Jammer's Blog

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6/10/2024. 'Prodigy' season two gets the binge treatment — Netflix is releasing all 20 episodes on the same day, which is less than ideal for me. | Category: Site News, Television
4/30/2024. AI stands for 'applicably irrelevant' — Artificial intelligence has become the marketing cliché of the last two years, but is it everything it claims to be? | Category: Technology
4/1/2024. Join us for the first-ever JammerCon — Jammer is hosting the first-ever JammerCon, an assembly of Star Trek fans, authors, and creators, coming this summer! | Category: Pranks
3/25/2024. Jammer's Blog: The assimilation — The blog finally makes its way back to the mothership, making this the super-site you never imagined. | Category: Site News
4/1/2022. Jammer is reviewing 'The Expanse' — After years of being asked about it, I decided to take the plunge. | Category: Pranks
3/8/2022. Podcast: Revisiting the Kelvin-verse in 'Star Trek' (2009) — I don't normally do podcasts, but I gave it a try to look back at the Star Trek reboot from 13 years ago. | Categories: Movies, Podcasts
7/2/2021. Doubling back for 'Lower Decks' — Reversing course: I wasn't planning on reviewing Lower Decks, but I've had a change of mind. | Categories: Site News, Television
2/3/2021. Great content. No business model. — I've never really done much of anything to monetize this site, but with your help, maybe that could change. | Category: Site News
1/1/2021. Putting a capstone on 2020 — On the last day of 2020, I witnessed a version of a scene I'd previously seen play out in news stories, but not by real people with actual minds. | Category: Personal
11/20/2020. Let's talk about 'The Mandalorian' — Setting up a place for me to review, and you to discuss, Disney+'s first major Star Wars show. | Categories: Site News, Television
7/14/2020. Jammer's plans for 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' — There's too much Trek content, and I don't intend to review this particular series. | Category: Site News
3/30/2020. Sobering and trivial reflections on a 25th anniversary — The unstoppable passage of time continues, but it feels different this time. I reflect on the early days of the COVID pandemic, and tell Jammer's origin story. | Categories: Milestones, Site News
3/6/2020. A defense for changing our clocks twice a year — The conventional wisdom that says we should stop changing our clocks for Daylight-Saving Time is wrong. | Category: In the News
7/20/2019. Latest 'Picard' trailer reveals familiar faces — Data, Riker, Troi, and Seven of Nine are among the returning characters in Picard's first season. | Categories: Television, Early Look
5/24/2019. Trailer: 'Star Trek: Picard' — The first trailer for the new Patrick Stewart vehicle reveals nothing too exciting. | Categories: Television, Early Look
4/13/2019. Trailer: 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' — Discuss the teaser trailer for the final entry into the Skywalker saga. | Categories: Movies, Early Look
4/1/2019. Struggle is pointless — Control. Control control control. Control? Control! | Categories: Pranks
1/15/2019. Will Jammer ever review 'Babylon 5'? — It's a question I've gotten perhaps more than any other. The short answer: No. | Categories: Television, Reviews
8/10/2018. Pondering Patrick Stewart's return to the franchise — Patrick Stewart has announced he is returning to Star Trek. What does this mean? | Categories: Television, Early Look
12/9/2017. Star Trek: Tarantino — say what? — Say what again. Say. What. Again. I dare you. I double-dare you. | Category: Movies
9/26/2017. 'Discovery' is here; should you pay for CBS All Access to watch it? — The first Trek series on a streaming service means you have to pay a monthly fee to watch, but should you? | Categories: Television, Technology
9/6/2017. A modest proposal for 'Discovery' and 'The Orville' — I announce a plan to review both Discovery and The Orville this fall. | Category: Site News
5/20/2017. Jamie Lee Curtis and Jason — When pop-culture references get butchered. | Categories: Random, Humor
5/17/2017. Trailer proves the existence of 'Star Trek: Discovery' — After months of behind-the-scenes turmoil, the new Trek series now actually has a trailer. | Categories: Television, Early Look
8/15/2016. Discuss the latest on 'Star Trek: Discovery' — As more details emerge about the latest Trek series I offer up some reactions and open the discussion for your comments. | Categories: Television, Early Look
8/1/2016. Donald Trump live-tweets 'Star Trek Beyond' — Kirk. Total loser. I have all the best words. | Categories: Movies, Humor, In the News
7/1/2016. 'Independence Day: Resurgence' is lackluster redundancy — A redundant and pedestrian sequel brings the faceless aliens back to Earth where they threaten to destroy the planet once again. | Categories: Movies, Reviews
5/31/2016. Star Wars: The Infographic! — As fan projects go, this one is crazy in its insane level of detail. | Category: Random
