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. The realm of video games is open to all kinds of heated debate. For... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor
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 are some deaths in the world of the media that simply require a... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Rebecca Black and "Friday"
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. Let’s take a minute or two to consider the latest digital music sensation, Rebecca... Continue Reading →
Jamestown Story – The Day the Aliens Landed
In the end it was nothing at all like in the movies. The space ship from another planet didn't choose New York or London or Moscow. Bolts of energy didn't vaporize landmarks or disintegrate tanks. There were no little green men or big silver robots or musical exchanges of ideas. It didn't even look “right”.... Continue Reading →
At the movies
Zombieland (2009)- Three things to know about this movie: It is incredibly disgusting with bodily fluids flying in all directions It is rather profane. Lotsa bad language It is VERY funny. Those probably don't seem like they go together but they do. The gore only has a couple really stomach wrenching moments and they're real... Continue Reading →
View From the Phlipside – Miracle Whip
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 →