It’s Not Heat, It’s The Toxicity

Tom sent me a note: “I don’t know if they weigh as heavily with you as they do with me–particularly concern me. One is climate change.”

Joe Paterno in Tokyo

Jo Pa in Japan would be a different story entirely.

Boldly Going Where Only Drones Have Gone Before

Take a moment to decide whether or not you want to boldly to go where no man has gone before.

First Impressions, Ten Years Later

The smell, that’s what I remember most.

Take This Out of the Ballgame

It time to strike out this awful logo.

Resolute in 2011

New Year’s resolutions for a new decade to bring us back to a better time.

Only the Lonely

When you grow up as an only child, and a bizarrely precocious one at that, you have to come up ways to get feedback…to interact…to make friends. And if the homefront is a bit stormy, with little input or much in the way of role models, the ante is upped. You gotta look somewhere. Or [...]

Alpha Male, Omega Man

Chuck is dead. Chuck was a demi-god. A seer, a force…a prophet. This is a proposal for a broadcast doco for AMC or TCM on Chuck that never quite made it to production. I post it today in memoriam of The Chuck. CHARLTON HESTON: ALPHA MALE, OMEGA MAN © JP Sottile 10.11.2002 From 1941 to [...]

Name Dropping

I’ve always been a credit watcher. Being a thoroughgoing child of TV and long-standing information hoarder, the credits at the end of the show presented an excellent opportunity to absorb and be absorbed. Sometimes, it was just because I liked the closing theme song. Remember when theme songs meant something? Well-written, catchy signature tunes that [...]

The One

She’s “the one.” Has been. Always will be. Much maligned over the years, she always accepts me. Not in spite of my faults, but because of ‘em. The Whore of Babylon. The city personified as a woman full of Biblical wrath. Washington, D.C. I have been there nearly two out of the last four months. [...]