5/20/2016. My review as 'Doom' gets a reboot — Looking back at Doom in the mid-1990s, which represented the pinnacle of gaming for Jammer. | Categories: Technology, Personal
4/7/2016. 'Star Wars' and the dangers of over-saturation — With as much Star Wars content as Disney plans to unleash, how long will it be before we (and they) face diminishing returns? | Category: Movies
1/19/2016. Reviews: Star Wars, Episodes I-VII — I've reviewed all seven of the Star Wars feature films, now available in a newly opened section. | Categories: Site News, Movies
12/14/2015. Trailer: 'Star Trek Beyond' — The first trailer for the upcoming Trek film is out, and I have little to say about it, but please discuss. | Categories: Movies, Early Look
11/2/2015. New Trek series coming in 2017 — A new Trek series has been announced and it will be streamed on CBS' digital subscription service. I offer a few thoughts and solicit your comments. | Categories: Television, Early Look
3/28/2015. Reflections upon 20 years and the elasticity of time — As Jammer gets older, he reflects upon how time continues to accelerate. | Categories: Milestones, Site News
11/10/2014. A true example of classic sci-fi with 'Interstellar' — Haunting, epic science fiction in the true sense of the term, focusing on ideas and feelings alongside each other. | Categories: Movies, Reviews
8/29/2013. Eventually I will write again — Real life continues to keep me away from reviews. What are you gonna do? | Category: Site News
5/30/2013. Get out of the hashtag business, TV networks — TV networks trying to use social media to seem cool and generate buzz only makes them look more like desperate corporate losers. | Categories: Rants, Television
4/5/2013. Farewell, Roger Ebert (1942-2013) — A personal reflection upon the film critic who had perhaps a larger influence on my writing than anyone. | Categories: Movies, Personal
3/26/2013. It's a wrap: TNG's 'All Good Things...' — The posting of the final TNG review means the original mission of this website is now complete. | Categories: Milestones, Site News, Television
3/8/2013. Jammer's hiatus explained with a special announcement — I've been away, but I've got a really good reason for it this time. | Category: Site News, Personal
12/6/2012. Trailer: 'Star Trek Into Darkness' — View and discuss the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness. | Category: Early Look
8/23/2012. Priceline Negotiator lives! — The Priceline Negotiator, last seen at the bottom of a ravine in a fiery bus crash, turns up not dead after all. | Category: Television
3/21/2012. Jammer's Reviews gets an upgrade — My website gets its most significant and important architectural overall since it went online. | Category: Site News
3/8/2012. New iPad announced and still iDon'tCare — The iPad gets its latest release, but it's clearly not for me. I don't need something that fills a nonexistent gap between my phone and my PC. | Category: Technology
2/4/2012. If you get hurt trying this, you can't sue — The places where "Do not attempt" tags get placed in TV commercials are positively goofy. | Categories: Random, Humor
1/21/2012. Farewell, Priceline Negotiator — William Shatner's trip-searching deal-finder meets his end trying to save a busload of customers ... money. | Category: Random
1/3/2012. Louis C.K.: Independent comedian, auteur — The comedian behind Louie finds success by being his own writer, producer, and director. | Category: Television
9/9/2011. I would never say this in mixed company — A discussion on the self-censorship that TV shows (and people) do to take a little bit of the edge off. | Category: Television
8/18/2011. Making a cameo in my own production — I've reworked the mobile site to make it a lot more useful. Now you can read the comments on mobile. | Category: Site News
5/27/2011. The TRT-909: An engineering marvel — A video look at the amazing piece of machinery that rips up and lays its own railroad tracks. | Category: Technology
5/13/2011. When it comes to social networking, I'm not very social — Even though I'm on them, I keep a pretty low profile on all the social media sites, and I'm not very active. | Category: Technology
3/7/2011. To grandmother's house we go! — Who honestly thought it would be a good idea to make Red Riding Hood into a Hollywood thriller? | Categories: Movies, Rants
12/30/2010. Jon Gruden: Hilariously awful or awesome? — I can't decide if Jon Gruden's commentary on Monday Night Football is terrible, or terribly entertaining. | Categories: Television, Sports
11/10/2010. This just in: Cigarettes deadly; cigarette warnings hilarious — The FDA's latest proposed warnings for cigarettes are so over-the-top as to be funny. | Categories: Random, Humor
11/6/2010. Conan to make his awaited return to TV — After being booted from NBC, Conan is finally making his TBS debut. | Category: Television
9/10/2010. Election 2010: Here comes the crazy — This one is crazy even by the insane standards of politics today. | Category: In the News
