I was listening to NPR in the car the other day and heard about the Monkey See blog. It covers “popular culture — the good and the bad; the high and the low. We aspire to be a haven for the geek and a translator for the confused, and to carve out a space where both longtime residents and curious visitors can comfortably roam the pop-culture landscape.” There is a lot on television. The writer is Linda Holmes who has been a pop-culture writer for more than 10 years.
Linda had a little movie-review site at one time. She has written about movies, books and television at MSNBC.com and was a longtime writer and editor at Television Without Pity. Linda said she once interviewed Donald Trump for TV Guide, and intends to be buried with my minicassette of him asking, "Hello, Linda, how-a you?"
The blog appears to have started in August 2008, about the time we started the Tvissimo blog. There is also stuff on the web. I really liked the post, 'Far Side' Reenactors Are Delightfully Odd Ducks. It covers a flickr forum committed to photos illustrating Far Side cartoons. Below is an illustration of the famous “objects are closer than they appear” cartoon by the Rocketeer via Flickr and Monkey See. Check out the blog and the forum.
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