Posts Tagged ‘Lost’
Summertime Blogging
Posted by: annieem on: May 26, 2009
The Academic Blogosphere (the blogging world in which I live) seems to go on semi-hiatus once classes end—or at least once they end for you semester system schools. We on the quarter system are still plugging away for 2 more weeks. Interestingly, I’ve found few community college instructors who are bloggers (as is also true with [...]
Creepy Storytellers
Posted by: annieem on: May 12, 2009
My husband has been giggling incessantly over Michael Emerson, who plays Benjamin Linus on our favorite addictive tv show Lost, reading “Little Boy Blue” on Jimmy Fallon the other night. Emerson takes just a few seconds to fall into character, and he nails it: diabolical Ben reading a children’s tale.
Hubby then asks the following question: Who is creepier? [...]
Mad Men: Maddeningly Good TV
Posted by: annieem on: January 3, 2009
Readers who are also TV viewers tend to avoid bragging about being up on the latest American Idol season, but they have no problem discussing with strangers the intimate plot and character details of shows like The Wire or The Sopranos. Adam Sternbergh writes about “Quality Show Fatigue” in the Dec. 8th, 2008 issue of [...]
