Monthly Archives: January 2008
Season Finale: The Amazing Race – Season 12, Episode 11
“The Final Push” January 20th, 2008 [Looking for the finale of Season 13 airing in December 2008? Well, Cultural Learnings still has you covered: click her for all the details!] If not for Viva Laughlin’s early exit from CBS’ Fall … Continue reading
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Friday Night Lights – “Who Do You Think You Are?”
“Who Do You Think You Are?” January 18th, 2008 While I am certainly not overly antagonistic towards the most recent episode of Friday Night Lights, I can’t help but ask whether or not the titular query should be posed to … Continue reading
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Cultural Learnings Celebrates its First Anniversary
One year ago today, I started Cultural Learnings. This sounds really startling when I say it aloud, but over the past month or so I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ve been doing this for an entire year. … Continue reading
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Cultural Listening: The Watchers Podcast
This will be a brief post only due to a bit of a time crunch, but on Monday evening I was the honoured guest of Dave, Devindra and Adam on The Watchers Podcast. While the podcast is mostly focused on … Continue reading
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Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles – “Gnothi Seauton”
“Gnothi Seauton” January 14th, 2007 Last night, I was (attempting) to take part in a podcast which I will have more on sometime today or tomorrow. Due to some microphone issues, chances are that my contributions will be limited – … Continue reading
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This Ain’t Pandora’s Box – The (Non-)Impact of the Jericho Screener Leak
Have you ever felt that your nose was just a faucet that wouldn’t shut off? It’s a bizarre and rather grotesque image, but “snot faucet” most aptly describes my weekend experience. It was unpleasant, sure, but by the end of … Continue reading
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Brothers & Sisters: “The Feast of Epiphany”
“The Feast of Epiphany” January 13th, 2007 In my current insomnia, brought on by a mutating cold that just won’t go away without a fight, I figured I’d take the time to comment on last night’s episode of Brothers & … Continue reading
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The “Winners” and “Losers” of the 2008 Golden Globes Awards
Last night, the 2008 Golden Globes were a ludicrous and fascinating experiment of NBC’s incompetence (Sepinwall tears them a new one here) and a sense that what we were watching was memorable not due to any of the winners but … Continue reading
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The Amazing Race – Season 12, Episode 10 – And Then There was Three…
“Sorry, guys, ‘I’m not happy to see you’” January 13th, 2008 There’s no suspense in the opening this week: Phil flat out tells us that someone is going to be eliminated tonight. It’s time to narrow us down to the … Continue reading
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And the Winner is…The 2008 Golden Globe Awards LiveBlog
9:00pm: Welcome to the “Golden Globes Winners Special,” which is just a terrible name for this thing. Also of note: someone from NBC is in Nova Scotia (I, for the record, am also in Nova Scotia), which means that nominee … Continue reading
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