"Snigdha Nandipati is up first. Her word is 'meridienne' and she gets it right!"

"She likes collecting coins and reading mystery novels. I love her geeky cheer." It's time for the National Spelling Bee again...

"Porexia."

A newly coined word for people who've gone all obsessive about the size of their pores.  And speaking of words... High-definition telev...

Margaret Carlson says that Sarah Palin is "becoming old, aging in dog years."

And she needs to watch out for Christine O'Donnell... Although with soft lighting, the pair look like they were separated at birth, in f...

Help me understand baseball uniforms.

Years ago -- in the 1970s -- I used to watch baseball on a little TV, and I thought the players looked great. Last night, I checked out a li...

It's too cold for people to sit outside at State Street Brats.

But it was very pretty passing by just as the Backstreet Boys were singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to open the World Series. So...

Live-blogging the VP debate.

7:31, Central Time: I'm here, eating strozzapreti with burned tomato sauce, counting the last few minutes before the grand showdown. 7:3...

Live-blogging the big debate.

7:22 Central Time: Yes, I'm here, ready to go. Eager. This is big! 7:58: In the comments, we're setting the terms for the drinking g...

"And I gotta say Survivor in HD is awesome. Except for the bug bites and whatever is all over Danny's back."

"My husband said they looked like stab wounds but pausing the DVR didn't offer many clues." So are you watching "Survivor...

Mouth-corner spittle, in HDTV.

Amanda Hess (via Instapundit ) was watching Obama looking nice and "crispy" on HDTV and then, suddenly, there was "a small c...

Did you watch that Democratic debate, you know, the rich-folks-only debate?

Eric Scheie agrees to cover a debate for Pajamas Media only to discover that it's not going to be so easy to watch it: Thinking I must ...

HDTV and the female candidate.

My son Christopher writes that he watched last night's debate on high definition TV, and: Hillary Clinton's lipstick looked differen...

Did you enjoy the sturgeon while I was at the surgeon?

I haven't been posting today, because I've been unconscious, which I consider an ironclad excuse for failure to blog. But after my v...

Prince!

I've just been reminded to watch Prince at the Superbowl. Here I am trying to finish up the podcast -- where I talk about not watching t...

"Mehlman looks worn out."

"Mehlman's a mess!" I exclaim at 11:34. Man, that high definition TV is merciless.

"The Path to 9/11."

I wouldn't have watched this show, because I never watch shows like this. What does "like this" mean? Oh, there are at least f...

"Happy Mornings!"

First, go watch this new commercial for Folger's coffee. The Anchoress just pointed that out and said "it's just…really, real...

Audible Althouse #42.

Here . A mere 26 minutes. Topics: the movie "Open Water," whether one ought to do physically adventurous things, marriage (a physi...

"Open Water."

I avoided this film when it was in the theaters. I avoid most films, so my avoidance means little. But I suppose I lacked the confidence th...

"You see all these pockmarks in his cheeks and he looks like an entirely different person -- and you go, 'Wow, is that Brad Pitt?'"

HDTV looks so good , it makes mere mortals look bad. Actually, the HD camera makes the picture so sharp, it's not just clearer than old-...

Unintentional humor: "My Best Friend's Wedding."

We're watching " My Best Friend's Wedding ," which looks beautiful on HDTV, on Showtime, right now. And we just dissolved ...