by jaybushman January 16, 2010
Rob Lowe was wearing this great shirt on the Tonight Show a few nights ago. It’s a riff on the famous Benjamin Franklin Join Or Die engraving from the American Revolution, but instead of the individual segments of the snake being the colonies, they are the boroughs of Manhattan. If you embiggen the photo, you can clearly see the B.X. for the Bronx, Q.N. for Queens and M. for Manhattan, with the obscured head and tail as Brooklyn and Staten Island. I want one, but I can’t find this shirt online anywhere. We must band together to find it - we must Join, Or Die. The t-shirt quest I mean. Join the t-shirt quest. Or, um, die. OK, I’ve strained the metaphor. P.S. Most of the chatter online I’ve found about the shirt seem to assume it’s a demonstration of right-wing support. It’s obviously not. So all the wingnuts who got excited and thought Sam Frickin’ Seaborn was with them should pipe down.

Rob Lowe was wearing this great shirt on the Tonight Show a few nights ago. It’s a riff on the famous Benjamin Franklin Join Or Die engraving from the American Revolution, but instead of the individual segments of the snake being the colonies, they are the boroughs of Manhattan. If you embiggen the photo, you can clearly see the B.X. for the Bronx, Q.N. for Queens and M. for Manhattan, with the obscured head and tail as Brooklyn and Staten Island.

I want one, but I can’t find this shirt online anywhere. We must band together to find it - we must Join, Or Die. The t-shirt quest I mean. Join the t-shirt quest. Or, um, die. OK, I’ve strained the metaphor.


P.S. Most of the chatter online I’ve found about the shirt seem to assume it’s a demonstration of right-wing support. It’s obviously not. So all the wingnuts who got excited and thought Sam Frickin’ Seaborn was with them should pipe down.


by jaybushman November 7, 2009

Greatest Moments In Television History Ever, OK?

As part of this ongoing series, I’ll be posting a lot of clips from The West Wing because, well, it’s the frickin’ WEST WING, people.  But this one may be my favorite of all-time.  The President yells at God. In the National Cathedral. IN LATIN. Who could ask for anything more?


We Watch TV, and So Should You.

by bronwen November 6, 2009

The word “moist” grosses me, and anyone else in possession of ears, out. The phrase “it’s your loss” rankles me given that if I fucking gave a shit, I would have, y’know, given a shit. However, no phrase irritates and/or offends me more than “I don’t watch television.” The fuck.

Jay and I are together because of television. We were casual acquaintances for years before we started dating, and really, we started dating because we bonded over TV. Television is no joke. The crap that’s on TV is sometimes a joke, but the medium itself - nope. We recently had a party with some other TV-minded nerds enthusiasts, which resulted in this list.  So it was clear that we’re not the only ones who feel this way.

Our tastes differ on paper, but we do have quite a bit in common.  I watch everything on The CW except for The Vampire Diaries and - as of this week! I’m turning a leaf here, folks! - America’s Next Top Model. Jay prefers shows that focus on character, with willingness to play around with conventions - like Sons of Anarchy and In Treatment. But we sit down together for Mad Men and How I Met Your Mother.

My preferred genres, in broad strokes, are teens/young adults, scifi and spies. Jay’s are scifi, adult dramas and comedies heavy on the silly. We made lists of the top 5 greatest TV series of all time according to us, subject to change at any time on a dime or if we remember other stuff that was better, etc.:

Bronwen’s list:

  • The Avengers
  • Beverly Hills 90210
  • The Cosby Show
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • Murphy Brown

Jay’s list:

  • Homicide: Life on the Streets
  • Sports Night
  • Twin Peaks
  • The West Wing
  • The Wire