7/22/2010. 'Lost' series finale review: 'The End' — Jammer takes a look at the series finale of the long-running, genre-spanning anthology series. | Categories: Television, Reviews
6/15/2010. 'I'm Rick Barber, and I approved this Revolutionary War' — This seemed over-the-top for politics in 2010. These days, not so much. | Category: In the News
6/3/2010. MLB: Just add instant replay already — After a blown call cost a pitcher a perfect game, the MLB needs to get over itself when it comes to adding instant replay to the game. | Category: Sports
5/26/2010. Review: '24' series finale: The clock runs out — The action drama reaches is final hour, until an eventual limited series, anyway. | Categories: Television, Reviews
5/22/2010. 'Lost' review: 'What They Died For' — As we reach the final hours, Lost looks to upend the game one more time. | Categories: Television, Reviews
5/19/2010. Review: Law & Order: SVU: 'Shattered' — The latest season finale of the venerable crime drama is an exercise in awful melodrama and the series at its worst. | Categories: Television, Reviews
5/11/2010. 'Lost' review: 'Across the Sea' — Lost provides the origin story of Jacob and the Man in Black, with middling results. | Categories: Television, Reviews
5/5/2010. 'Lost' review: 'The Candidate' — A major outing in the series' final stretch features a stunning number of irrevocable developments. | Categories: Television, Reviews
4/21/2010. 'V' is for 'vacant' — ABC's alien invasion remake has become so bad I almost want to keep watching just to see if it gets worse. | Categories: Television, Reviews
4/20/2010. '24' heads into final hours, puts Jack on the outs — As the clock ticks toward the series finale, Jack looks to be headed toward anti-hero status. | Categories: Television, Reviews
4/12/2010. Conan and TBS: A surprisingly logical fit — A smaller audience might actually be the right thing for Conan, who has always been more of a niche product than a mainstream crowd-pleaser. | Category: Television
4/4/2010. Who needs the iPad? Nobody, I'm sure. — Apple's plan to make what looks like a super-large iPhone may invent yet another product line, but that doesn't mean anyone needs it. | Category: Technology
3/30/2010. Celebrating 15 years. One more year until this site can drive. — Another five years, another anniversary article. | Categories: Milestones, Site News
3/17/2010. '24': The lamentable Dana Walsh situation — Katee Sackhoff joined the cast of 24 only to be dropped into one of the series' all-time worst subplots. | Categories: Television, Rants
2/9/2010. Go Daddy and Danica Patrick are the opposite of awesome — Or how to pander to the worst dumb-guy tendencies, while doing a crappy job, to boot. | Categories: Television, Rants
2/5/2010. Funniest. Political ad. Ever. — Demon sheep with glowing red eyes. Hilarious desktop-computer VFX. An ad for the ages. | Categories: Television, Humor
2/1/2010. How the 'Caprica' reviews will work going forward — My attempt to leverage my blogging platform for the latest review project. | Categories: Site News, Television
1/27/2010. Twitter: Let's get this party started — A half-hearted attempt to jump-start my Twitter presence. It was not to be. | Category: Site News
1/22/2010. 'Caprica' premieres tonight. Are you in or out? — I will be reviewing it. Will you be watching? | Category: Television, Early Look
1/12/2010. NBC: Never Be Closing (aka the Conan debacle) — NBC manages to turn The Tonight Show turnover into another epic-fail controversy, this time with Conan O'Brien. | Category: Television
1/6/2010. 3D cinema? Possibly. 3D television? Please get real. — Even with Avatar, 3D is at best an occasional novelty for the movies. The idea of it becoming ubiquitous for TV is beyond a stretch. | Categories: Movies, Television, Technology
12/23/2009. 'Balloon boy' parents: Good riddance — This hoax ends with a jail sentence. That seems about right. | Category: Rants
12/15/2009. An admission I can no longer deny — Yes, I listen to pop music. I said it. | Category: Random
12/9/2009. Jammer's Reviews & Blog go mobile — I've finally developed a mobile version of the site. | Category: Site News
12/1/2009. 'Will you at least admit that a nuclear explosion is awesome?' — Stephen Colbert's comically displays his commitment to re-enacting a nuclear bomb detonation. | Categories: Television, Humor
11/27/2009. 'Doorbusters': Shame on you — The term "doorbuster" should be jettisoned from the popular lexicon as the distasteful centerpiece of a detestable tradition. | Categories: Rants, In the News
11/24/2009. '2012': You want apocalypse? You GOT apocalypse. — Roland Emmerich's latest world-ender features large-scale disaster, no shortage of corny moments, and is surprisingly entertaining. | Category: Movies, Reviews
11/23/2009. I compare 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' to 'Star Trek.' Because I can. — The Seinfeld season of Curb ends with a moment so brilliantly meta that the entire Larry David Universe may collapse upon itself. | Category: Television
