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Coroner Gillmor
TV business is changing Good read in the NYT on who's got the power in the business of producing a TV series. Sounds like it's shifting from the network to the studio as non-broadcast revenues play a bigger role. Each episode of 24 costs an incredible $3 million. Well, they got two bucks from me this week to help out with expenses. No sales tax. I haven't heard much about changing the way sales tax is collected for shopping sites lately. The question seems to linger, but it seems like the increasing sales of ringtones and music downloads would push the issue up on somebody's agenda. Seems like state governments would be salivating over getting a cut, just like the TV networks are. Maybe when the Democrats get back in power they'll figure out a way to tax it. Another way it's changing On a recent Gillmor Daily, Dan Farber mentioned how CSI will be inviting fans to mash up the video. I think it was CSI. I'll listen to that part again because I'd like to read more about it anyway and I'll report back if I got the show wrong. It was a show I don't watch so it didn't sink in very well. That stance is 180 degrees from the way George Lucas deals with Star Wars fan sites, isn't it? There's a revolution going on. And yes I am a Gillmor fan. My send-up isn't in any way meant to be mean-spirited. When I thought of the Munchkin coroner-->Gillmor connection it was just too perfect not to act on. Oh come on Paul Bettany as Silas in the DaVinci Code? So the coloring is about right but the character is supposed to be repulsive. He's the guy who played John Nash's imaginary roommate in A Beautiful Mind? If you are thinking you'd better quick read Da Code before seeing Da Movie, I'd recommend going another route. Read Umberto Ecco's Foucault's Pendulum instead. Lots of Templar conspiracy stuff and a good mystery there too, except it's done more tongue in cheek just as it deserves to be treated. I think I believe bits of it. Maybe. My grandpa was a Mason and when I was a little kid I went to the induction ceremony for some level he'd achieved. Weirded me out to see my grandma and her friends in white gowns walking patterns on the floor with candles. It felt very pagan. People do love ceremony, don't they? Conspiracies are fun to think about. |
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