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Questions, Answers, and Timbits
A couple of creative approaches to Our Current Moment that resonate with me as a fan of things today. The first is a recent piece by Dave Eggers that satirizes the confusion of our times. I may not agree with … Continue reading
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Tagged Dave Eggers, How I Met Your Mother
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For the Longest Time . . . Travelers
Tonight I finally got back around to watching the “Time Travelers” episode of How I Met Your Mother. On some level, it’s the season eight version of “Symphony of Illumination,” but this one is for Ted. The through-line conceit is … Continue reading
Simple Song for the MacLaren’s Gang
I just finished a longer-than-anticipated rewatch of the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother. Complain all you want about how the ninth season ended, but the eighth season’s wrap stands out as one of my favorite moments from … Continue reading
Being Mosby: Unending Story
A series finale can be a tricky thing. Do you take the approach of The Sopranos, cutting to an ambiguous black screen? Do you wrap things up neatly in bow like Everwood? Do you end on a sad note like … Continue reading
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Being Mosby: The Best Thing We Do
Big night tonight. After nine seasons, Ted finally meets his match. Lots of fun little “retrospectives” for a show that many thought wouldn’t make it past two or three seasons have been popping up. Here’s TV Guide‘s article looking inside … Continue reading
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Being Mosby: Forty-five Days
As a kind of “prep” for Monday night’s final season premiere of How I Met Your Mother, I took it upon myself to watch some old (seasons 1-4) and some not-so-old (season 8) episodes of what has become the last … Continue reading
Being Mosby: Straight As of a Different Kind
The ending of last night’s How I Met Your Mother was brutal. The show often uses Ted Mosby as a way to communicate something about the single life: it comes at it from almost every direction and isn’t afraid of … Continue reading
Being Mosby: Heart Holding Fast
THE HEART IS A FUNNY THING. People view it in extremes (which almost jives with the biblical picture). It may be deceitful, but it is also the springs of life. So I try to understand the heart in a middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort Atlantic, How I Met Your Mother, Let Your Heart Hold Fast
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Being Mosby: Getting Out of the Pit
WHILE I AM MOST FOND of How I Met Your Mother comparison to LOST, some of its best moments show it a descendant of another show: Scrubs. Somewhere along the way, mixed in with the flashes backwards, forwards, and sideways, … Continue reading
Posted in Television, The Importance of Being Mosby, The Long Story
Tagged How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, The Pit
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Being Mosby: Friends and Married (With Children)
third in an unfortunately erratic series STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, How I Met Your Mother has an interesting tendency to bring up often-important issues in a timely manner. The show, seen mostly through the eyes of hopelessly romantic Ted … Continue reading
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Tagged Friendship, How I Met Your Mother
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Space Enough, and Time 