Okay, this is actually a little old, but there’s this great commercial of Ray Bradbury, author of many classic science fictions stories such as Fahrenheit 451, personally appearing on a commercial for prunes.

Speaking of Fahrenheit 451, many people presume that the point of the book is the censorship of books due to governmental control. Not [...]

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I believe we’ve touched briefly upon Dinner: Impossible on the podcast before. I quite enjoyed the first few episodes, with its reality-tv-like challenges, but presumably with a proven chef at the helm etc.
As time went on, I ditched its Season Pass from the Tivo, because the challenges didn’t really become more interesting, and the more [...]

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Alton Brown reups for another three years: “
Filed under: Business, Television/Film
It is my opinion that Alton Brown is one of the best things about the Food Network these days. Rachael Ray jumped the shark when she teamed up with Oprah and I can not deal with the train wreck that is Sandra Lee. [...]

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