My April Storytellers Unplugged essay went live this morning: Saying No. It’s almost just for me, as a reminder of this “promise” I’m making to myself, so I can go back to it in future weeks and months and say: see, that’s what you’re supposed to be doing. We’ll see how it works out.
I sent a copy of The Dark Tower Companion to Ron Howard this morning and no, I didn’t send it to Mayberry RFD. That would be silly, because Opie wasn’t on that show, except for the first episode, I think. Deep down, I have a hope that the Dark Tower movie will move into production and he and Akiva Goldsman will think this is such a great book that they’ll decide to use it as a reference for their work and they’ll invite me out to meetings and I’ll get to visit the set. Pipe dreams!
I liked the bigfoot episode of Castle this week. Better than the bigfoot stuff, though, was the trap Castle set to catch whoever was stealing food from his fridge. Seeing Alexis turn into a Smurf and then storm out of the apartment was a great gag.
We watched the pilot episode of Inspector Lewis last night. It dates back to 2005, which we were shocked to realize is almost 10 years ago now. The computer tech looked a little out of date, but at least they all had cell phones. A good twisty, turny mystery and a couple of nice nods to Morse, including a music scholarship set up in his (first) name. We’ve seen a few of the more recent episodes, but this is the first time we’ve dipped into the box set of early seasons I bought last fall.
Dexter is back at the end of June for its (unconfirmed) last season, and now we learn that Breaking Bad will be back on August 11 for its final mini-season. But first: Survivor, with the wildest tribal council ever, according to Cochran. That’s saying something.
