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Health &Television | 13 Jul 2009

Dr. House is a Wuss

For the last few days I’ve been playing DVDs of House M.D. as background noise while I work, and just heard the following, from the season 3 episode “Top Secret.” HOUSE: I haven’t peed in three days! WILSON:  You’d be dead. HOUSE: I’m not counting intermittent drips. WILSON: You’d be in agony. HOUSE: I passed [...]

Television | 22 Mar 2009

Unorganized Battlestar Ranting

Still too focused on my short story to put any mental energy into structuring these thoughts. The decision to give up all technology and live in a state of grace with nature was completely unmotivated and nonsensical.  It is impossible to believe that 38,000 people all agreed, after years of struggling to maintain their way [...]

Television | 20 Mar 2009

Immediate Post-Battlestar Reaction

Oh my gods, that was such a train wreck.  What the frak was Ron Moore thinking? Decree: there is no last hour of Battlestar Galactica, in much the same way that there is only one season of Heroes.  Battlestar Galactica ends with the ship getting destroyed at the colony when they attempt to jump away.  [...]