"Say, this isn't my refreshin' Minute Maid orange juice! Somebody replaced my glassful of Florida freshness with somethin' horrible! Looks like Gary and I need to go talk things over in the library…."

I've been close enough to some people in the industry to get a glimpse into the mindset of "we have this thing, or we've developed this thing, and we may as well use the hell out of it." They get it in their heads that it's cool and the audience is going to see it, especially if there is enough investment in it. Hence…

I'll give FS1 and FS2 credit as well for carrying IMSA sports-car races and hiring the commentators who have covered the series and its predecessors for years, but I hate the "we'll carry the first part of the race on FS1, then you'll need to switch to FS2 for the next part so we can show this other thing, and then…

Yep. Under his tenure FS1 and FS2 have become about unwatchable.

That's the exact quote Ferguson used (in an off-the-cuff response to a question), and I didn't know he was quoting someone else when he did. Thank you for the link - I'd gotten vague on how the saying went, but the sentiment is exactly how I would feel too.

I keep thinking of something I once heard Craig Ferguson say in an interview, that being a parent is like having your heart outside of your body. Beneath my grumpy introverted reasons why I don't want kids, you'd probably find the real reason would be that if I did, I would worry for their safety every waking moment…

It reached peak stupidity the day the yellow rental truck full of contested ballots was driven from South Florida to Tallahassee, and the local stations had helicopters following it up the Turnpike, O.J.-car-chase style. Then, as if that wasn't enough, the truck then went up on eBay a couple months later. (I was…

And then the drones play volleyball.

INSIDE: Ten recipes for Spotted Dick!

I once envied a then-very dear friend of mine because she seemed so at peace and so tuned to the world and all that, and I envied that kind of groundedness and happiness she seemed to radiate. Then I spent several days with her and found out just how much insecurity she was hiding under it all. Maybe Gwennie is much…

Plus Viceroy has the thinking man's filter, but the smoking man's flavor.

(fires up "Land of Confusion" music video)

If you hadn't recommended The Invisible Bridge I would have. Perlstein's three books thus far (Before the Storm, Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge) are absolutely vital reading if you want to understand how we got where we are now. He's working on the next volume, which IIRC will take the story through the Carter…

And in between, the call was WRCA-TV.

My moment of sick/interesting: realizing that the Frank Sinatra song "High Hopes," which JFK's campaign used in the 1960 campaign, came from a production called A Hole in the Head.

Trivia: The studio in the picture above is 8G at 30 Rock, the second studio in Radio City to be converted for television, seen in 1947 or 1948. It's now the home of Seth Meyers' program. Those goofy-looking cameras were experimental units built by NBC (not by RCA) and were used only briefly.

Agreed.

And Meet the Press and its competitors no longer fulfill their original mission. Used to be these programs had a moderator with a rotating panel of actual working journalists from around the nation who would ask reasonably demanding questions of the guests, sort of like a mild version of oral exams in grad school. Now…

Oh, yeah. About 15 years ago on a visit to Arizona a friend and I stopped in at a Fry's and I was amazed to see Kroger products on the shelves. Spending time in Alaska and the Seattle area have made me very good friends with Fred Meyer, so no matter where I go, there I am, Freddy's card at the ready….

Between this and Chancellor Puddinghead's comment above, it gave me the horrid vision of Dorf on Sex being a thing.