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Last week I paid a visit to Williams Street, the onetime carpet warehouse and home of Adult Swim, the brilliant cable sublet that marked its 15th anniversary this month. (They didn't call it that back then.)
Here's the related story on Adult Swim and its big news.
Click on the neon thingy to see the slideshow.
1. Roger Ebert. Of all the wonderful things I learned during recent media coverage of his post-speaking life, this detail stood out: He wants to do another TV show, presumably using his new personalized computer voice. Roger that.
2. Elinor Burkett. On a very boring Oscars night, I admit I got a kick out of seeing the Zimbabwean who's been feuding with Roger Ross Williams over the film “Music by Prudence” leap onto stage and Kanye his acceptance speech. I am woman, hear me roar!
3. Local TV stations. For obliterating Monday's nightly newscasts to carry a high-speed car chase, you reminded me to check out iTunes, where I found free podcasts of the same network newscasts for my new iPod. Thanks, broadcasters!
… and what's not
1. The FCC. Despite setbacks in court and total indifference to the issue outside a few religious groups, the agency is going to start into its million-plus backlog of indecency complaints.
2. Richard Fatherley, RIP. No one did more to burnish Kansas City's place in radio history -- and no one in the business who got some of his “fatherly advice” forgot it.
3. Bob Wormington, RIP. The first general manager of Channel 41, its only GM for 23 years, presided over one of America's great indie stations. An early protégé of his, Mike Vrabac, took over as GM on Monday.
