Online Media Cultist

If you’re a fan of Parks and Recreation (and you should be), Star Wars (who isn’t? and we’re talking original trilogy here!), and, ideally, both you will absolutely go out of your mind for this opening theme parody called Hutts and Recreation. Okay, so if you absolutely don’t go out of your mind, there’s a very [...]

I’m breaking my blogging mini-vacation to bring you an update on Super Bowl news and video on the web. That’s right, you can find stuff about the Super Bowl on the Internet these days. But seriously… I thought I’d give a little sprinkling of some of the more interesting things I’ve seen going on around [...]

Before I get into what will likely be a somewhat negative diatribe about ”Boxed In,” by Grady Hendrix, I’d like to start out by saying how much I love online magazine Slate. I’ve read it daily for years and greatly enjoy its intelligent and savvy coverage of politics, pop culture, technology, and television (its TV [...]

I can't mark the exact moment when I made Hulu one of the regular stops during my web-drenched day, but I do know that it was sometime around two years ago. While I'll certainly stop by YouTube to check out the latest UGC meme or dig up some video of brilliant obscurity, Hulu is more [...]

With the news today that MSNBC.com is now offering embeddable video players as part of its product offering, ABCNews.com clearly falls behind the pack as the only major U.S. television news organization to not offer embeddable video online. Let’s recap. CBS News: Yep. Watch CBS News Videos Online MSNBC: Yep. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about [...]

via twitpic.com Something seems deeply strange and wrong to me, seeing Betty Draper (January Jones) in a pic with John McCain.

via sfgate.com Sports geeks are well familiar with the concept of “power rankings,” which ranks teams relative to one another each week. Tim Goodman’s Bastard Machine has long been one of my favorite TV blogs. It has earned even more respect from me by rolling out its own version of TV power rankings. Geeks of TV land, [...]

via latimes.com I had a similar reaction to the initial television coverage of the LA fires as this TV critic. In fact, I spent much of Sunday anxiously scouring TV and the webs looking for updates on evacuations going on in my area. LA Times online was just about the best resource I found, along with [...]

via salon.com “Community” looks promising. I grew up loving Chevy Chase movies, particularly Spies Like Us. And Trudy from Mad Men!

RDF to debut interactive cartoon series ‘Sleuths’ allows viewers’ avatars to appear onscreen By James Hibberd Aug 24, 2009, 08:04 PM ET RDF is looking to launch the U.S.’ first interactive animated series. The reality production company behind such shows as Fox’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” and ABC’s “Wife Swap” is teaming with new-media company Artificial Life to design a [...]