A couple of days ago TVWriter™ posted a video interview with Aereo investor/brains behind the whole thing Barry Diller and mentioned that the battle between him and NewsCorp/Rupert Murdoch over whether Aereo is legal was a dick fight of the highest order.
Now the Great TV Satan himself, CBS’s Les Moonves has entered the fray. He’s siding with NewsCorp, of course, cuz there’s no $$$ in it for him or CBS in going Aereo’s way.
Well, what else do you call it when two world famous asswipes dick duke it out?
In this case, the dicks are Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch, each of whom could easily claim to be the World’s Asswipe Champ.
No, really.
The late, lamented big guy, master of the 8000 word long sentence and 225 page digression, has been a literary idol since people first heard rumors of the existence of his Oh God this is too long don’t make me read it controversial paean to self-absorption, much praised and even more discussed novel Infinite Jest. But all that time we thought he was human.
And now it turns out that he was also an animated hero, like He-Man, say, but without the action figures. It further turns out that he had a lot of interesting thoughts to express…and that when he spoke he somehow managed to express them much more concisely and clearly than when he wrote.
…And I’m pleasantly surprised by both of them.
You guys know how I always expect the worst. Look forward to it, actually, cuz it’s so much fun piling on. But last time around COMMUNITY made me smile. And my girlfriend, who’s a major Dan Harmon fan, even laughed.
I never thought very highly of Klascky-Shupo Animation.
RUG RATS?
DUCKMAN?