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My FX career was in hindsight shorter than a lot of others’ but it could have been way shorter than that had the kind of human resources policies that seem to be in vogue today been in place then. Shortly into my tenure, I was hauled into a daunting conference room where a prissy outside

Regular readers would be correct to observe that I’ve dedicated a disproportinate amount of musings to the foibles of S.W.A.T.  Guilty as charged.  It was a priority project when I was settling into my gig at Sony and getting it successfully renewed and sold was an ongoing battle pretty much through the end–and beyond.  It’s

The 90s were a great time for television.  Thanks to the outsized success of THE COSBY SHOW at a point when NBC and situation comedies were both in dire straits, the genre was resurrected and became prolific both in prime time and in rerun syndication.  There was an explosion of newly signed on and maturing

There’s only so much social media that even I can find the time to consume and engage with, and I’ll admit that my least visited platform is TikTok.  Not merely because I’m clearly not in its generational sweet spot, or the fact that one of the few videos I’ve uploaded was when my friend’s teenage

There’s a darn good reason for you to find the time and funds to take yourself to a movie theater this weekend, and it’s not just because their air conditioners tend to be functioning way better than mine.  Because every dime you spend toward supporting the feel-good effort of the summer–and perhaps longer–makes the decision

It’s said that the road to success is paved with good intentions, but lately I’ve been reluctant and, frankly, too cash-strapped to even get in the car and drive on it.  You already know what birthday months do to me and I suspect you’re even more fed up with that sad sack story than I