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Jul 7, 07:39 pm: And now, a moment for the Emmy's
I know this blog is about nonprofits and technology. And that I haven’t been here in a while. And that it’s supposed to be focused so that I can readership and credibility. Fine. But can we talk TV for just a minute?
I live in Northern California and that I work for a nonprofit and that means that I shoudl hate TV and make comments about not watching it and say that I get mesmorized by it when I’m forced into connection with it in some public place. Or that I secretly watch in hotels when on business trips. Or if I own a TV it’s a small black-and-white that’s jammed in a closet that I only take out to watch documentaries about the civil rights or Hitler like that character that Barbara Hersey lived with in Hannah and Her Sisters.
I’m a Southern California by birth and inclination. I love TV. There I’ve said it. The TV is my family room. We have another in our bedroom. Sometimes we run into the bedroom at night, during commercials, to make sure that we don’t miss any piece of Scrubs, say. I record. I watch. I think about TV. There are shows (Sports Night, anyone?) that are a part of how I think about my life in the same way I’ve thought about novels.
So, TV. Edie Falco not nominated? What the hell? Do the Emmy voters watch TV? She had some beautiful, beautiful moments in last seasons the Sopranos. Her trip to Paris? Freakin’ Emmy moments all over the place. But that’s just one episode. It’s the whole damn season and the whole damn show. She can tell more, looking out a window or over a bridge, than…well, I don’t more than what but a lot that’s what.
