special this year.” As sad as that is, it would be better for it to be true than for Voyage of the Damned to be a harbinger of what Davies is bringing us in the next season.

Speaking of the writers strike, this article contains a good example either of a newspaper trying to game public perception, or just really shitty writing.

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Over here at Idiot Box, we have a good example of how piss-poor our paper of record’s “coverage” of the writers strike has been (not that anyone else around town has been much better). As the introduction to his list of the best television shows of the year, Peter Carlin manages to dismiss all of Hollywood as one monolithic entity with completely homogenous motivations.

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