I am currently binge-watching a show called “Outlander” on Starz. I’m late to the game on this one. It is in its second season and has legions of loyal fans. It takes place in the lush and magnificent Highlands of… Read More ›
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NOTES FROM THE HOLODECK
For a long time, I followed writing prompts. I liked the challenge of finding something to say about a random topic. And I was interested to see the commonalities and differences between my thoughts and everyone else’s. Lately, though, I want… Read More ›
TRUMPED: REALITY, REALITY SHOWS, AND REAL TV – TOM CURLEY
It’s Tuesday again. Surely a super Tuesday because this year, all Tuesdays have been super. To honor the day, I’m rerunning my favorite yet still relevant political post by Mr. Thomas Curley, News Guy Supreme and Chief Editorial Satirist at Serendipity. Ellin and I were on… Read More ›
MILLION-DOLLAR MEMORIES
Garry and I both grew up in New York in the 1950s. That was before cable. It even proceeded UHF. Television was black and white. We had seven channels: 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), and 7 (ABC), the network flagship stations. They remain the… Read More ›
GERIATRIC COMEDY BY ELLIN CURLEY
My new favorite show to binge watch these days is “Grace and Frankie” on Netflix. The cast is amazing – Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston in the leads. The supporting cast, particularly the four adult children,… Read More ›
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE US
In this insane political year, when many of us are wondering if Donald Trump is the Beast of the Apocalypse, the angriest controversy on the Internet is over the loss of Stana Katic (Kate Beckett) on ABC’s “Castle.” It’s huge. Gigantic. Cataclysmic…. Read More ›
TECHNICOLOR DREAMS AND GENETIC NIGHTMARES – BY TOM CURLEY
A few weeks ago my old friend Ben Taylor sent me a very interesting link to a story about archiving technologies . The story was about how all of our storage media eventually degrades. Film, tape, CDs, DVDs, flash drives,… Read More ›
MEMORY, MEMORIES AND WHERE THE HELL ARE MY KEYS? – by TOM CURLEY
First off, this isn’t a blog about “Senior Moments”. You know, like when you get up and go into another room and the second you enter the other room you can’t for the life of you remember why you’re there…. Read More ›
TRUMPED: REALITY, REALITY SHOWS, AND REAL TV – TOM CURLEY
Ellin and I were on a brief ski trip a couple of weeks ago up in Vermont. We learned three things. We are still not too old to ski. Gravity is a harsh mistress. It’s getting harder and harder to… Read More ›
GREAT COP SHOW MOMENT OF THE WEEK
RIZZOLI & ISLES Set in Boston, it’s Angie Harmon as the hot Boston detective and Sasha Alexander as her BFF, aka the Medical Examiner. Tonight’s episode: A cop is murdered in Maine. The crime is probably connected to a series of crimes in… Read More ›
WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACIES
After many years of not watching “The X Files,” Garry and I ran out of stuff to watch. So … we started watching the series. Now, maybe a dozen episodes in, I have some thoughts on conspiracies and secrets. Has anyone ever… Read More ›
THE NEVER-ENDING PLOT – TO BE CONTINUED … ?
I hate it when one of my favorite weekly TV dramas decides to forgo the “new story each week” format and go in for one of those seemingly endless “story arcs”. It usually involves a particularly sinister person or group… Read More ›
PLAY NICE AND PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL
It’s one of the first things every mother teaches her kid. Or should. “Play nice. Don’t hit little Jimmy with that shovel. Don’t take Ellen’s doll. Play nice or other children won’t want to play with you.” Apparently, mom’s lesson went… Read More ›
MOZART IN MY LIVING ROOM – ELLIN CURLEY
My husband and I just finished binge watching the second season of “Mozart In the Jungle” on Amazon Prime. It’s about the people in a New York City orchestra – the musicians, conductors, Board of the Orchestra which has to finance… Read More ›
THE GIBBS BINGE
Netflix binge watching is a happy past time for more and more folks these days. You can lose an entire afternoon or evening watching one series. It’s like when we were younger and would stay up til dawn to finish… Read More ›
WHAT’S THAT THING YOU’RE WEARING?
“How come Gibbs is wearing a coat in Arizona in the summer?” I was talking to Garry. It was an NCIS rerun. We watch a lot of reruns, though this new fall season of TV is shaping up better than… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 