2013 Favorites — Television

It’s a hard thing, you know, reflecting on favorite television shows in a Sherlock-less year, but I suppose there were still some pretty good offerings in 2013, tube-wise. Sort of a surprise hit to me, I thought The Americans (FX) was the strongest show of the year. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys portray Elizabeth and…

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Tough Luck

One of my favorite things to do, when I became of appropriate age, was to go see the horseraces at Garden State Park, the racetrack near where I grew up in New Jersey. Seeing the horses, analyzing their histories, the trainers and jockeys, it was all very easy to get swept up in the excitement…

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2011 Favorites: Television

I know, I know, 2011 was SO last week, so I feel a little late to the game with this post, but what can you do? Thinking about it, I believe that this is a really good era for watching tv. Not just because I think there is more quality programming being made, but also…

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No Dancing, by George

There must be pigs flying over a frosty ground in Hades today, because George RR Martin announced that his long-awaited book A Dance With Dragons will be published in July of this year, though “long-awaited” may be too kind of an understatement, I suppose.  For the uninitiated, Martin is the author of one of the…

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Winter Is Coming…

… to HBO! Wow – in what only can get a WOW from me, HBO has agreed to explore the possibility of bringing the epic fantasy “Song of Ice and Fire” to the small screen. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin Not as a movie.Not as a mini-series.But as a series of mini-series. Holy…

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