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I probably should be a bigger fan of Steve Carell’s that I’ve been up till now.  I’ve  already been crystal clear that I wasn’t a huge fan of THE OFFICE and I can’t say I fall into the demo that anointed Judd Apatow as the definer of Gen X comedy with THE 40 YEAR OLD

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As I so often do in these musings, I confess that I have more than a few guilty pleasures when it comes to everything from media to cuisine.  In the immortal words of the esteemed Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy, “I’m a man, I’m 40”.  Well, way more than that these days. And I’ll

I’m having yet another frustrating and exhausting week so far, and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna improve any time soon.  So I definitely wasn’t paying attention to what in the world of fast food lovers was a seminal moment earlier this week when McDonald’s technically introduced what had supposedly been a huge European hit,

Time once again for moi to fit in a little crow with my increasingly selective diet. In hindsight, we’ve probably been a little harsh on the Artists Formerly Known As NBC Cable, a.k.a. Versant.  In the first days of their technical self-existence we were admittedly more than a tad bearish on how they were faring. 

There couldn’t be two less likely candidates to have overlapping audiences than the respective series launches that occurred in prime time last night.  On the ancient-skewing CBS, with the compromised 60 MINUTES as a lead-in, was the latest entry into the YELLOWSTONE-verse–and the first that actually was premiering on what used to be called a