I invite you to sit down in front of your television set... I assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
-- Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC

Saw this at the tail end of a friend's e-mail. Wasteland, it is. Sometimes though, when you come up with work that strives to be much better than it can actually be, it makes you excited and proud to be part of something new. Sometimes it's just routine -- make the action continuous, workable for everyone involved. Somebody from work once said that television (and writing for it) is like pulling out tissue paper out of a box. You just have to keep pulling out the sheets and then discard it afterwards. So much for longevity.