Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was followed by Tech Blogs and
Last week, SFGate added to the list maybe our fave columnist, Tim Goodman, who unleashed his "The Bastard Machine." Tim is one of our favorite columnists because he championed both versions of the "Office" and "Arrested Development", he got the genius that was "Buffy", and because we too have a pair of cranky pants that we often bust out on occasion (we got ours at the Buffalo Exchange).
Our favorite bit so far has been Tim's recaps of this season's "Sopranos" episodes, adding in details and allusions and foreshadowing that we've completely missed so far, something incredibly helpful in light of this season's two-part Tony-in-a-coma dream sequence. We think this is great because while we know all this stuff is going on in the show, we've never quite seen it and Tim's pointing it out for us. Oh sure, we can break down a new episode of "Lost" as well as any non-obsessed fan could and at one point in our life we could write a twenty or thirty page thesis on the infamous "Buffy" Restless episode, but we've never been able to do it on "the Sopranos." Actually, we've come to believe that all those metaphors and allusions that people talk about being on the show doesn't actually exist, they're just something critics and fans claim exists as a way of explaining all those moments on the show when nothing actually happens. After all, there has to be something happening to explain why they're showing nothing happening.
Anyways, check it out. But just one question, though-- where's Catherine Bigelow's "Swells" blog?
