Yes, It's Monday... Again

Just killing time, riding the clock and avoiding reading chapter 9 of --------. "Procrastinating" they call it.

Yep. I'm procrastinating.

I've got all my work done -- I'm writing this from the station -- and I won't allow myself to read anything but -------- until I'm done (I'm still on Chapter 10 of the new Harry Potter book), and so I'm finding creative ways to avoid doing the work I need to do.

Well, I WAS finding creative ways to avoid doing the work I need to do. Now I'm sort of grasping for ANY way to avoid doing the work I need to do.

A couple of friends of mine turned me on to Neurotically Yours at www.illwillpress.com, and I went through every toon in the archive. Funny stuff. I'm gonna have to buy the dvds now! (I always hate it when I discover YET ANOTHER dvd that I feel I have to own.)

Then I impulsively bought (if I understand the product description correctly) 133 episodes of a radio series Rod Serling did in 1974 called THE ZERO HOUR. Apparently it was a series of novels adapted into 5 half-hour episode that aired Monday through Friday for a couple of years. If I understand it correctly, you had to listen all week to get the whole storyline, then the next week a new storyline (featuring different star) ran.

I believe that's how the first season went, and then the second season was simply 5 seperate stories starring the same featured player. And I don't know if it lasted past 2 seasons. But running Mon-Fri as it did, 2 years would have generated MANY episodes. (Like when they released G. I. JOE on dvd, they had to release each season in 2 volumes, because it was a Mon-Fri toon, with AT LEAST TWICE AS MANY episodes as any other TV series.)

So I think I have 133 episodes of this Serling show (AUDIO show!!!) I only discovered existed coming to me. Oh, and I only paid $10 for it!!!

Dude! SERLING RULES!!!

I knwo, I know, you're saying "What about NIGHT GALLERY! The dvds just came out and THAT WAS CRAP!" I haven't seen them, so I can't speak from personal experience, but I can tell you that Serling wrote and produced the pilot episode -- the episode that sold the series AND contained the legendary segment in which a very, very young Steven Spielberg directed a very old Joan Crawford -- and then the network COMPLETELY usurped control from Serling after that! So in other words, ONE EPISODE of NIGHT GALLERY represents Rod Serling's genius, and the rest is -- apparently -- crap.

And thus, I stand by my statement that ROD SERLING RULES!!!

Let's see... It's 1:13 am now. Forty-seven minutes till I can skate.

I probably should read...

NO! there's just NO WAY I can get more that a quarter of a chapter -------- finished before time to go home. So there's just no reason for even trying. (That and I don't wanna.)

Okay, now it's... 1:16 am. Damn! forty-four minutes still.

Time for a smoke break!