While running some errands today, on the radio I caught a chunk of This American Life. Just how risky is taking too much acetaminophen? Listen and find out.
Author: DOuG pRATt
TV as you like it… for now
The Web site name TVonline.cc was registered this past February 2, by somebody in Iran — if the domain administrator information is to be believed — and the site supposedly originates in California, west of Reno, Nevada. Wait! Now it’s in Germany. I don’t know where the video I’m watching now is coming from. What’s the video? Last week’s installment of Breaking Bad.
This isn’t a Torrent site, and it’s offering free embedded videos of popular TV shows that play through Flash, like most everything else does in a Web browser. I don’t know how they’re getting their material, but the quality is excellent, even in full-screen. I can’t imagine that any of the programs have been licensed, and I have to wonder how long TVonline will last before it’s forced to shut down.
Google Calling
Google has produced a documentary about — huh? — the Clash. Okay, sure, what the heck. Denro saw them live in their prime. I saw the Ramones, but never the Clash. These guys were a full musical generation behind the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Cream, etc., and now they’re old men too. The three surviving band mates, anyway. Strummer’s been gone for over ten years.
The Clash biography that I have is Return of the Last Gang in Town, by Prue Bury’s friend Marcus Gray. To see the Clash as the angry young men they were, there’s the semi-documentary Rude Boy.
Screaming about streaming
Next February with be the 20th anniversary of when I first connected to the Internet from home by dialup modem, and yet being online still seems like a new thing to me, maybe because streaming media is still in flux. Netflix started its streaming video service in 2007, and the turmoil in TV land continues with Aereo, the DVR in the Cloud. It’s taking way too long for broadcasters and cable TV providers to adjust to online services that challenge their out-of-date business models.
Covering the boys before Bieber
Ann Moses was the right girl at the right time in the right place, as an editor for the popular teen magazine Tiger Beat.
Denro says this about Ann.
Her writing was friendly and enthusiastic, fact-based and not sensational, so the readers saw her as a pal who was “on the inside” and gave them access to cool things without playing up her own personality, thereby not generating any hate or envy.
I’ve added I used to be… Ann Moses to my Links list. Her posts confirm what Dennis says about Ann’s writing. I would love to see a complete collection of reprinted Tiger Beat articles by Ann.
Party with K3!
K3’s new video is a dance party number called Eya Hoya! To watch it in full-screen HD you can click here. Kristel says hi! 🙂
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