I think it’s time I took my college experiences off my resume.
Damn I’m getting old

Some of you (oh man) may be too young to remember this, but this thing a bunch of us are gonna do tonight, sit in front of a TV while Lost comes on?
PEOPLE USED TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME.
You’d have to watch a show at the precise time it aired. And you’d watch with family, or with friends. The next day you’d talk to everyone you could about it, because, most likely, they’d watched it, too.
And yeah, it’s just TV, but it was also everyone doing the same thing at the very same time, and how that bound us together in a very specific way. We had a lot of differences, but everybody watched ER. Everybody watched Moonlighting. I wonder…maybe this is crazy, but maybe all of us having so many viewing options…maybe that’s helped split this country up into so many social pieces, so many segments that don’t really seem to understand each other, anymore.
Sure, it was for shows like MASH, or the Cosby Show, or Cheers, none of them Citizen Kane (or The Wire!!), but, really, it wasn’t about quality. It was about connection. Shared experience. Maybe we didn’t have the same views of the world, but we could all understand Murphy Brown.
So I’ll be glad to share this with y’all, tonight.
Also, I’ve been a Terry O’ Quinn fan since he was in The Rocketeer. I LOVE LOCKE!!!
A fantastic day with a great group of friends, now with a kick ass video to accompany it!
Explorer Club Adventure 2: The Dominator Shipwreck
A great Saturday adventure with an awesome group of people.
I think the deeper reason people are so inflamed by this petty war is that Conan in his own way has come to represent the aggrieved, the injured, the wrongly terminated. I think there is a sense in this country that giant corporations are ruining everything, even late night talk shows. Something so insignificant takes on greater importance because I think on some level, “The Tonight Show” actually has become a very flawed stand-in for all the jobs lost to corporate greed, arrogance, and stupidity. We see Conan as a victim because we feel as though, like us, he wasn’t given a fair shot. If a guy like that, a guy who has everything, can be downsized and demoted, what hope do the rest of us have?
Moreover Leno is installed back in his abdicated throne. It feels like a coup, a particularly unfunny coup. And above him, all the top brass still have their jobs. Just like all the top brass in every other failed or bailed-out corporation. It feels unfair. And it makes people mad.