11/18/2009. Why does Robert Zemeckis hate live action? — Zemeckis has done so much animation lately that one wonders if he's done with live action. | Category: Movies
11/10/2009. Why does Roland Emmerich hate the world? — I've noticed a theme in his movies. | Category: Movies
11/9/2009. Jon Gruden: Praise-meister — One heckuva football announcer! | Category: Sports
11/3/2009. No one is going undefeated in the NFL, so just drop it — This annual speculation is inevitable. Just as inevitable as the fact it won't ever happen. | Category: Sports
10/22/2009. Favre: So I was wrong — I guess Favre not retiring was the right call after all. | Category: Sports
10/22/2009. Review: Microsoft Windows 7 — At long last, the successor to the ubiquitous Windows 6. | Category: Technology
10/21/2009. The difficulty of overcoming inertia — Jammer finds it hard to get back into the swing of things after being out of it for so long. | Category: Site News
9/24/2009. Abandoning the battle against spam — That's what spam filters are for, so what are we fretting about? | Category: Technology
9/2/2009. Don't Text and Drive™ — Does this graphic PSA sell its message too hard to be effective? | Category: Random
8/31/2009. It's far past time for 'Abby' be put out to pasture — The idea of the advice columnist has always been strange. More so now than ever. | Categories: Random, Humor
8/19/2009. Brett Favre: Just retire already — The annual Brett Favre retirement speculation drama has gotten old. | Category: Sports
8/6/2009. 'At the Movies' reboot unbooted — The long running movie review series, retooled into an abomination a year ago, as now been un-retooled. | Category: Television
7/20/2009. And this year's winner for Douchebag Theme Song is... — The worst song of the year gets brilliantly assigned a label. | Category: Rants
7/15/2009. First episodes deserve titles too — Why do so many pilot episodes get named "Pilot," rather than being given actual titles? | Category: Television
7/9/2009. 'Transformers 2': Less than meets the eye. Much less. — The Michael Bay CGI sequel is excessive in every possible way, and a complete waste of time. | Category: Movies, Reviews
7/9/2009. Billy Mays to yell, sell posthumously — The late pitchman gets his own documentary. | Category: Television
7/8/2009. Syfy: Aka, Sci Fi, the reboot — Or how to rename your network in the goofiest way possible. | Category: Television
7/6/2009. Michael Jackson coverage: Enough already — This just in: Michael Jackson is still dead. It's possible he could come back to life, but for now, no, still dead. | Categories: Television, Rants
6/22/2009. I have an announcement for Jon & Kate — For the love of God, please go away. | Categories: Television, Rants
6/16/2009. 'True Blood': A guy show for chicks? — The pulpy HBO show ticks a lot of boxes in both the male and female demographic columns. | Category: Television
6/10/2009. Conan O'Brien, the reboot — Conan takes over The Tonight Show with his quirkier brand of humor. Will it work in an earlier timeslot? | Category: Television
6/3/2009. Jammer's Blog, the reboot — IDWID becomes Jammer's Blog, and I talk about the future of both the blog and review sites. | Category: Site News
4/29/2009. Twitter: Latest fad for the 'Information Superhighway' — Everyone is jumping on the latest bandwagon, but they don't have a compelling reason for doing so. | Category: Technology
12/4/2008. 'Boston Legal' prepares to close its doors — The seriocomic legal soapbox drama starring James Spader and William Shatner draws to a close. | Category: Television
11/29/2008. Is it time to rethink the TV 'season' concept? — Seasons have become multiple blocks spread out over more than a year, rendering the term less than accurate. | Category: Television
11/28/2008. Just stop it already, you Black Friday idiots — A worker was trampled to death by shoppers. When will this madness end? | Category: Rants
10/16/2008. I've seen America, and his name is Joe — "Joe the Plumber" is the latest political theme being tackled by the candidates. | Category: In the News
10/6/2008. Idiocy du jour: CNN's debate EKG — Useless, distracting on-screen metrics gathered in the most useless and unscientific way. | Categories: In the News, Rants
10/5/2008. World Series or bust; place bets on 'bust' — The 100-year drought will now be at least 101. | Category: Sports
8/27/2008. The hopes of ending the 100-year drought — The Chicago Cubs are in the playoffs, and I'm fully invested. | Category: Sports
7/12/2008. You've got to be kidding me — A show called America's Greatest Dog promises to be reality TV at its worst. | Categories: Television, Rants
5/16/2008. Crazy-ass anchors on camera are awesome — "I don't know what that means, to play us out." | Categories: Television, Humor
5/5/2008. Enough with this Miley Cyrus bull$#!% — The pop-garbage media machine needs to leave Miley alone. | Categories: Television, Rants
