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I have a new Flow column up today about binging on television. Here's a snip: "As much as any narrative medium, television afford...

As always, at the end of the year one has trouble remembering anything that happened in the early months. I don't know if I even saw any...

I have a column in the new issue of Flow about the new statue of Arthur Fonzarelli here in Milwaukee, WI. This gave me the opportunity to ...

As usual, television has been filling my late evenings. This fall so far has been remarkable for offering so many genres of programming to ...

Long time no blog! A semester has begun. Today was cool and rainy in Milwaukee, summer no more. I am teaching two courses: Intro to Mass M...

The bunny in Donnie Darko, a DVD cult film . I've been writing for the past few weeks about indie films that make prominent formal play ...

Mad Men's first season has just been released on DVD and the show returns to AMC for a second season July 27th. I have a longest-blog-po...

Gary Hustwit's 2007 documentary about the midcentury sans-serif typeface Helvetica seems at first blush like it might turn out to be o...

I am trying to work on a book and find myself drawn away from it by a number of things, especially the constantly changing, updating, world-...

Here are a few fragments of the historical reception of Sesame Street that I came across in some research I have been doing on the history o...

Now that my semester is ending I am leaving teaching behind for a few months of writing, but I wanted to blog here about something I have be...

Everyone who watches it knows on some level that The Hills is both real and fake, authentic and inauthentic, true and false, fictional and a...