Slog - Comments on Watch This American Life http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life While certain shows on NPR make me want to repeatedly jab an icepick into my ear, everyone loves This American Life with Ira Glass. However! Staunch fans of the program hit the roof when they learned of the televised version debuting on Showtime. Well, I'm here to offer proof that there's no need to worry. This American Life is just as good, if not improved, in this incarnation with brilliant cinematography and lighting augmenting the weird and wonderful stories. Don't have Showtime? Well, check out the first episode in its entirety HERE. (And while the first story about a family... Copyright 2008 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:20:27 -0800 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:51:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by alto That last part of the first sentience was sarcasm, right?

Go here for TAL parody:

http://www.kasperhauser.com/

]]> alto http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680862 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680862 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:27:24 -0800 Comment by RS I've got the heebee jeebees big time. I gotta stop watching these clips you guys post. First Dan with that awful Mika video, and now this. If there was a written way to express the sound of my skin crawling, I would write it.

]]> RS http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680876 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33:31 -0800 Comment by darling463 Holy Hoax!
Let the gods of cinematography and lighting rain down on the blessed image of illiteracy.
Come April (national faux-etry month), feast your eyes on the 3 hotties at the top!
The one on the left looks like a young Edith Sitwell, don't you think?

]]> darling463 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680885 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:38:49 -0800 Comment by gfish What a crappy player. Hasn't Showtime heard of buffering?

]]> gfish http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680957 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c680957 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:18:38 -0800 Comment by john "We at showtime online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."

WHAT THE FUCK?

]]> john http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681063 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:44:55 -0800 Comment by Papayas Dude, that shit rocked.

]]> Papayas http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681076 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:56:09 -0800 Comment by Ebenezer #4, no kidding! I'll just wait and download the torrent. In the meantime I'm going to watch Knut, the cutest bear in the world, for a second time.

]]> Ebenezer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/watch_this_american_life#c681292 TV Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:51:14 -0800