Thanksgiving Weekend, Nov. 25 thru Nov. 30
I’m posting this a little early since shortly after it goes up, I am turning my computer off and hope to only turn it on again this weekend for the fun of it.  So, as I noted yesterday, this is going to be one lo-o-o-o-ong post, but you’ll be ready for the entire weekend. Thursday, obviously, there’s some parade action (CBS and NBC should both be carrying the Macy’s parade) and some football.  But TVOne is featuring a lovely little film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella that stars Brandy and Whitney Houston, at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., worth knowing about if the kids are getting a little too wired before and/or after dinner.  During

The No Post Post, Tuesday, Nov. 24
I’m not posting today.  I mean, this is obviously a post, but since the show (Holly and Hal Moose: Our Uplifiting Adventure, airing tonight at 7 p.m. on ABC Family) turned out to be so unutterably gag-inducingly bad and since I try not to spend my precious time writing about junk and since this is just shy of a commercial for the Build-A-Bear Workshop folks (Holly and Hal are their characters), I’m trying not to write about it. And, yes, they sent me a Holly Moose.  The show still sucks.  It’s utterly lacking in logic and filled with plot holes you could drive Santa’s sleigh through, not to mention so impossibly sweet you can’t help but be tempted

Find My Family and Surviving the Holidays, Monday, Nov. 23
Barf bags – check. Insulin shots – check. The onslaught is here.  As of Thursday, we face the official beginning of the holiday season, which means endless goopy holiday specials for me.  Thank God for Lewis Black and the History Channel.  The show is Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black, airing at 8 p.m., and I’m warning you right now – it is not entirely family safe.  There are quite a few jokes about the holidays and self-medicating. But the two-hour special is a good overview of the American holiday season from Thanksgiving through New Year’s, including Channukah (and how to pronounce it – something that’s a little

Technical Issues and America Before Columbus, Weekend, Nov. 20-22
I don’t know if you noticed, but yesterday’s post went up awfully late.  For whatever reason, I hit publish and the post didn’t go online.  Hmmmm.  I’m having this issue with another blog using the same software, so I don’t know how much is me spacing and how much is the result of a glitch in the software. So I get to spend my weekend messing with software.  In the meantime, you can watch America Before Columbus, on The National Geographic Channel, Sunday night at 8 p.m.  It’s not a bad special about what the American hemisphere was like before Christopher Columbus set foot here.  The first half compares the European and American societies

Mars: Making the New Earth or, uh… Something Else, Thursday, Nov. 19
So, I’m watching Mars: Making the New Earth, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel at 9 p.m., and I can’t help wondering which of the four “experts” talking in the film I should consider mainstream enough to believe they know what they’re talking about. The show is about terra-forming the planet Mars into an environment that we humans can live in – which would largely involve warming up the red rock enough to create an atmosphere, then getting plants to grow there.  It’s part of the National Geographic Channel’s Expedition Week, which has been going on since Sunday, but I haven’t seen any expeditions so far that ha