Posts Tagged ‘television’
Could “Mad Men” Be the Greatest Show in Television History?
Mad Men finished its sixth and penultimate season on AMC a week ago Sunday. My wife and I have not stopped talking about it since. The last image before the credits roll of fourteen year old Sally Draper exchanging glances with her father Don Draper will stay in my mind for some time to come. […]
Oliver Stone’s Untold History
Oliver Stone is no stranger to controversy. His trilogy of Vietnam war films, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth; his take on the Kennedy assignation in JFK; the violence of Natural Born Killers; his “greed is good” indictment in Wall Street, his portrayal of Turkish people in Midnight Express, and […]
It Was a Good Summer
Does anyone ever get over the feelings of our childhood, when as school children we anticipated the arrival of our summer vacation with heart palpitating impatience, and greeted the inevitable return to classes in September with both wistful resistance and the thrill of new beginnings. As Joni Mitchell said in her song “Urge for Going”, […]
Cool ways to listen!
I just read a comment from a listener who uses a Roku device to listen to WBJC online, and I wondered how many of you out there have found creative new ways of listening to WBJC. I have this very same set-top device for watching Netflix or Amazon on demand via internet on my TV […]
What a nice way to end a workday!
A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a man who needed me to help him ID a classical piece. That’s all in a day’s work around here, but there were a couple of unusual things about this request. First, the caller had a snippet of a recording to play for me, which […]
I love TV, but I pay for it
This discussion of the state of television is turning into a WBJC roundtable. Sorry guys, but my wife and I love TV. And, yes, the fact that we pay a large monthly satellite TV bill has a lot to do with it. In fact, I will pontificate as much to say I believe we are living […]
Current TV: great for cooking shows, not much else.
A variation on Mark Malinkowski’s TV-themed post from this morning… Jim & I watch almost no TV. He’ll check out the occasional sporting event, especially college basketball (the first two days of March Madness count as a religious holiday for him, on which it would be very foolish of me to try to schedule anything […]
