I Like To Think That I Differ

Certain Kinds Of Intimacy Emerge On A Phone Call That Might Never Occur If You Were Sitting Right Next To The Other Person.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.

We Have More Information - A Glut Of Information - Than Ever Before, And Perhaps Less Knowledge. That's What's Peculiar. And The Only Way You Can Deal With It, I Suppose, Is To Make Fun Of It. I Would Rather Watch Comedy Central For The News Than I'd Like To Watch Any Other Program On Television. Maybe That Shows You The State Of Affairs.

There Is Only One Direction. (down.) There Is Only One Color. (black.) And There Is Only One Number (zero.)