5/1/2008. The long and busy moving week — I bought my first house and moved into it this week. It was a process. | Category: Personal
3/11/2008. Race to the White House: The sports event of 2008 — Everything about political coverage is actually sports coverage. It's even right there in the term "horse race." | Categories: In the News, Sports
3/7/2008. Stop complaining about 'losing an hour' — People whining about the clock change really need to learn to cope with this minor inconvenience. | Category: Rants
2/25/2008. Some words before the book closes on 'The Wire' — A spoiler-free look back at five seasons of The Wire, one of the greatest shows in TV history. | Categories: Television, Reviews
2/19/2008. The war officially ends today — After two years, the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD is over, and a winner has emerged. | Categories: Television, Technology
2/12/2008. A public service announcement from David Lynch — "It's such a sadness, that you think you've seen a film..." | Categories: Random, Humor, Movies
2/7/2008. Conan vs. Colbert vs. Stewart — The ongoing feud between the three hosts ends with a hilariously epic fight. | Categories: Television, Humor
2/5/2008. Building a better mousetrap — Looking back at the best Super Bowl commercial of 2007. | Categories: Television, Humor
2/4/2008. They aren't who we didn't think they weren't — The Giants' win over the Patriots is one of the all-time greats where David slayed Goliath. | Category: Sports
1/31/2008. The FCC is a (expletive deleted) joke — The censorship arm of the FCC values punitive bureaucracy over common sense. | Categories: Television, Rants
1/22/2008. Better organization is costing me too much time — DVR and RSS are great for organization, but they end up making me consume more rather than less. | Categories: Television, Technology
1/17/2008. Okay, maybe they need writers after all — An off-night for Jon Stewart shows that writer-less late-night can be hit-and-miss. | Category: Television
1/12/2008. Who's (not) writing late-night TV? — The late-night shows have returned without writers. Is this really all being improvised? Clearly not, so what constitutes "writing"? | Category: Television
1/7/2008. The endless cycle of a declining popular culture — The paparazzi madness around certain celebrities is an indication of a sicker underlying societal tendency. | Category: Rants
12/18/2007. The world's friendliest spam bot — Most spam is annoying. Some is surprisingly cordial. | Categories: Technology, Humor
12/13/2007. Memories of a long-ago July ... 2007 — With the winter darkness setting in, summer feels like a distant memory. | Category: Personal
12/11/2007. They are who we thought they were — The typically sorry state of the Chicago Bears, who are going from Super Bowl losers to missing the playoffs. | Category: Sports
11/23/2007. 'Black Friday' is patently absurd — I once stood in line and did the Black Friday thing. Here is that story. | Categories: Personal, Rants
11/15/2007. Thoughts on the writers strike — Writers should be paid for their work. Studios can't claim everything online is "promotional." | Category: Television
11/14/2007. I'm done with McAfee VirusScan — The performance hit to my PC makes this software a bane to my existence. | Categories: Technology, Rants
11/6/2007. Please: Christmas does not begin on Nov. 1 — Why can't we wait until Thanksgiving to start Christmas season? | Category: Rants
10/31/2007. A product to die for — For sale for the truly eternal fan: Star Trek: The Coffin. | Category: Random
10/29/2007. Stolen newspaper saga update — People suck. I hate people. | Category: Personal
10/27/2007. What the %$#@ is a 'Bee Movie TV Junior'? — One of the worst promotional tie-ins in the history of bad movies. | Category: Television
10/19/2007. Does anybody care about GO.com? — I'm not sure why Disney feels the need to promote this domain as a portal when it has zero branding profile. | Category: Technology
10/16/2007. So you're the son of a bitch who's been stealing my newspaper — Don't be a jerk. A newspaper paid for by an apartment resident is not public property. | Category: Personal
10/11/2007. Obviously, you're not a golfer — I'm a Lebowski, you're a Lebowski. Jammer looks at the Coens' 1998 classic and its endless quotability. | Categories: Movies, Humor
10/4/2007. An IDWID sports discussion (mostly Chicago) — Jammer talks a bit about the sports teams that interest him. | Category: Sports
10/3/2007. 'Friday Night Lights' returns this week — Season two of the acclaimed series returns, with one plot development that's less than promising. | Categories: Television, Early Look
9/27/2007. Review: 'Friday Night Lights' — A look back at the high-school football drama's outstanding first season. | Categories: Television, Reviews
9/17/2007. The case of the vanishing furniture — Strange dreams can seem very real. | Category: Random
9/12/2007. Halloween is not a season, so just stop it — Why do we need to make a fun, silly day into a month-long consumer event? | Category: Rants
