television

Sex and the City

ה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Monday 13 September 2010)

For many years I was only vaguely aware of Sex and the City. In all the time I lived in New York, I was not about to pay extra money for premium cable, and peer-to-peer filesharing had not yet advanced to the point where I could download entire television shows and watch them (it also [...]

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Has Slate Declined?

כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 31 August 2010)

Like TJIC, I read the firmly middlebrow Slate very regularly (I’ve subscribed to the main Slate RSS feed for about three years). Also like him, I have noticed some changes in Slate’s overall quality over time. Here are some things that I think Slate is doing right: Podcasts. I listen to the Political Gabgest and [...]

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Girl Profile: AB

ז׳ במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 25 October 2009)

I met AB online. She’s about a year and a half younger than I am. She’s born and bred in Israel and from a half-Mashhadi, half-Libyan family. We had some distant friends in common and barely chatted at all before deciding to meet almost immediately for coffee. The conversation on our first date went really [...]

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