ARGH - Joss Whedon-related ARG - & me with no time

On Monday, a new thread appeared on the unfiction forums pointing out a trailhead for a new game that seems to be linked to the Fox series Dollhouse. Given the percentage of librarians who are big damn fans of Joss Whedon + my obvious fascination with Alternate Reality Games the odds were very good [...]

Where the WGA strike intersects with undergraduate education in my head

When I saw a note in the New York Times recently saying that CBS is going to bring in some Canadian series to fill the void left by the WGA strike, I thought, “now there’s a good idea - Canadian TV rules.”
Which may not always be true, but some of my most obsessive television viewing [...]

Reality TV without the TV part

If you gave Make Me a Supermodel a Try just because my sister was on it (thanks John!) and you’ve noticed that she hasn’t so much been on it in the last two episodes - at least they gave her a blog on the Bravo website, so you can get some sense of what it [...]

2 things I am watching during the writers’ strike