Tag: Popular culture

The Wire 2

Slate is hosting a fascinating discussion of my favorite TV show, The Wire. I’ve extolled the virtues of the show here, but not with this

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Friday Night Lights II

I’ve found another fan of Friday Night Lights the new NBC show on Tuesday nights. Slate has a glowing review today. Troy Patterson writes: “If

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Friday Night Lights

A new television show, based loosely on Buzz Bissinger’s marvelous book, made its debut on NBC last night. I thought Friday Night Lights was pretty

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Get Wired

Some day when I am in good paen-writing form, I will extol the many virtues of my new favorite television show, The Wire. It is

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Elective reading

When it comes to engaging your propensity for intellectually enriching procrastination, there’s no place quite like Arts and Letters Daily. A few morsels from today’s

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Changing the subject

I am in Day One of attempting to be what church people (and probably therapists) refer to as a NON-ANXIOUS PRESENCE. (Do all those upper-case

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