9/10/2007. HD DVD? Blu-ray? None of the above, for now. — With the HD format war openly declared, consumers are advised to sit on the sidelines and wait. | Categories: Television, Movies, Technology
9/5/2007. What the hell is 'Rescue Me' about? — The series' aimless fourth season reveals itself as a nonsensical series of absurd events. | Categories: Television, Reviews
8/30/2007. We're a nation of knee-jerk responders — When bad things happen, we react with quick responses that rarely pan out in the long run. | Category: In the News
8/23/2007. When TV interviews go very bad — This awkward interview with Holly Hunter ranks up there with cringe-worthy viral videos. | Category: Television
8/20/2007. I loathe thee. Let me count the ways. — This might be the most epic rant I've ever unleashed, about a show no one could possibly care about. | Categories: Television, Rants
8/2/2007. Stop saying 'backslash,' you computer illiterates — Backslashes have never, in the history of the Internet, been part of a URL, so STOP SAYING IT. | Categories: Technology, Rants
7/26/2007. Three movie directors with too much hype — I put Michael Bay, M. Night Shyamalan, and Brett Ratner on blast. | Category: Movies
7/24/2007. Wow, and you thought I was anti-iPhone — An epic rant on the iPhone shows how mild I truly am. | Category: Technology, Rants
7/13/2007. Review: Nine Inch Nails: 'Year Zero' — I don't do music reviews, but I've tried to write something about this great album. | Categories: Music, Reviews
7/9/2007. 'Rescue Me' really isn't that good — To its own detriment, this series always uses its jokey tone to sidestep the consequences its characters should face from the crazy plot developments. | Categories: Television, Reviews
7/2/2007. Live from southwest Michigan — Great weather. Extremely late sunsets. Loving it. | Category: Personal
6/28/2007. Get a life, you iPhone-crazy fools — Stop waiting in line for hours for iPhones and go live your life. | Categories: Technology, Rants
6/26/2007. Bob & Tom suck — The radio show is obnoxious and unlistenable. | Category: Rants
6/21/2007. What? 'Die Hard 4' rated PG-13? — The latest installment in the R-rated franchise will get a teenage-friendly rating. I have thoughts. | Category: Movies
6/18/2007. Birds must think I'm a complete a-hole — Alcohol and boredom will sometimes do things. | Category: Random
6/13/2007. When dot-com ventures turn personal — The strange story of a web hosting network between two business partners whose arrangement dissolved as I watched from the sidelines. | Categories: Technology, Personal
6/12/2007. Review: The 'Sopranos' finale — A celebrated television giant ends with a divisive finale you either love or hate ... unless you're Jammer. | Categories: Television, Reviews
6/8/2007. Forget Paris — This Paris Hilton tabloid madness is puke-worthy. | Category: Rants
6/4/2007. Lennie for president — Break the law, go to RIKERS. | Category: Random
5/25/2007. Wow, your Schwetty balls are delicious — This might be the only time I ever write a blog that is a recipe. | Category: Personal
5/23/2007. Jammer's '24' Day 6 debriefing — A look at the worst season of 24 and the many ways it went wrong. | Categories: Television, Reviews
5/21/2007. To ABC geniuses: An ad campaign is not a sitcom — Someone thought it would be brilliant to turn the Geico cavemen into a sitcom. They're clearly wrong. | Category: Television
5/19/2007. Non-nerds need not apply — Star Trek vs. Star Wars: The Versusing. | Categories: Random, Humor
5/14/2007. Go get 16:9 content for your 16:9 TVs, you morons — It amazes me how many people don't understand aspect ratio and think their stretched SD content looks good on an HD screen when, in fact, it looks terrible. | Categories: Television, Rants
5/12/2007. Stay on target, stay on target... — The story of my first time firing a gun at a firing range. | Category: Personal
5/11/2007. 'Rated R for strong graphic smoking...' — The MPAA will now incorporate smoking into its list of reasons for its rating classifications. | Categories: Movies, Rants
5/8/2007. Worst. Sportscaster. Ever. — Passes it to the man, shoots it, and boom goes the dynamite. | Category: Humor
5/7/2007. Save/Ban the Chief! — A perennial controversy at my alma mater, which started long before I went there and continued long after I left. | Category: Random
5/3/2007. It's May. Awesome. — Some thoughts on my favorite month of the year. | Category: Personal
5/2/2007. Is Windows Vista a flop? — In keeping with the "every other version of Windows fails" theory, no one seems to care about Vista, and everyone is sticking with XP. | Category: Technology
4/29/2007. 'Tell me about the fightin' ... uh, all of Guam' — Usually, the subjects of Stephen Colbert's interviews have an idea of what they're getting into. This one, I'm not so sure. | Categories: Television, Humor
4/28/2007. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. — What kind of bear is best? False. Black bear. | Categories: Television, Humor
