On Thursday, my former employer announced another round of layoffs–its third this year. But there were two big differences this time around. A larger number of people was affected: 200 now, versus 100 in January and 40 in February (all…
Category: TV
“The Website Is Down”
My new favorite web video series. (Thanks @feliciaday!) For best results, expand to full screen so you can actually read the various windows: ~CKL
TV Unplugged
Having watched the Academy Awards on Sunday over the air–for free, with a $15 UHF antenna–and having read Saturday’s Consumerist post about How To Cancel Cable Without Losing Your Favorite Shows, I felt it was a good time to review…
Golden Boys
“Boos and booze for Cohen and Gervais at Golden Globes,” Metro (UK) “So Kate Winslet’s got two Golden Globes. And hey, she also won a couple of awards tonight. Oh, what? It’s true!” I can only imagine what else Ricky…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Bachelor of Science”
Not my best story: “Bachelor of Science” at 512 Words or Fewer D didn’t like the ending, and Loren liked the original opening better. I wrote those three paragraphs last year sometime, and sat on them because I didn’t know…
Blasts From the Past
Back in the summer of 1991 (after I graduated high school), I hooked up a VHS VCR to a monaural VHS camcorder with flying erase head and manually edited together a music video using footage from my home-taped episodes of…
A Public Service Announcement
The Dr. Horrible DVD is now available for pre-order on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001M5UDGS/curtiscchensfree Happy Black Friday! ~CKL
Me and Ken Levine
I spent last weekend at Sitcom Room 3, where for two days I got to experience a simulation of the glamorous life of a TV comedy writer. (See? You’re laughing already.) As shown above, I was delirious happy enough after…
Why I wasn’t writing this weekend
Actually, I was writing; it just wasn’t noveling. I just finished two days in Ken Levine‘s Sitcom Room, which he gleefully and accurately describes on his blog as “hell-arity!” My excellent writing team consisted of this motley crew: Gary, a…