Maybe you’ve seen the promos for Undercover Boss calling it the #1 New Show. Maybe you’ve seen the ratings. I’ve been mocking those promos mercilessly. I couldn’t believe CBS chose to give this show the post-Superbowl slot. Then last night I got sucked into an episode at the gym. I found myself feeling the same way about …
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, …
(Image from ABC.com) I actually really enjoyed that episode of Lost on Tuesday night. It felt for the first time that we were actually getting somewhere. Questions answered rather than just more questions. But the whole Richard episode, at every moment when he declared over and over again how much he wanted to live – …
