Let’s return to the fight, this time from our sideline camera. I wish we could bring you the action close up, but our close up camera was axed in a manner of speaking–not due to budget cuts. This is a longer fight than we had for a few weeks, and it’s a fascinating display of tactics.

Today was about money, at least as I experienced it.

First of all, I paid the bookstore’s taxes. Deadline is Feb. 5, but I dread the experience so much I figured I’d just go ahead and file. One more week won’t make a lot of difference. Since most of our sales volume is textbooks for our school, exempt from sales tax in this state, we don’t really have to cough up a whole lot. It hardly seems worth the trouble. Not that I have any plans to skip it some year and see whether anybody notices.

I recall an old episode of “Death Valley Days” (why am I thinking about old TV westerns this week?). I think it was in the Ronald Reagan years or later (although for me “The Old Ranger” [Stanley Andrews] was always the proper host. When they replaced him with Ronald Reagan, I just assumed he’d died, but according to Wikipedia they simply fired him on account of his age. I guess nobody’d ever noticed before that The Old Ranger was… you know, old. So they brought in Reagan, who [this may surprise younger readers] was not always ancient. Then came Robert Taylor and Dale Robertson). Continue reading For a few dollars more →

New HBO competitor to launch online before broadcasting via cable or satellite. Studio 3 Networks is the effort of three major movie studios to create “an entirely new category of entertainment service for consumers that is unlike anything that currently exists.” The site will be called “epix” and allow Netizens to watch full length recent and classic movies from these studios as well as see “directors’ script notes, outtakes, auditions and other extras like trivia and games.”