Not to point a finger, but I'm just reading Ken Tucker over at EW on Leno and O'Brien and all that. He's one of many people who mention Craig Ferguson as being heir apparent to Letterman's slot ( Read more... )

Now they're recommending I become friends with people with whom I have fewer than two friends in common. Two fewer, to be precise. How ... random.

If you were thinking about giving anybody the DVD of the Radio City Hall Christmas Show that PBS is currently using for its begathon, be warned that it is astonishingly awful. If the point is to see the Rockettes perform, do we really need 27 camera changes per minute? (That's not hyperbole -- I counted a couple of times.) You want to be amazed ( Read more... )

Happy Black Friday. A little research confirmed my guess that today's nickname derives from a negative place, so I feel I have some license to be crabby ( Read more... )

I just received an e-mail from a client who mentioned that she wanted to call, but didn't have my phone number with her. I was preparing to mock her for not looking in a phone directory or calling information when it occurred to me to wonder: When I ported my land line number to a cell phone, did I vanish from phone listings ( Read more... )

From Salon, reprinted surreptitiously ( Read more... )

My friend David went to see the current "West Side Story."

http://davidellisdickerson.com/2009/09/who-cut-the-frabber-jabber-west-side-story-at-the-palace-theater/

Clearly, Facebook and I have different understandings of the word "friend."

I've had a bug up my butt about the stupidization of "The Fantasticks" for years. Details below, but first, go listen to at least a little bit of "My Girl." We'll get back to it shortly. http://snipurl.com/rn6u6Read more... )

From the boilerplate for a consumer survey for which I did not sign up (*survey provider's name withheld ( Read more... )