Archive for June, 2007

Leo Laporte Likes Offsprung

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Neal and Ben did an interview about Offsprung on the Jumping Monkeys podcast, which is co-hosted by Leo Laporte, who is like the geek-Sinatra. Needless to say, listening to this gave me a five-alarm nerdgasm.
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/JM-003.mp3]

Coupla Links

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

First up, here’s that Sopranos finale discussion I mentioned in the last post. I’ve since had a lot more thoughts about the episode, but I think the piece turned out really good.

Second up, The LA Daily News did an article about Offsprung for Fathers Day. It’s appropriately Pollack-heavy, but I’m in there a little too.

Ten Essential Sopranos Episodes

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I never got around to posting the discussions Jeff Barnosky and I had following The Second Coming and Blue Comet, and that’s too bad because they were pretty good, but now they’re too old.  Oh well.

Here’s a feature I did for work called Ten Essential Sopranos Episodes. It went up Friday, so I wrote it before I saw the finale. Would the finale be on this list if I wrote it today? Hard to say. I loved it and thought it was perfect, but mostly because of the episodes that came before it. It was a culmination. Anyway, give the piece a read.

Later today, a post-finale discussion I did for work yesterday will be going live. I’ll link to it when that happens.