4/26/2007. Regarding comic strips — Some thoughts from when I used to read comics in my daily newspaper (when I used to look at a daily newspaper). | Category: Random
4/25/2007. Steven Wright: As hilariously crazy as ever — The deadpan comedian returns in his first standup special in 16 years. | Categories: Television, Humor
4/23/2007. Peter Stormare needs to star in more commercials — V-dub in full effect. Un-pimp the auto. Oh, snap! | Categories: Television, Humor
4/20/2007. The 'Office Space' you haven't seen — A YouTube video has turned Office Space into a thriller trailer. | Categories: Movies, Humor
4/19/2007. Is media playing the role of killer's pawn? — Where does news coverage end and glorification of a mass murderer begin? | Category: In the News
4/19/2007. Welcome, Jammer's Reviews readers — I've started a blog, and now I invite the Jammer's Reviews audience to take look. | Category: Site News
4/18/2007. Fig. 1: Check this s#!% out — An all-time classic that uses brutal honesty to make a mockery of the college lab experiment. | Categories: Random, Humor
4/17/2007. Practice makes perfect at Men's Wearhouse — A high-school anecdote for the ages, involving archery, basements, and suits. | Categories: Personal, Humor
4/16/2007. No answers to find in shooting massacres — Wow, does this post seem antiquated in retrospect, given how many mass shootings we now endure. | Category: In the News
4/13/2007. Who needs a jury when we have Nancy Grace? — Listening to this "journalist" and her performative moral outrage is enough to drive you smash your television. | Categories: Television, Rants
4/12/2007. Were I a fighting man, I'd blow smoke in your face — Can we all agree the anti-smoking campaign Truth is smug and self-important beyond words? | Categories: Television, Rants
4/11/2007. From IDWID to IDWID: No hard feelings? — Somehow, I got the IDWID.com domain name weeks before this other business would've had the opportunity. | Category: Random
4/11/2007. In space, no one can hear you go mad — A fan turns his apartment into a Star Trek set. It's a strange way to live. | Category: Random
4/10/2007. ANS stands for 'And Now Stop' — This Anna Nicole Smith coverage on cable news needs to stop. | Category: In the News
4/10/2007. 'Sopranos' is apparently too good for a season 7 — I'm not sure why we split television seasons in half and not just call them what they are — additional seasons. | Category: Television
4/10/2007. '24' this season is a haphazard mess — The sixth season of the action drama is all over the place, and more unhinged than usual. | Categories: Television, Reviews
4/9/2007. I've never used a hand dryer in my life — I didn't realize using a hand dryer required an illustration showing how to press a button. | Categories: Random, Humor
4/7/2007. Definition and history of 'It do what it do' — A blogging mission statement is defined. | Category: Site News
2/28/2007. CNN is a joke — A month after Anna Nicole's Smith's death, CNN is covering the "story" like tabloid whores. | Categories: Television, Rants
4/25/2006. We've moved and stuff — Star Trek: Hypertext is no more. New name, new server, new independence. | Category: Site News
4/20/2006. If you haven't already, go watch 'The Shield' — Seriously, why haven't you watched this show? It's as good as the hype implies. Probably better. | Category: Television
8/9/2005. Review: 'Too Late With Adam Corolla' — Also known as, how to fill half an hour with two minutes of content. | Categories: Television, Rants
3/22/2005. One decade and counting — We've been here for 10 years, believe it or not. Damn, I'm getting old. I promise not to be sentimental. | Categories: Milestones, Site News
1/3/2005. Wake me up, Scotty — I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. To be honest, I'm not sure where we are. Somewhere between insomnia and madness. | Category: Random
3/4/2004. Review: 'America's Next Top Model' — Jammer takes a critical, in-depth look at this UPN reality series focusing on the subtleties of the fashion industry. | Categories: Television, Rants
3/4/2004. Hey, promo guy: You're fired — For the love of God, find a new way to advertise your shows, NBC. Using the same clip for an entire season is lazy and lame. | Categories: Television, Rants
2/20/2004. Confessions of a Closet Trekkie — Jammer has issues, man. Serious issues. And he cops to everything in this epic expose. | Categories: Personal, Humor
1/8/2004. Return of the AnyKey — Or "At Death's Door, Part II" You just can't keep a good Gateway 2000 keyboard down. | Category: Random
8/15/2003. Summer of serialization — Nothing new in prime time, so I turn my attention to The Wire and The Sopranos. | Category: Television
6/30/2003. Busey's with dumbass — "I'm With Busey," and especially that awful Adam guy, needs to go far away. | Categories: Television, Rants
4/1/2003. Enterprise to be revamped as 'ultimate' reality series — Look out, Reality Television. You are on notice. Seriously, I should pitch this to every studio in Hollywood. | Category: Pranks
