Month: June 2018

My wife and I were watching one of our favorite tv shows last night, and I was closely watching the opening credits. That in itself tells you that I’m becoming increasingly attention deficit.  Anyway, I noticed something curious.  Under the title, “Executive Producer”, there were three names.  Then the title popped up again with two more names.  Next, a name pops up of someone that’s actually on the show listed by himself, again as “Executive Producer”.   That led me to wonder – what exactly do all these people do? Are there rankings of EP’s,  job descriptions or specific functions?  Is it possible for an EP to do virtually nothing and get paid?  That could be an ideal new career path for me.  All this fruitful speculation leads me to providing my readers with valuable information, much of which is totally made up by me, to assist you in understanding the complex and nuanced nature of media production. Continue reading “Roll the Credits”

This past few months, my wife and I have been working our way around the house cleaning out closets and reorganizing the vast amounts of “stuff’ that we’ve accumulated over the past forty plus years.  To be honest, I’ve been tackling the smaller spaces first because, well, the basement was daunting.  It’s looked something like Extreme Storage Wars since we moved here seventeen years ago, and only been getting progressively worse as we add “essential” bits of nothing. Stuff that you know you’ll never see again, don’t have room to display, but is just too great to give or throw away. (Our niece commented years ago that our house looked like “a Hallmark store”, so that gives you an idea.) Continue reading “Collecting “Stuff””