Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Control

To quote TVWriter™ minion’s Very Close Friend the Freudian Psychiatrist:

It isn’t the situations you find yourself in that are stressing you out, it’s your reactions to them!

That being the case, here’s some good advice about how to handle your self-sabotaging mind and, you know, get some productive writing or reading or viewing or even living done. read article

LB: TV’s White Guy Crisis

by Larry Brody

Speaking of the 2021 Cultural Revolution (as we were on this very site just yesterday), a TVWriter™ frequent visitor has sent me a link to another insightful analysis of the problem.

Kathryn VanArendonk’s article comes at the inclusion situation from a new angle, starting with the masterful heading:

TV’s White Guys Are in Crisis

And taking it from there with: read article

PJ McIlvaine: Some Things Never Change

by PJ McIlvaine

(NOTE FROM LB: It’s been far too long since PJ McIlvaine, who just as the pic above tells us, is indeed a “Dragon of Magical Things” (and a most powerful one at that) graced this website and we are sooo glad to have her back, even for just this tasty little teaser.)

Write. read article

LB: Real Forensic Pathologist Rates 11 TV& Movie Autopsy Scenes

The show HOUSE always went to the edge. How’s this for a title: “Alive During an Autopsy.” Aargh!

How real do you think filmic autopsies are?

Seems to me that none of out here in viewerdom is qualified to judge. I mean, what are the criteria?

OTOH, it’s a pretty bet that Dr. Joye Carter, with over 30 years of experience in the field, knows the standards. Let’s see what she has to say. read article

LB: Looking for a whole new way of thinking?

A Sort of a TV Series Review
by LB

Current cultural revolution got you down? Not getting what everyone younger than, oh, 40ish, is bitching about this time around?

Despair about what appears to be the destruction of a perfectly fine civilization is par for the course for people of a certain age. I know this because I’ve experienced it myself, from just about every angle. But I’m here to tell you, my friends, that understanding is just a click away. On Netflix, believe it or not. read article