Changing Channels

Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. That’s the best way to describe the dance troupe Silhouettes, which appears to be a top-10, at least, finisher on this season’s edition of America’s Got Talent. As impressive as their routine was Wednesday night on NBC … and oh, it was quite impressive … their behind the scenes…

It’s a lot to put on a young man, but Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg is THE  future of Major League Baseball. The 23-year-old also owns part of its present, as well, judging by Tuesday night’s outing, shown at least in part on the MLB Network. Despite the ongoing exciting race between the Yankees and…

Let’s see … we have reality shows on obvious subjects like dating and competitions for money. Then there are the less obvious topics like storage, couponing, cupcakes and the like. Are there any remaining topics? A few, perhaps … like these: TOP THIS! Hard to believe there aren’t reality shows about pizza. There are so…

It’s almost funny on those rare occasions I watch MSNBC seeing the hosts rip into Republicans and the Republican party. Ummm folks one small problem … it’s Democrats that control both the Senate and the White House. The channel’s latest hire, Al Sharpton, changes his playbook about as often as my father changed his lesson…

It would be better if I noticed more important things. And perhaps I shouldn’t even blog about this … but here goes. Bayer recently began airing an ad for a new extra strength formula product supposed to provide relief within minutes off ingestion. The company uses the product developer, or head of the team, Dr.…

Russ Mitchell was on to something big, and small, when the anchor ended the CBS Evening News with a segment on “extreme couponing” Saturday night. Due to the rough economy, using coupons has become en vogue again as people look to save a few bucks, or more on groceries. Even to the point where some…

I was ticked when AT&T U-Verse recently removed ESPN3D from its programming block. Oh … I was ticked and still am, in fact. That channel was the main reason I spent a few hundred more bucks to get a 3DTV, after all. The company’s reasoning was that there were not enough subscribers to the $10…

The NFL got its labor situation settled just in time. Not just for the season, but with plenty of time to air ads intended to create or reestablish goodwill with its fans. You have probably seen the ads already, where a football gets passed around from all kinds of ordinary folks and eventually winds up…

I have been able to brush the age thing aside for a long time, but I officially became OLD Wednesday. That’s the same day Alyssa Milano gave birth to Milo Thomas Bugliari, a seven pound, 19 inch-long baby boy. After all, I grew up with “Samantha”, her character’s name, on Who’s The Boss. She was…

I am guilty, I admit it. I often watch Today on NBC in the mornings and neglect to give Good Morning America a look. I intentionally switched things up Friday morning and watched GMA. There was a great deal of smiling going on, particularly from co-host Robin Roberts, entertainment reporter Lara Spencer and weatherman Sam…

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