Lords of the Backstage
Okay. So it's two weeks later. But everyone knows the holiday season starts November 1st, so get off my back!We've been having a great round of meetings lately (new representation is awesome). Not only do you talk about the specific show in a meeting, but you also talk about television in general. We've had meetings where we've discussed independent business models, and meetings where we talked about network branding. This is particularly interesting in light of how well networks like USA are doing. Y'all know what constitutes a USA show. Characters Welcome and all that. And all of their shows seem to be working, partly because they have an extremely narrow focus on what type of

Invincible
Apparently, I produce 0.9 posts a week, which I found out when Google Reader suggested I might like my own blog. Way to go out on a limb, Google Reader! I wanted to get it back up to 1.0, but this has been a crazy month. Luckily for all y'all, I've been bookmarking interesting news and blog entries so I've got shit to talk about later.But all I'm going to talk about now is the Breeder's Cup last Saturday, when Zenyatta made the kind of history you just don't see. Any notion I had that I've seen greatness was totally blown out of the water when Zenyatta crossed the wire. I could wax rhapsodic and spew racing minutiae onto these pages but what I really wanted to do was try to put

Cosy Catastrophes
MAN, it's hard coming up with topics, which is why I thank people who publicly say stupid shit. Thanks, peoples. Much appreciated. The stupid shit responsible for this post comes courtesy of award-winning science fiction author Charles Stross. I haven't read Stross yet. He's been on my list for a long time, but Robert Charles Wilson and John Scalzi keep bumping him down. Anyway, he posted this thing about why he hates Star Trek, ingeniously titled "Why I Hate Star Trek." So I thought I'd take a look.In the interest of full disclosure, I don't hate Star Trek, but I don't consider myself a

Digitarian Riverbank
I've been delaying discussing the new season, which is why this post is so late. I was hoping to watch at least the first two episodes of everything but after ten minutes of one particular show, I just gave up. And no, I'm not going to say which new show utterly destroyed my enjoyment of TeeVee. Because I have to operate from the neutrality of "I love all television shows. You're all fucking geniuses." So well done, new television season. Everything's MAGNIFICENT!But then shit started to happen... shit that was centered around NBC, the network that gave you the MAGNIFICENTLY hilarious Jay Leno Show, every night at ten. All you have to do is find A CSI show, and then go up two ch

Quick Update
From now on, you will have to be registered to post comments. Sorry, but there won't be any more anonymous readers playing games here. It's not fair. For one of you in particular (AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), I can't take your attacks, threat or opinion seriously if you remain anonymous. What are you afraid of?