Current: 1. Sons of Anarchy 2. Glee 3. Dexter (even if I have to wait for this season to come out on iTunes) 4. The Daily Show 5. How I Met Your Mother And I'm grateful Lost and 24 are on their way back to me. Hall of Fame: 1. The Wire 2. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 3. Homicide: Life on the Streets 4. Gilmore Girls 5. Twin Peaks Childhood pop music &...
All time is too hard but... 1. The Wire 2. The Cosby Show 3. Six Feet Under 4. LOST 5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and Angel)
- Jason Toney
It is hard! Criminal Minds just missed the cut (because Sons of Anarchy - swoon, I'm crushing hard on my new fav) and d'oh - how could I have left off SYTYCD? And Six Feet Under could easily have been in my HOF but had to go with Twin Peaks for the appointment TV value it had.
- Maria Niles
And the cut off third list (in which I date myself): Childhood pop music & culture faves: 1. The Partridge Family 2. Getting Together (Bobby Sherman's Partridge Family spin-off) 3. Wonderama (and Kids Are People Too!) 4. (tie) Soul Train/American Bandstand 5. A Year At The Top (5 episodes of not great television that had an impact, nonetheless)
- Maria Niles
Depending on when/how we define the childhood years -- 1. New Edition (and all offshoots) 2. The Cosby Show (and a Different World) 3. all manner of afternoon and Saturday cartoons 4. Yo! MTV Raps 5. Michael Jackson
- Jason Toney
A Different World! I loved that even more than Cosby. And Yo! MTV Raps, definitely. Saturday cartoons - now I'm thinking about Aqua Boy (which I think was actually Marine Boy but I and apparently others remember it as Aqua) and Banana Splits... I sense an epic blog post coming. Thanks for sharing your lists, Jason (and for the memory jogging)!
- Maria Niles
you're welcome. I limited my childhood to before high school :-)
- Jason Toney
Made one of Denise's Top 5 things I'm thankful for lists - TV of course - couldn't do just 5 http://www.blogher.com/groups-... so I made 3 lists (Cheater? No, clever answering!)
Precious, my Precious: Black Female Citizenship, Complexity, and the Politics of Unrelenting Survival - Feministing - http://www.feministing.com/archive...
We do not control our media and cultural systems or the institutions of civil society, and therefore the narrative of black female citizenship has been used in so many ways as the lynchpin to justify the most brutal democracy in the world. The lies that our citizenship is somehow a gift and not a right, that our mothers are responsible for the socialization of black children and therefore the cause of their incarceration, and that our daughters have drained and massacred the economy, have justified mass incarceration, war, the privatization of social services and health care, and the defunding of public education. The same has been done to black men, using different stereotypes. But this, right here, is about black women.
- Maria Niles
A consultant also has to have business experience and understand traditional marketing because there should still be an overall marketing strategy. Social media is just one part of it and does not replace it completely. Stats say traditional television still works. Do banner ads still work? No. Does everyone need to develop a community? Not necessarily. An expert is not that kid who comes out of college. It could be a traditional marketer who is learning some of these new tricks. It can be people with anthropology, journalism, or even scientific backgrounds.
- Maria Niles
"Michael K. Williams might have a legion of hardcore fans (including a certain President of the United States) from his defining role as Omar in the epic series 'The Wire,' but that didn't stop him from being awed by working with Viggo Mortensen when shooting 'The Road.' "Come on, we've all been Viggo-tized before," Williams says of the 'Lord of the Rings' stud and 'Road' co-star. "He has that charisma, he has a swagger. He's a great dude.""
- Maria Niles
from Bookmarklet
"(Obama) was like 'Where's Omar at!!! That's my man!! He's a man with code,'" Williams recalls, beaming. "He found me and gave me the homeboy handshake with the hug and the pat behind the back. I had this thing I was going to tell him which was like you take over Washington and I'll take over Hollywood and I'll meet you back at the ranch. And I looked in this man's face and I saw his grace. He has a light over him. I was just like, 'God bless you, God Bless you.' That's all I could say."
- Maria Niles
@ElisaC LOL! Chihuahuas rock the big dog in a teeny-tiny body attitude. Glad to hear folks found it charming not annoying ;)
A public insurance plan offers a real alternative to the morally bankrupt idea that health care can and should be big business. Unless health insurance companies are in some way compelled to change their definition of success, we will all be at the mercy of policies that put profits before a patient’s life-and-death needs.
- Maria Niles