About Jim Connelly

Jim Connelly has been eye-deep in media of all kinds ever since he can remember, and probably prior to that. Over the past quarter-century he has worked in the radio, film, music, and internet industries, and has been writing about popular culture and technology the entire time. Prior to co-founding Medialoper, Jim's work appeared both online and off in publications such as Wired, The Village Voice, Neumu and Websight Magazine . . . Jim at Facebook . . . Jim on Twitter . . .

  • How ABC and Disney Spoiled “Wall-E” For The Entire World

    Last night, I was watching Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics, and during one of the time outs ABC turned their cameras to show the Celebrities in the audience at the Staples Center, one of the inevitable and annoying trends of the past couple of decades.
    Naturally, [...]

  • Why ET Deserves to Be Hoaxed

    I could give a rats ass as to when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reproduce. I don’t care about their personal lives, and I don’t care about their children. Which is why I find the whole to-do surrounding whether or not Angelina gave birth so hilarious.
    Ladies and gentlemen, a mother giving birth — [...]

  • Why ABC Should Give Up on “Life on Mars”

    As I’ve written a couple of times before, one of my favorite TV shows of the past few years was Life on Mars, the BBC show that was part sci-fi, part retro detective show and fully weird.
    However, it never got much traction here: BBC America didn’t promote it like they’ve done with Torchwood or [...]

  • Why is Prince Being a Creep About that Radiohead Cover?

    You’d think that it would be so easy: as a wink and a nod at the audience for whom he’s performing, Prince does a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella, a bunch of cell-phone videos gets put up on YouTube, and everybody marvels — for the eighty zillionth time — at what a versatile [...]

  • Gods Save The “Save Dollhouse” Campaign

    As some of you might know, I’m married to a pretty big fan of all things Joss Whedon. Rox discovered Buffy The Vampire Slayer between the third and fourth seasons as a necessary antidote to my need to watch every inning of every SF Giants game, and has pretty much snapped up everything he [...]

  • Woman Sat Dead in Front of TV for 42 Years

    My first thought when I saw this headline was simple: she must have been a huge fan. And she didn’t even have TiVo! But then the word “dead” hit me, and it realized that it wasn’t so simple.
    Apparently, in 1966, this woman in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) sat down in front of [...]

  • Why Neil Young Is Wrong To Go With Blu-Ray Only

    The biggest running joke is all of rock music, of course, has become the imminent release of the next Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy which is due to come out, either any day now or never. Even Syd Barrett was able to make a couple of solo albums after he went crazy, Axl.
    However, [...]

  • Rolling Stone Goes to Hell, er, The Hills

    In case you haven’t seen it, the next Rolling Stone magazine has the girls from MTV’s The Hills on the cover.
    Really? The girls from The Hills? That’s the best Rolling Stone could do this week? Wow. Really?
    Look, I realize that criticizing Rolling Stone for abandoning [...]

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