Between work, travel, the holidays, the caucuses and primaries, and another project I’ve been trying to launch, I just haven’t had a lot of time to write, but I wanted to share a new endeavor I’ve undertaken.  NCTA (the day job) has launched a new telecom policy blog at CableTechTalk.com.
CableTechTalk will give the industry a [...]

This may make you blow chow.
Trying to shout over Whoopi [Goldberg] and her other gabbing [The View] co-hosts and excited audience members, Barbara [Walters] turned to Guest [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and said she has heard Whoopi say before that she’d “do Paul Newman.”
“And I think she’d like to do your husband as well,” Walters [...]

Well, it’s that time again.  Time for TV execs, with only one week of ratings are already eyeing shows for mid-October executions.  The good folks over at Brilliant But Cancelled have not yet started their “Death Watch“, but it should be firing up any moment now (unless they fund a better way to make a [...]

It’s been a bad week to be sick. With so much celebrity embarrassment on parade, not having the energy to trash them is really troubling.
Let’s set the wayback machine for the VMAs last week. This show had it all - award winners trashing the network that hosts the awards, has-been rockers duking [...]

Ok, I tried to watch America’s Got Talent last year and couldn’t get into it.  It was like watching a really long, tedious version of The Gong Show.  It was too painful to become invested in.  When it came on again this year, I didn’t start watching until much later, and am glad I did.  [...]