TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, aims his inks at the greatest issue in the history of mankind. As far as we’re concerned, not only is he one of the bravest Big Thinkers around, he’s also one who’s got things pretty darn right.
See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HEREread article
Long before I got into the television business, back when I was a television viewer, I would go off on a rant about cop shows at a moment’s notice. “Why are people’s lives always in danger?” I would shout. “Why does TV always have someone looking down the business end of a gun?”
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Now that I’ve been writing a good long while, I know the answer. The reason television gives us so many cop shows and medical shows and lawyer shows is that in those situations something very important is always at stake – usually someone’s life. You don’t get higher stakes than that, and without the risk of a very big loss, all the audience can do when it sees your hero being agitated is yawn and say, “Who cares?”read article
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.read article
Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™. As usual, our day is beginning with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.