Someone’s got to think the big thoughts. Plus, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the best Charlie Brown holiday special of them all.
I just did a plug right there.
For my book, Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins Father Knows Best: 50 Poems About TV, TV-Watching and the Existential Sadness of Conan O’Brien.
Pretty smooth, if I do say so myself.
By the by, The Star Wars Holiday Special aired on TV for the first—and last time—36 years ago this week.
TV Poems is the new site and official home of Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins Father Knows Best: 50 Poems About TV, TV-Watching and the Existential Sadness of Conan O’Brien (Inverted Pyramid). Stop by, and figuratively say hello.
Today is the first day of fall. Monday was the first day of the fall-TV season.
Due to climate change, the fall season is looking different—researchers say as temperatures rise foliage will burst into autumn colors later than usual (although, on the plus side, the brilliant colors will last longer).
Due to climate change of another kind, the fall-TV season is likewise looking different.
TV Guides that used to be big and thick and well-thumbed-through are now strictly the stuff of eBay auctions.
Network promos that deployed a squadron of hot-air balloons to elevate their stars are now strictly the stuff of obscure YouTube clips.
The very tradition itself, the very idea of an annual roll-out of multiple new series (most of which are destined to become pricey failures), the very notion that audiences have nothing better to do than to (pardon the expression) wait for networks to bestow upon them fresh product is an “archaic” throwback” and “a vestige of a fading business.”
Climate change, it’s real. And it’s everywhere.
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Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins Father Knows Best: 50 Poems About TV, TV Watching and the Existential Sadness of Conan O’Brien, as featured in Shelf Unbound, now available on Amazon.
“Sylvia Plath Totally Ruins ‘Father Knows Best,'” a poem from my fine Inverted Pyramid e-book of the same name, is excerpted in the February/March 2014 issue of Shelf Unbound, the book-review magazine.
The poem is found on page 29. The e-book, a collection of poems about TV, growing up, TV, growing older and more TV, is on sale at Amazon.
Joal Ryan 