TWOP is going to be recapping Generation Kill, which I find surprising — given the mini-series-ness of the production.
Athenae hooked me up with this news a week or so ago. So why has it taken me so long to post it? Is it because some folks have grown kind of “meh, TWOP sux” lately, especially [...]
July 10, 2008
Categories: America, Athenae, Blogs, David Simon, GKillHBO, HLOTS, Virgotex . . Author: virgotex . Comments: 8 Comments
Spoilers for the latest, beneath.
March 10, 2008
Categories: Athenae, Season 5, Spoiler, The Media . . Author: athenaefd . Comments: 14 Comments
In case you’re wondering…
Nor have we got her locked up in a vacant somewhere. She’s just very busy lately being famous and dealing with the release of her new book, It Doesn’t End with Us, the Story of the Daily Cardinal. (Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Heritage Books)
More here about scheduled [...]
February 20, 2008
Categories: Athenae, The Media . . Author: virgotex . Comments: No Comments
So there’s these two fish in a tank, and one fish says to the other one, “I can’t drive this thing.”
Seriously, I know one joke, and that’s it. I forget who taught it to me. I’m sure it was funnier when he said it.
February 4, 2008
Categories: Athenae, Characters, Season 5, The Media . . Author: athenaefd . Comments: 4 Comments
Simon in the WaPo today:
At the moment when the Internet was about to arrive, most big-city newspapers — having survived the arrival of television and confident in their advertising base — were neither hungry, nor worried, nor ambitious. They were merely assets to their newspaper chains. Profits were taken, and coverage did not [...]
January 21, 2008
Categories: Athenae, David Simon, Season 5, The Media . . Author: athenaefd . Comments: 6 Comments
Spoilers layin’ in the cut.
January 13, 2008
Categories: Athenae, Season 5 . . Author: athenaefd . Comments: 3 Comments
I wanted to pull out something Laura said in a comment here:
Very few bosses in my 20-year career stood their ground to protect journalism. They wanted to protect their reputations and their pets, and the kind of journalism that enhanced their repuations. 2) Yet there were, in fact, Gus Hayneses, and I’ll name one name: [...]
January 9, 2008
Categories: Athenae, Season 5, The Media . . Author: athenaefd . Comments: 2 Comments