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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2014! Thanks for sharing your awesome writing throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteMay we all have 17 seconds like the Chicago Blackhawks. And may the Blackhawks have another 17 seconds this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ken and happy new year to you and yours.
And a happy 2014 to you, too, Ken. But I wouldn't want a year like Miley Cyrus had. I'd catch cold from going around naked in public, and my tongue would dehydrate from hanging out of my mouth all the time.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours, Ken . Thanks again so much for writing this blog. Let's hope 2014 makes us laugh.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year everyone.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year, Ken, with hopes Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals crack your list 12 months from now...even though by then, I hope to be living in Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
ReplyDeleteKen - thank you - what an outstanding list!
ReplyDeleteOne more thing I wish for in 2014: The return of the sitcom as water-cooler fodder, as must-see TV. Its place in pop culture has been usurped by dramas from Showtime, HBO, AMC, etc., and the critics on "Fresh Air" rarely, if ever, favorably review sitcom fare (might it be its "lowly" over-the-air network origins?). David Bianculli even praised the "Breaking Bad"/"Malcolm In The Middle" in-joke, even though it was a ripoff of Bob Newhart's first two sitcoms.)
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's because we don't have a "Seinfeld" or "Frasier" out there, or that there simply are too darn many Chuck Lorre shows these days (although I've previously expressed my fondness for "Mom," where Anna Faris and Allison Janney rise above the material). Whatever, even though I think "The Cosby Show" is overrated in reviving the sitcom, we could use its equivalent these days. (Dear AMC: Come up with a sitcom that has snob appeal.)
Ken, your thoughts on the state of the sitcom at the start of 2014?