• Books - Clan: McTiVo

    The Unreserved Pleasures of Reading

    Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain , by Anthony Bourdain If you’ve ever watched No Reservations, a travel and food show hosted by Anthony Bourdain, then you have “Tony’s” voice in your head as you read this book, the one that made him famous enough to be made host of his own show(s). He has a trademark writer’s voice, too – a little too cool for his own good, but genuinely racked-out sounding and with a certainhardcore urbanity and something that sounds like a foodie-sensualist’s version of Beat Poetry on his summing-up monologues. I’m a fast reader, so it’s not unusual…

  • Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Dresden Files Nears End of Season

    SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM The Dresden Files, based on Jim Butcher's series of novels, follows the adventures of Chicago detective and wizard Harry Dresden. So far this season, Harry's relationship with the High Council, a powerful group that oversees the magical community, has been tenuous since they suspect he used dark magic to kill his uncle. The final episode of the season will be "Second City," which will air April 15. Simkins promised that it will not be a cliffhanger. "While that does work for a lot of shows, we…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Hot Off The Presses - SciFi/Fantasy

    Samurai, Ninja, and Wannabe Immortals In The News

      I've noticed several news stories lately with a similar theme… as a Highlander fan of long standing, these kinds of things always catch my eye. Once upon a time, we fans used to groan and say "Oh, no, not again, brace yourselves for the backlash," but the media never made the connection we did between "samurai sword wielding man wreaks mayhem" and an obscure cult action movie/syndicated TV series. Featuring a samurai sword man wreaking mayhem, but for good, not evil. Charges expected in samurai sword slaying Man arrested after Highway 4 car chase  Police shootings usually ruled OK…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Amazing Race: All Stars

    It’s that show again, and David’s doing his best to hunker down and ignore the hollering from my end of the couch. Rileycat has run into the other room, looking for invisible Martian cats (owing to the “meowing” sound effects .wav David found the other night) so it’s time to watch the season premiere of Amazing Race, featuring a bunch of “All Stars” from seasons past. Kevin and Drew! Rob and Ambuh. BoOOOOOOO!!!111!!! Uchenna and Joyce. Meh. They won before, and I’m not into them. Dustin and Kandice MEH!!! They don’t deserve this. NOT All-Star material. Joe and Bill. Gentlemen,…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Funnies - SciFi/Fantasy

    Norman Lovett – RIP or something like it

    Norman Lovett – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This "obit" from the Wikipedia section dealing with the long-running British sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" deserves to be left "up," in spite of one or two minor factual errors. Also, it's triffic. I hope no pretentious accuracy-obsessed smeghead volunteer editors mess with it:  Sadly, Norman was killed during the 2006 Dimension Jump. During a question and answer session, he had spent three hours giving reasons why having three more lines in 'Back in the Red' would have made the entire season better. Enraged at how bitter and annoying he was, the audience stormed…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Life On Mars Returns in 2007

    BBC – Drama – Life On Mars – Series 2 The excellent BBC cop show about a modern day police detective who has some sort of accident in 2006 and wakes up in 1973, as a cop, in that very shaggy, very “me decade” decade returns sometime this year on BBC One. There’s no telling how long until it shows up on BBC America, though, which leaves me feeling a bit glum. That reminds me – I really need to check out BBCA and see if I need to ginger up TiVo a bit. Arcade Fire & David Bowie: Life…