RIP Lionel Blair

It’s not Harp Lager. It’s much funnier.    Mind you, I watched this to remember Lionel today. You may also like The minutiæ of 2011 History of the 2010s: a look back at the decade that was Finding the heart on Top Gear again More TV Dregs, please The changing accent of Gillian Anderson Searching […]

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Forced to take prime-time nostalgia trips

‘There’s an old Polish proverb …’ I believe it’s ‘Reality television can’t stop the motorways in Warsaw from getting icy.’   I’ve always known what sort of telly I liked, and often that was at odds with what broadcasters put on. In the 1970s, my tastes weren’t too dissimilar from the general public’s, but as […]

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Remarks on the typography of Star Wars

Star Wars is in my feed in a big way. To get up to speed on the film series, I had to start with the memorable theme by John Williams. Thanks, Bill and Paul.    And who better to describe the plot than someone else in the science-fiction world, Doctor Who?    Seriously though, I […]

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Not quite a remake, but similar

I saw the première episode of No Ordinary Family, plus a bit of the second, and I couldn’t help but think of this:    Some folks fly to a strange place, have a plane crash, come back with special powers. One of them is an attractive blonde woman.    Where it differs is that one […]

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