Regular followers of Unmuzzled Thoughts have heard me blabbing that one day I’m going to publish an essay explaining why those who loved the sitcom Seinfeld should theoretically also love the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. Well, that day has come. I finally gathered my thoughts, supported them with evidence (sifting …
A couple of weeks ago, USA Today‘s pop culture blog featured a guest author, Denise Du Vernay, a lecturer in Humanities and Communications at Milwaukee School of Engineering and co-author of The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield (she also tweets). For her guest …
Last summer, the husband and I watched the entire series of Prison Break in roughly 5 weeks. After all was said and done, I had come to appreciate the tightly constructed narrative of the first season and characterization of Robert Knepper‘s disturbing T-Bag (right) but found myself rather irritated by …
My third column for Flow TV is now online (in case you didn’t catch the first two, they considered David Letterman’s sex scandal and star image and the working-class male in ABC’s The Middle).
Here’s a taste of my latest thoughts, this time on Glee and why the first season feels …
The aim of the Hollywood star autobiographer is twofold and tension-filled: she must break and preserve her star image. In other words, she should reveal, Ruth Amossy maintains, both “her intimate self” (i.e., juicy personal details) and “the dream factory manufactured object” (i.e., the stereotyped image that lures fans) (676). …
Toledo, Ohio has turned up in the national media at least three times in the last month. First, Toledo-native Crystal Bowersox brought attention to “The Glass City” during her stint on American Idol. [1] Second, major news channels reported on Northwest Ohio after a tornado destroyed 100 homes in the …
