Karma's a bitch

Omnia Gallia, right?

If you get that, you're way ahead.

I used to love Jay Leno's segment called "What's my Beef?", a forum for complaining about the things that annoy him. It was random and disjointed, and in homage to that, apropos of nothing, let me begin:

A lot of television production people, especially those who toil in the basic cable programming end of the spectrum, use the term "film" as a verb, noun and adjectival modifier in describing their activities, as in " we'll be filming in your area" and "our film crew broke your toilet..." etc.

To paraphrase Joe Biden, I know film crews, and you, senator, are no film crew. You wouldn't know a can of 5298 if it hit you in the ground glass, or which end of a 435 might benefit from a set of primes.

The biggest difference, however, isn't the plasticine celluloid through which light passes, but the organizational approach to producting programming. Film crews are a collection of tightly ordered departments that cohese between and among themselves. TV is a spastic pastiche, a spastiche.

But, as indicated above, this means naught. Lack of cohesion is as freeing as a typhoon that wipes clean the land-it levels everything, is full of sound and ennui, and ultimately, signifies nothing.

And don't get me wrong- I'm blessed to have creative and hardworking collaborators; it's society's fault/ the result of market-driven economics, etc.

And remember what Brutus said: "Don't worry dude, I got your back".