3/12/2003. Why I hate the Fox News Channel — Watch as political commentary becomes a witless bar fight. | Categories: Television, Rants
10/14/2002. At death's door — It's dying, and there's nothing I can do. Can it be saved? | Category: Random
8/31/2002. Resistance Is futile: You will all become one with the sisterhood — My rant on MTV's latest idiotic "reality" series, "Sorority Life." | Categories: Television, Rants
4/1/2002. All your base are belong to us — What happen? Someone set up us bomb. | Category: Pranks
3/17/2002. Documentary review: '9/11' — A look at the riveting photographed account of 9/11 in New York. | Categories: Television, In the News
9/14/2001. On a tragic Tuesday morning — Some thoughts in the aftermath of 9/11. | Category: In the News
4/1/2001. Star Trek: Hypertext shut down — My attempt at an April Fool's prank alleges that this site has been shut down. | Category: Pranks
3/24/2001. Pandering fails to capture X-treme audience — If "Temptation Island" was a success, at least I can take comfort in the XFL sucking it up. | Category: Television
1/8/2001. Network TV's new pandering low — Great, just what we needed: a reality show called "Temptation Island." | Categories: Television, Rants
11/7/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 6: Franchise at a Crossroads — Trek resides in a strange place it hasn't been in since The Next Generation was facing a launch marked with optimism but also uncertainty. | Category: In Depth
10/5/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 5: Dogs of War — Trek has not escaped war. Instead of extinguishing war, the Federation has applied it to new frontiers. | Category: In Depth
9/19/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 4: Technobabble — I'd like to single out a specific subset of Federation society that we can't fully comprehend: the technology. | Category: In Depth
9/1/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 3: Galaxy of the Elite? — I've been through the Trek canon and back, and everywhere humans live is a pretty elite place. Where are the blue-collar workers? Do they exist? | Category: In Depth
8/17/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 2: The Movies — Not surprisingly, some important chapters in Star Trek emanate not only from the small screen, but also from the big one. | Category: In Depth
8/3/2000. The Deeper Side of Trek, Part 1: Defining a Franchise — It's a safe bet to say not everyone is intimately familiar with Star Trek and its various spin-offs, but is there anyone with any knowledge of mainstream American entertainment who hasn't at least heard of it? | Category: In Depth
4/26/2000. Jammer Goes to L.A. — A report on my trip to Los Angeles to pitch a few story ideas to Star Trek: Voyager. | Category: Personal
3/7/2000. Five years on the web — Five years, and we're still here. Take a look at some of this site's backstory. | Category: Milestones, Site News
2/25/2000. Vote to rename Voyager — Think Voyager's name should be different? Try some of these. | Category: Pranks
11/6/1999. Try, try again, NBC — A brief gripe column about NBC's itchy trigger finger in canceling Homicide for the now-canceled loser, Cold Feet. | Category: Television
8/10/1999. The Franchise's Future — My segment of a multi-writer series, with some thoughts on what lies ahead in Trek's future. | Category: In Depth
2/21/1999. A tribute to Gene Siskel (1946-1999) — Remembering a man who, along with the indispensable Roger Ebert, helped bring film criticism to the mainstream of America. | Categories: Movies, Personal
1/12/1998. DS9 book review: 'Wrath of the Prophets' — When a fatal disease spreads over Bajor, threatening the entire planet with extinction, Captain Sisko must accept aid from an unexpected source: Ro Laren, Starfleet officer turned Maquis renegade. | Category: Books, Reviews
12/8/1997. Four Series and the Trek Ideology — An in-depth look at the Star Trek ideals and success as conceived through four different Star Trek series. | Category: In Depth
2/3/1997. Clarity needed in Viacom-induced web mess — A followup post to "Viacom's Web Assault." Like with the FCC, it would be nice to know ahead of time what's permissible and what's not. | Category: Rants
12/23/1996. Viacom's web assault — One of my early (naive) rants about copyright issues, when Viacom was shutting down certain fan sites. | Category: Rants
12/19/1996. DS9 book review: 'Saratoga' — Painful memories are reawakened when the USS Defiant carries the survivors of the Saratoga to an important Starfleet ceremony. | Category: Books, Reviews
3/27/1995. Announcing my website's launch — Read the original Usenet post announcing the creation of my website. | Category: Milestones, Site News
1/24/1995. Trek's musical problems — Music on Star Trek in the mid-1990s was too muted for my tastes. Here's some venting on the subject. | Category: Television

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