Sunday, May 28, 2017
Producer Afire
-No more this or that number of episodes by contract. Churn ‘em out! You churn, I pay! Simple!
-I’ll run outa people. And plots.
-What plots? Protagonist loses ALL THE TIME!
-Writers want him rarely win.
-Never! Didn’t Lucy always pull the football away so CHARLIE BROWN KICKS AT NADA AND GOES ON HIS ASS?
-Always. But...you can exhaust your actors too!
-Plug in lookalikes!
-Even for our anti-hero?
-Costume the new dude! FRENCH REVOLUTION, ROLLER DERBY!
-I get the gist. All the gists. Great wealth and artistic suicide!
-KEEP FUCKIN SPENDING! Better than sex.
Labels: anti-hero, artistic standards, Charlie Brown, loser, Lucy, Peanuts, series, taste, television, TV Series
Friday, February 15, 2013
What’s the Use of Television?
You produce the same derision
heading to ballgame or date or rally
all powdered up. We can’t all be on all
the time. Skip incipient fame for spiked
Mulligan Stew with your raucous buddies
and their wildly irrepressible whores.
Seek no more to be Lana
Turnered in the drugstore.
If we all get famous
nobody is.
Labels: fame, Lana Turner, television, TV
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Television Life
In Chad, Dr Z of Ed-
ucation Ministry sub-
limates radical bent
with favorite Italian
detectives, Colombo
and Montalbano. Here,
situation comedies
underline the quirks
friends see in us.
The world is TV
pure and simple.
Our lifetime shorter, murk-
y pond smaller, though
we're pleasing as odd,
blinking fish, quoted
and admired if, on
occasion, mocked.
In Chad, Dr Z of Ed-
ucation Ministry sub-
limates radical bent
with favorite Italian
detectives, Colombo
and Montalbano. Here,
situation comedies
underline the quirks
friends see in us.
The world is TV
pure and simple.
Our lifetime shorter, murk-
y pond smaller, though
we're pleasing as odd,
blinking fish, quoted
and admired if, on
occasion, mocked.
Labels: Columbo, Detective Series, Montalbano, situation comedies, television
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Divorce, Celestial
-Yeah she's going all right!
-Giant escalator into the rapturous sky!
-Something like that.
-And you?
-No chance!
-Pretty awful!
-Only if she takes the remote.
-Yeah she's going all right!
-Giant escalator into the rapturous sky!
-Something like that.
-And you?
-No chance!
-Pretty awful!
-Only if she takes the remote.
Labels: rapture, religion, television
