Articles warning about the dangers of too much screen time for children overlook one of the dangerous side effects of letting kids watch a lot of TV shows. Children's TV theme songs can very easily become earworms that keep playing in parent's heads hours or even days after the last viewing of that particular show. … Continue reading Eight children’s TV theme songs that become parental earworms
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Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the 2013 Tony Awards! Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards! It's like Christmas in June and again September! I firmly believe that Neil Patrick Harris is the best award show host and should be invited to host everything. I know that a lot of people are … Continue reading Ten great Neil Patrick Harris award show moments
If you are a fan of AMC's Mad Men and you don't read Tom & Lorenzo you are missing out on half the fun. Tom and Lorenzo are fashion bloggers. They also do recaps of a number of TV shows, but for Mad Men they go one step further. In addition to posting Mad Men … Continue reading Mad for Mad Style: Why AMC Mad Men fans should read Tom & Lorenzo
We've been thinking about cutting cable. We just don't watch much TV that isn't on Netflix or Amazon anymore. (Exceptions include Game of Thrones and Mad Men, which are both starting again soon meaning cable is staying for at least a few more months.) It's hard for me to believe how little TV I watch … Continue reading List 34: Favorite cancelled TV shows (theme songs and trailers)
I posted a video to Twitter and Facebook yesterday, but it is too good not to share some more. In Wednesday's debate the most specific way that Mitt Romney indicated he would cut the deficit was to eliminate funding for public television. This is absurd mostly because PBS makes up such a tiny portion of … Continue reading Mister Rogers Rebuts Romney’s Proposed PBS Funding Cuts (43 Years Ago)