A Statement About Why It's Been A While (Again...)

OK, so here's the thing: There is nothing going on. And the little that is going on is depressing and terrible and means that Televisionland is heading toward some kind of irreconcilable shift. Let's recap: The producers say the writers are being hyper-demanding babies, and the writers are saying the producers are being cheap bastards. Fair enough on both counts. The fact that neither side is willing to give in enough to attempt to fix what will now be not one, but two disrupted seasons of television (at least), and save an industry that is already having serious problems, is mind blowing in it's sheer selfish stubborn-ness.

Also, there is a speculation that ths Oscars are going to be cancelled (theoretically they can go on, but I assume Jon Stewart is a member of the WGA, which means he probably can't even take on the monumental job of writing the show by himself... he'd might be all right if he jumped on stage and ad-libbed the whole thing...) ANYWAY, saying the Oscars will be cancelled is like telling me Christmas is cancelled and I can't have a birthday for 10 years. I'm not pleased.

To stave of depression, everyone is hereby ordered to go see Juno, because as soon as she is allowed to write again, Diablo Cody is going to be the Next Big Thing. That is, if they ever put the thing in wide release. Whatever.



(Sorry, I hope to come back and talk about the best Christmas films in a much more cheerful manner sometime in the very near future).