I'm taking today off to tend to the few things in life more important than blogging. I do have lots more to say about the Jerry Seinfeld matter but that'll have to wait. (I want to talk about — among other aspects of this tepid controversy — how a lot of this is not an argument about taste or Free Speech but economics.) I also have a bunch of questions from folks about how residuals are figured and tracked and such.
We continue to prep for Comic-Con. Also, there seems to be a new flurry of articles from folks who are convinced Comic-Con will, should or must move from San Diego to some other city. I stand by my prediction that it won't unless someone on the business side of the Convention Center down there does something really, really stupid. Yes, there are convention centers that hold more people but except maybe for Vegas, none of them come with as much hotel room availability. Las Vegas has its own set of problems starting with the July weather and the fact that we could never be one-one-hundredth as important to that city as we are to San Diego.
Of possible interest to late night followers is this article which says that the folks who used to watch Mr. Letterman have not migrated to a Jimmy. They seem to have stopped watching late night talk shows. Assuming they don't all scurry back to watch Colbert, it wouldn't surprise me to see some channel other than CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox start thinking about a late night show for that audience. There are channels like MeTV that cultivate an older audience. The folks who sell Rascal scooters and "I've fallen and I can't get up" buttons need somewhere to advertise. It would be a lower-budget situation than what the big boys have but I'll betcha someone could make the math work on it.
Back tomorrow. Or sooner if I have to post a damned obit for someone.