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Turns out that even the most jaded, snarky, negatively-minded minions (yeppers, that would be us) want time off for the Fourth of July.
It took a little convincing (don’t worry, LB lovers, the bruises we gave him won’t show unless you’re on, you know, more intimate terms with him than most folks we know), but starting today and continuing through Sunday TVWriter™ posts will be appearing per our slightly more limited Weekend Article Presentation Schedule instead of our usual weekly amount.
But have no fear, we’ll be back at full strength on Monday…assuming we still possess enough digits to manipulate the keyboard after having to set off our own fireworks because our local municipalities have cancelled their usual holiday displays. (Goddam Budget sequester crap has caused all kinds of fun stuff to get shitcanned this year. And we were so sure that it wouldn’t affect our happy hobbity lives!)
…And you don’t. Because we tossed something into the show’s Kickstarter hopper awhile back and you didn’t.

Oh look! While we were writing this – for reals – we also got the original sound effects for the BOOTH and the Optic Pocketknife by Michael Kammes. Listening to ’em with great pleasure now, as we type.
Found on BasicInstructions.Net
(which has lots of other cool, um, instructions)
Um, in a word, yeah. We think so. And the geniuses at ArsTechnica.Com seem to agree:

Right now, traditional TV and media and the Internet exist in uneasy tension. It’s far from an all-out war, but by no means have the two come to an agreement. The Internet is affecting everything from the services we use to watch conventional TV shows to the new hardware we do it on: laptops, tablets, and smartphones.