Entertainment

Losing Lost

March 30, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Losing Lost

On May 23, one of the most demiurgic television series in history will come to an end with a two hour finale entitled (appropriately enough) The End.  Since its inception on September 22, 2004, Lost has continued to delight, annoy and excogitate fans around the world.  Most viewers however are still a bit –...
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Luke, I am your father – now CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!

March 25, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Luke, I am your father – now CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!

And so it was that the ghost of the enlightened one, the Obi-Wan, warned the pupil, “Luke, don’t give into hate. That leads to the dark side.” Say what? Yes, there are people who worship the words of George Lucas.  There really is a Church of the Jedi.  In fact, the last census of...
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Watch “Earth Days” on Facebook

March 16, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Watch “Earth Days” on Facebook

If you’re on Facebook, then you have a green opportunity.  “Earth Days“, the official Selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival will make it’s debut on Facebook, April 11 at 8:00PM EST. An overview about the film from Wikipedia: Earth Days interweaves personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s...
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Dark side of the digital age

March 11, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Dark side of the digital age

When I was a child – back in the Stone Age – there were individual songs sold.  Actually it was two or more songs at a time thanks to the B-sides of 45rpm singles.  But these songs were chosen specifically by the band in conjunction with managers and record companies.  Then along came a...
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Living With Ed – Begley that is

March 7, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Living With Ed – Begley that is

CNN just posted a short interview with über-environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr.  Here’s an excerpt from the short Q&A about his show, “Living With Ed“. CNN: What do you hope to achieve with “Living with Ed”? Begley: To engage viewers with entertainment, then give them a “take-away” or two every show that will save them...
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Global Warming humor

February 15, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Global Warming humor

I have mentioned before – but it bears repeating over and over again – where will all the oil billionaires that are paying people to deny the existence of Climate Change and Global Warming live once they’ve completed their destruction of the planet?  I don’t care as long as they stay away from my...
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Photoshop Editorial

January 15, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Photoshop Editorial

I suggest everyone who is outraged at the debacle NBC has wrought on their late night schedule contact the asshole behind it all and tell him to Zuck off!  Jeff Zucker’s email address is jeff.zucker@nbc.com.   They get Conan O’Brien to uproot his family from New York and move to California and then he effectively...
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Dirt

January 14, 2010
By Robert Rouse
Dirt

Dirt, soil, earth, fertile loam, terra firma, no matter what you call it, it is as vital to life as any other part of the environment.  Unfortunately, we’ve treated it like … well, dirt! On April 20, PBS will air a documentary on the subject as part of their Independent Lens series.  The program...
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Music – it does a mind good (apologies to the dairy industry)

December 29, 2009
By Robert Rouse
Music – it does a mind good (apologies to the dairy industry)

I generated a list of the tunes (titles) on my mp3 player.  These are the songs I grew up with, lived with, etc, and even though I haven’t added all of Sheri’s music yet (a couple thousand more), the list is still pretty impressive with more than 6300 titles. There are a few songs...
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The 1960s

December 3, 2009
By Robert Rouse
The 1960s

I was thinking about which decade has brought about the most change since I was born, and no matter which way I crossed my T’s and dotted my I’s, I kept coming back to the first decade that I actually remember fairly vividly – the ’60s. There was so much going on during that...
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