Collapsible Popeye and one dead Jesus

Saturday afterthought.
I want to talk really quickly about Prop 8. But first I have to mention food.
I know I drone on a lot about health and nutrition. I do, there’s no denying it. The reason I’m so passionate, though, is because I know there’s a kind of karma at work here. Body karma, you might call it. In [...]

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Psssst! This way! Keep your head down.
Forgive me if I talk in whispers, but this is a big day on TV Swami. Because today we’re starting a rebellion. Oh yes.
Just a small one. Nothing too alarming. But one that could affect significantly people’s health and wellbeing for years to come if they dare to [...]

Please Enter. The totally unqualified doctor is “in.”

After posting on this blog for a couple of months now, I’m learning certain things.
I’m learning, for instance, what topics kinda fall flat, generating only modest interest, and which ones go up like a bottle rocket, drawing massive traffic. As  far as I can tell, there are four major ratings-busters:
a) Spanking. Look, there I go again! By merely doing [...]

Is it wrong to steal a celebrity’s fruit?

I ask, only because our prestigious (I’m told) and extremely popular (I’m guessing) actress neighbor Rachel Bilson has an ornamental Japanese fruit tree in her front yard that overhangs the sidewalk.
Every April, the tree is a prodigious producer of yellowy, rubbery fruit called loquats, most of which drop to the ground, turn bad, and get squished. So, as a [...]

Adam, Kris, Simon, and Ryan – sure. But Paul?

Something weird happened last night on American Idol. Well, two weird things, actually, if you count Adam Lambert losing.
Kris Allen was clearly the weaker singer and waaaaay less charismatic and talented. In fact, a couple of his songs on Tuesday night were embarrassingly lackluster, leaving the judges a little short on positive things to say. [...]

Why doctors will never find a cure for cancer. You read it here first.

In reviewing Farrah’s Story last night on the BBC, there’s one thing I wanted to say, but couldn’t. Couldn’t, because if I had we’d have received a flood of complaints from doctors and other people who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I’d have been reprimanded, if not fired.
By the way, if you appreciate what follows, [...]

So not all TV executives are idiots after all!

The best news I’ve received all year arrived over the weekend.
Here it is. In bold.
ABC has renewed Better Off Ted.
My favorite comedy in a long, long while is coming back for a second season.
D’you know how excited that makes me? Very. That’s how excited.
So we can all sleep easy in our beds tonight – once [...]

A Casual Friday treat. To you with love.

It’s Casual Friday here on TV Swami.  Where I come from, that means you quit work early – in my case before you’ve written anything – and do something more fun instead. And because we live in a world where everything’s take take take, I thought I’d buck the trend by giving for a change.
TV viewers in Britain are [...]

Starving radio guy makes movie

No blog today.
What d’you mean, why not? I’m busy.
But I should just mention that my controversial little movie short Inside Out, about the two weeks I spent in January not eating food, is now showing in two film festivals: the Urban Suburban Film Festival in Philadelphia in mid June, and this weekend – May 17th – in [...]

Bigotry Lite

I know, before you say it – Carrie Prejean is a stupid, vacuous, delusional young woman. I was going to say bitch, but Perez Hilton beat me to it.
More than that:  a stupid, delusional, vacuous young woman whose show of outrage and cynical tears at a press conference yesterday was so preposterous that it made David Shuster on MSNBC [...]