Category Archives: Television

If you’re wholly intolerant to science fiction, adult situations, or raw language, then Misfits is not for you. The show could most readily be described as a fantastic hybridization of the BBC show Skins* and NBC’s strong-starting but fizzle-finishing Heroes. Six young people of an indeterminate age are assigned to the same community service detail as punishment for their various acts of criminal delinquency. During their first assignment, a strange thunderstorm pops up and blankets the area first with boulder-sized hail, then with ominous lightning. All five youths and their supervisor are struck by said lightning, but survive unharmed, if not unchanged. This is, like any superhero origin story, the part of the premise that you just go with.

With so many choices of channel and programming, it’s easy to feel like great television is getting harder and harder to find. I don’t think that’s really the case. Instead, I think that the gap between really awful television and truly spectacular television has actually widened. TV has been a wasteland of shlock for most of my lifetime, but since the late ’90s and the advent of “reality” programs, a trip to the icky bottom of the barrel now requires …

If this were real, I’d pay good money to see it. “Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!”

This is a repost of a story on 2strokebuzz, but I just enjoyed this so much I wanted to share it here.

Jeremy Clarkson being the motorcycle curmudgeon that he is, even he’s won over by the end of it. Honestly I struggle to come up with many places that’d be more appropriate or adventurous to see by scooter. I may have to add Vietnam to my own list of 2-wheel destinations. My list for now includes:

All the national parks …