pop quiz: summer TV

Hey kids! Pop quiz! Guess which of these titles is not an actual television show coming directly into your living room this very summer! 1) Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal 2) The Baby Borrowers 3) I Survived a Japanese Game Show 4) I Love Money 5) Greatest American Dog 6) Mobile Home Disaster 7) … more…

what I’m looking forward to on summer TV

Oh noes! Lost is finished till Ben Linus knows when! Battlestar Galactica ends tonight till 2009! Doctor Who is almost over till Christmas! What am I gonna watch all summer? Turns out, quite a bit, actually. Here’s what I’m looking forward to: Saving Grace (returns July 14 on TNT): Grace talks tough, when she’s not … more…

The Incredible Hulk (review)

It sounds like praising with faint damns to say that Edward Norton and Tim Roth are so much more interesting to watch onscreen than their cartoon alter egos are. I mean, duh, right?

MaryAnnJohanson.com is up and running

Ooo, didja see that “crossposted at MaryAnnJohanson.com” business at the end of this post? Been meaning to tell ya all week: MaryAnnJohanson.com is up and running. What does that mean? Well, for one thing, it means my long-neglected blog Geek Philosophy is no more… though all the postings from there can be found at MaryAnnJohanson.com … more…

yes, I’ve been skiving off again…

…and wasting time writing Doctor Who fanfic. Just posted the third installment of my latest opus. I must confess that part of why I’ve been so consumed with writing this tale is that I forgot how much I love writing fiction. This endeavor has really reminded me what I’ve been missing during the break of … more…

please, for the last time, I am NOT Scarlett Johansson

And I don’t have a crush on the Democratic presidential nominee: The sultry actress is amazed that Barack Obama has time to return her personal and adoring e-mails with ‘thoughtful’ and more than a brief line or two messages despite his busy schedule. But he does, often, with fan messages of his own to the … more…

good news from the cutting edge

Netflix has sold out of those new settop boxes that will let you download movies instantly and watch them on your TV. And DVRs are actually making people watch more network television, at a time when the networks have been fretting about bleeding viewers to cable. Hopefully someone is paying attention to these trends. More … more…