Old is the New New

Old is the New New

Entries Tagged as 'TV'

Secede, Suppress, Survive

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Not especially funny as Onion articles go, but it actually could be a TV show: New Alternate Reality Series on Island Where South Won Civil War.

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Tags: Alternate History · Asides · TV

Alternate Holiday Specials

December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

John Scalzi calls them “The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials,” but they read like alternate TV history to me.

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Tags: Alternate History · Asides · TV

The New Frontier

September 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I did not see the new G.I. Joe movie this summer…

…but I love the direction they took with the art direction and character designs.

Edit: Artist Dave Perillo’s site.

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Tags: Eye Candy · TV

Old News: Philo Philes

September 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

As soon as I said, “But nobody can name the inventor of television,” the class shouted in unison: “Philo!”

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Tags: Books · Old News · TV · Technology

Channel Ocho

November 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Or, television without context. Warning: may be creepy. Will be weird.

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Tags: Asides · TV

The Coffee Achievers

May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Is this real? Bowie, Vonnegut, Pat Benatar, and Cicely Tyson shilling coffee in 1984? Really? For real? Is it? (Hat tip.)

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Tags: Asides · Found History · TV

History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age

April 25th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.

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Tags: Favorites · Gilded Age · TV · Technology

The Bochco Code

April 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Painkillers, hallucinations, and Hill Street Blues.

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Tags: Favorites · Old Blog · TV

Blame Canada

December 23rd, 2004 · 3 Comments

Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · TV

Philo Philes

November 17th, 2002 · 9 Comments

Philo T. Farnsworth and the invention of television.

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Tags: Books · Favorites · Geek History · LiveJournal · TV · Technology