Day 230: 17 Things I Didn’t Know About The Golden Girls

originally published August 17, 2012 Like any red-blooded North American youth in the late 80s, I spent many a Saturday evening watching four retirement-age ladies talk about cheesecake and humping. I saw an episode of The Golden Girls a few weeks ago and it still made me laugh, which is more than I can say […]

Day 214: Flipping Through Drek – Worst TV Part 1

originally published August 1, 2012 Last month I picked on three films from Wikipedia’s list of movies considered to be the worst. Today we’re shifting to the small screen. It may surprise you to know that, in among those quality hours of flipping houses, making over ugly people, and voting top chefs off the island […]

Day 208: Hosting TV Talk’s History

originally published July 26, 2012 Hey kids. It’s your Uncle Marty here with a little talk to get you ready for grown-up life. Your parents will handle the important stuff: sex, career, whether it’s okay to ask a woman if she’s pregnant. I’d like to talk to you about talk shows. You’ve probably seen a […]

Day 204: “Probability” – Because Why Write About What I Know?

originally published July 22, 2012 Since the beginning of this bizarre experiment, I have had the privilege of writing about a movies I have never seen (Mermaids), musicians I have never heard (Bob Log III), places I’ll never go to (Leckhampstead), people I’ll never meet (Mary Nissenson), and now I get to write about a […]

Day 199: The Looneys’ Supporting Cast

originally published July 17, 2012 On this glorious second-to-last day of my writing project, I… oh… right, it’s 1000, not 200. Damn. Okay, on this nowhere-near-the-endth day of this writing project, I opt to flash back to my youth, to the childhood that’s been baking in the incandescent red-green-blue glow of my TV-tube memory. Back […]

Day 165: Master Of Muppets

originally published June 13, 2012 There are some topics I select because they tell an interesting story. Some topics I choose because of my fascination with pop culture minutiae. Other topics I write about because they are bacon. Today I’m indulging my own curiosity. Ms. Wiki tuned my dial to a man whose handiwork (sub-mediocre […]

Day 152: Counting Down The Days Of Our Lives

originally published May 31, 2012 If daytime television was a nature reserve, then soap operas would be on the endangered species list. Where once they roamed free, drinking from the waters of extramarital affairs and seeking shelter from low ratings under bountiful storylines about amnesia, long-lost siblings and husband-stealers, now their numbers are few. One […]

Day 125: Nine Shakespearean Sonnets About Immortality In Fiction

originally published May 4, 2012 In honor of reaching the 1/8th benchmark of what I’ve come to call “My Bat-Shit Crazy Project”, I felt I should contemplate a larger issue – something beyond stacking chairs and arctic wastelands. Yes, even something beyond bacon. Luckily, Ms. Wiki bestowed upon me the gift of Immortality. Well, the […]

Day 109: 15 Facts About William Shatner

originally published April 18, 2012 After a barrage of flavorless Wikipedian stubs about soccer players, Polish villages and moth species, a familiar face looked coyly out at me from the right-side column of the page. It was a face that said, “Hey there. You landed on my page. You know you want to write about […]

Day 78: Before My Time – Texaco Star Theater

originally published March 18, 2012 I wasn’t entirely sold on this topic. Sure, I have a sense of history. I understand that, while my childhood television hours were focused on whether Schneider would fix Bonnie Franklin’s squeaky hinge, or whether Fonzie would get together with those girls and… well, I didn’t know what he did […]