On almost every sin­gle episode of Blue’s Clues the human char­ac­ter (either Joe or Steve, or in the UK, Kevin) and the dog Blue “ski­doo” some­where, which is an amaz­ingly sim­ple form of tele­port­ing (trans­port­ing one­self from one place to another instantly), whether onto the sur­face of a globe or into the image on a […]

My old­est son loves the Curi­ous George show on PBS. He laughs along with it and after­wards will tell me the intri­cate plot points that moved the show from point A to Z. He has his favorites and his not-so-favorites, but gen­er­ally he enjoys all of them, some­what, even if he doesn’t love all of them.

If you’ve read this blog for any period of time you know that I’ve loved, and then hated, and then loved “Lost”. It started out with a (lit­eral) bang and then went down­hill for awhile and then came back up and then kinda mud­dled around and then really hit its stride a sea­son or two […]

When the new Bat­tlestar Galac­tica came on the air sev­eral years ago one of the fun fan­boy things to say was “frak”, which was the Colonial’s way of say­ing The F Word. You could say it and it was like an in-joke and also it didn’t really mean any­thing, so you could say it in […]

I love ‘Lost’. This cur­rent sea­son is so great I would marry it if I wasn’t already mar­ried. But I’ve noticed that ‘Lost’, which is prob­a­bly one of the best shows cur­rently on tele­vi­sion, keeps doing this stu­pid stu­pid dia­logue con­ven­tion over and over and over until you could make a drink­ing game out of […]