Blogcritics Editors' Picks: November 1 through November 7 - Page 2

From Asst. Books Editor Gordon Hauptfleisch:

What, Bill Sherman worry? With the musing and amusing Lighter Side of Mad Goes Political for Election Day, I was with him all the way.

Imagine learning of the implementation of Islamic law that would effectively turn the clock back fourteen hundred years, or seeing your own name on a death list. With expressiveness and a deft use of allusions, Natalie Bennett, in her review of Shirin Ebadi's frankly honest and human autobiography Iran Awakening, makes a convincing case that in addition to displaying "a certain pig-headed determination to effect change," the author demonstrates the needed "clarity of vision" that enables such Nobel Peace Prize winners "to understand their own actions, and the workings of their society."

TV/FILM

Although it's not technically a television pick per se, I have to give kudos to Melita Teale for putting in words my very own thoughts about the newest box office hit in her article Actually, I Don't Like You: Turning Down Borat.

Back to television, this week Eric Berlin's article The Apprentice Finalist Lee Bienstock Hired By Trump Organization really caught my eye. I'm a big fan of the show and regularly recap/review it. So, I had a bit of a vested interest in the news. I had read several articles written others about the story and I think Eric wrote the best danged one out there.

From TV Editor TV and Film Guy:

Serial Killers must have a hard life. I can just hear them getting together and singing: It's a hard-knock life for us, it's hard-knock life for us, steada treated, we get tricked, steada kisses, we get kicked, it's a hard-knock life. Woe is them, woe is them, it must be so lonely and sad. Poor Dexter, I almost feel bad for him; Ray Ellis certainly seems to.

Jericho. There's a series I just couldn't get into, and don't think I didn't try. I can't tell you how happy it therefore makes me that Ian Woolstencroft is trying and doesn't get it either. I admire the trying, and really appreciate the not getting it. Are we missing something here? I really don't think so.

From Film Editor Lisa McKay:

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Lisa McKay is Blogcritics' Executive Editor. At BC she can usually be found hanging out in the film section. She recently started food blogging at Will Kill for Food.

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