by Larry Brody
My writing hero talked to Mike Wallace back in 1959, and Rod wasn’t exactly a happy camper:
Thanks, Robin!
My writing hero talked to Mike Wallace back in 1959, and Rod wasn’t exactly a happy camper:
Thanks, Robin!

We all know that Facebook keeps an enormous amount of information on all of its users.
One of the bits FB collects is how many viewers any given status update has, and there’s even a way to find out. (No, I don’t know how to do it deliberately. I just know that whenever I go to the TVWriter™ FB page – or whatever they call those things now – it tells me how many people saw each post…and then, for purposes of comparison, I assume, it tells me how many people have seen what it says is, “your most popular post.”

So there I was, talking to my friend Curtis Gwynn about the misery of pitch meetings, only to have him stop me and pull the trigger on the question I’d always been afraid to ask myself:
“C’mon, LB,” Curtis said, “spill. What’s the real reason you hate these meetings so much?”