22… 23…24

I can’t help it: I am hopelessly in love with 24. It had me from “Hello… is that a nuclear cloud over Los Angeles?"

24 has got so many things right-right-right, but especially its unapologetic approach to character development (and denouement) and the fact that it understands how its audience wants information: fast.

I heard the other day that – in the sixties – Laugh-In had to slow down its rapid-fire joke delivery… the fast pace actually made some viewers ill! By contrast, today’s viewer is “built for speed” and can’t get their info fast enough… and 24 understands that. I now find myself actually frustrated to watch slower-paced “action” shows. Are you listening, CBS?

I’m beside myself over the fact that I will be out of the country for the next three weeks and will miss the 24 season finale (which I’ll see on Tivo-delay.) But please… please… don’t tell me the ending…

(Are YOU listening, Howard...? ;-))

Comments

[dana]

Dana bonstrom
DB,

How are you??? I hope all is going great!!!

Scott moved in 3 months ago and it going super well. Financials not to wonderful, but I think I may have found interesting opportunities online.

Would love to connect.

Love,

Christine

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Dana Bonstrom wrote:Scott
Ignorant
Illiterate
Mentally ill
Pathetic
Harassment
Failure
Moronic
Transparent
Taunts
Laughable
Underscore
Clownishness
Impotence
Acknowledge
Distasteful
Effeminate
Diminutive
Ineffectual
Dysfunctional
Deranged
Repressed

So let's try them together:

Scotty is an ignorant, illiterate, and clearly mentally ill individual whose attempts at harassment have been a pathetic failure. His moronic and transparent taunts only underscore his clownishness and impotence. acknowledge the distasteful, and oddly effeminate, nature of his messages. This diminutive and sadly ineffectual individual is not only dysfunctional, but deranged, and likely a repressed homosexual.

[dana]

DB,

How are you??? I hope all is going great!!!

Scott moved in 3 months ago and it going super well. Financials not to wonderful, but I think I may have found interesting opportunities online.

Would love to connect.

Love,

Christine

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Dana Bonstrom wrote:Scott
Ignorant
Illiterate
Mentally ill
Pathetic
Harassment
Failure
Moronic
Transparent
Taunts
Laughable
Underscore
Clownishness
Impotence
Acknowledge
Distasteful
Effeminate
Diminutive
Ineffectual
Dysfunctional
Deranged
Repressed

So let's try them together:

Scotty is an ignorant, illiterate, and clearly mentally ill individual whose attempts at harassment have been a pathetic failure. His moronic and transparent taunts only underscore his clownishness and impotence. acknowledge the distasteful, and oddly effeminate, nature of his messages. This diminutive and sadly ineffectual individual is not only dysfunctional, but deranged, and likely a repressed homosexual.

[Dana Creative]

Now, with this seriously sick bastard behind bars and facing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation hearing, I feel I can finally re-enter the world — worlds, that is, both real and virtual. Part of that process will be an assessment of the damage done, about most of which I can only speculate.
This experience has reinforced my conviction that the world is divided—not necessarily evenly—into skeptics and accepters. Skeptics: you know who you are, and I thank you
Dana Bonstrom