September 11, 2001. I remember staying up past midnight, flipping through my hundred or so cable channels. Everything covered the attack. I went for a walk. TV light flickered from windows of every house. Everyone was up but nobody was out. Except one guy, on a payphone, highlighted by a street light glowing over him, speaking [...]
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It’s becoming apparent that my video persona is incurably idiotic – perhaps to compensate for the over-seriousness of my writing… Or maybe it’s simply the idiocy of my non-writing persona (i.e. the real me). MPG
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I have other things I should be working on but it’s impossible to resist getting into this discussion. The catalyst of the conversation is CTVglobemedia’s decision to cancel the A Morning show from the lineups of A Channels nationwide. In London that decision carried with it 48 jobs from the station (and this comes hot on the [...]
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Inside the Meltdown, Tuesday night at 9:00 on PBS Frontline. “Many Americans still don’t understand what has happened to the economy,” FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk says. “How did it all go so bad so quickly? Who is responsible? How effective has the response from Washington and Wall Street been? Those are the questions at the heart [...]
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So I finally started watching The Wire. Went out and rented the first three DVD’s on Monday. I’m about to watch the tenth episode now. I’m ridiculous-addicted — living in Wire World. This is why I’m not writing as much as last week — which is maybe a good thing: one obsession displaces another. I’m normally cynical about almost [...]
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Check out the David Letterman interview in the current “Golden Age of Comedy” issue of Rolling Stone, which looks interesting enough I almost bought the magazine for the first time in years. Here’s some of what Dave had to say: On The Hills – “When we were going to have them, I started watching the [...]
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