12-12-2007    Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal had an entire "Technology" section trying to explain why internet TV is not migrating to the living room TV.  They got it all wrong.  It's not complexity, cost, the cable or any of their other guesses. It's about freedom and proof that non-network controlled content is more important than HD, wide screen TV...except for sports. Internet TV is a quality joke, most is shot on cheap camcorders, not edited,  then compressed  so much that if blown up to  a wide screen, each  pixelized frame would  look like a Modrian.  Small is beautiful and a Mac is just infinitely more agile than a living room TV. It is about the four CEOs and their money baron owners who tell you what to think.  They are scared as hell of this wild west Internet TV which keeps taking a bigger and bigger bite out of their asses.   People are feed up with corporate  bullshit, such as Brittany Spears belly fat presented as "news"  and want some fucking truth, especially if that truth is to the point and funny.

12-19-2007       If comes as no surprise to me and probably most fans that SHOWTIME won 6 nominations for their earthshaking innovative programming, most notably “Californication”.   This is comic fiction as real life,  if only the world were fillled with such articulate iconoclasts instead of an unlimited sea of babbling uneducated conformists. I knew of David Duchovny because of that sci-fi series many liked, but as Hank Moody, he speaks for me. 
    I hope he wins.  He might; the foreign press loves to stick it to Hollywood, even when it’s very good...and Alec Balwin in “30 Rock” is very, very good.  But he’s just very funny.    Duchovny and "Californication" has raised the medium.