I also want to thank the USA Network, TNT, and a few of the other smaller networks for bringing "scripted television" back to the fore, where it belongs. I love White Collar and In Plain Sight. The major networks are too busy bringing us Dancing with the Stars and Survivor. I don't care for reality shows and have never watched one in its entirety. I have enough reality in my life.
Saw my first Kindle yesterday. Quite a bit thinner than I expected. When the price of content starts coming down, they will be almost irresistible.
So far, so good. The oil cap is holding. Please continue.
A look at the Indianapolis Colts for this season. I tend to agree with that sports pundit. Peyton Manning, alone, makes them serious contenders. I think they have to stop putting games on him to win but I agree that they have the team to beat in the AFC. Says here the power is in the NFC, though. The sports pundits think otherwise. We'll see.
55 days until football season ...
5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:
- Victim Of Changes - Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
- Stargazer - Rainbow - Rising
- Limelight - Rush - Chronicles [Disc 2]
- Knocking At Your Back Door - Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers [Bonus Track]
- Classical Gas - Mason Williams - Am Gold 1968
Quote of the Day
Did you ever wake up sober after a one night stand, and the person you're next to is layin' on your arm, and they're so ugly, you'd rather chew off your arm then risk waking 'em? That's coyote ugly.
Lil, Coyote Ugly
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "For the Writers Guild of America, West, Denis Faye asks Robert Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, for the truth about heists."
Two questions - two great answers. -Rob
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I'm not sure where it was, but a few years ago I read an article -- it was either by Dick Wolf (the Law & Order guy), or he was the primary focus of the article. Anyway, he railed on and on, and explained the situation in an easily understandable way (I can't help it that I don't remember the details), about how the three main networks got some seemingly minor deregulation through either Congress or the FCC, which resulted in said networks being able to produce a multitude of really cheap programming. This is why ABC, NBC, and CBS, are loaded up with so much crap programming. i.e., "reality shows." I think it had something to do with amount of time and amount of money they had to pay actors. I'm not sure. I wish I had saved the article. Maybe the infospigot will happen along and know something about about I'm trying to say. In any event, I believe networks like USA and TNT are taking up that slack -- also in a deregulated way.
I'm sure the networks are happy about those shows costing less to produce, Marie, but I think the public's appetite for this trash is what's driving this phenomenon.