My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Time for me to lay a little love on a commercial. Every once in... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Star Wars in 3D
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. There's word in the movie world that two of my least favorite things may... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Al Jazeera
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Over the last month there has been a little bit of discussion about whether... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – All News is Local
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Back in the 1980s we heard a political truism from then Speaker of the... Continue Reading →
Theological Thoughts – Constatnine's Curse
The Donation of Constantine (check this and this) is a forged document of the 8th or 9th Century that claimed to be from the Roman Emperor Constantine I to Pope Sylvester I and those that followed him granting the bishop of Rome authority over most of the world. Not just spiritual authority but secular authority... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Opera Redux
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Well this is certainly the first time and in all likelihood the last time... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Swiss Chalet TV
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Lots of serious stuff this week so why not throw in something that's at... Continue Reading →
From the Reading List
Two audiobooks: A Darker Place by Jack Higgins - This is yet another in the series of novels Higgins has written involving former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon (there have been 18 so far). All the usual characters are here - Dillon, Brigadier Ferguson, the Salters (reformed East End criminals) and the rest of the crew... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Anna Nicole – the Opera
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Pardon me while I try and retrieve part of my education from many years... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Harper Collins and Library E-Books
My name is Jay Phillippi and I've spent my life in and around the media. TV, radio, the movies and more. I love them, and I hate them and I always have an opinion. Call this the View from the Phlipside. Now that I'm an e-book reader owner (still enjoying my Nook Color a great... Continue Reading →