October 2002

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I planned to bore you all with my thoughts about Fox's crappy baseball play-by-play coverage team, Steve Lyons and Tom Brenneman. I did because they are sucky. My plan, however, was cut short when I heard the news that one of my favorite shows, Off Centre, was cancelled by the WB.

I am wicked pissed off.

Canceling Off Centre is the world's way of telling me that my opinion does not count. You see, no one takes the time to write me to say that I suck, but the geniuses at the WB decide to do so by canceling my favorite show. You think I'm paranoid? Really? A few good people whip together a funny comedy for a bad network, then the network puts it in TWO bad time slots, and then are surprised that nobody sees it? I felt from the beginning that the network secretly wanted the show to fail. Their executives probably get paid well for poor ratings.

You people know that I am not a real TV columnist. I don't watch ABC, CBS, or NBC. I like to watch FOX, MTV, E!, and, until the other day, the WB. I don't have any institutional memory, and some people think I am too smart for the TV-reviewer racket, but I try anyway.

I hope you can excuse me for being hurt this month. I guess life is unfair, and I am just now finding out how unfair it can be.