You’ve seen some great reviews here by others at TMV — but you should have been seeing more reviews — the ones I promised I myself would be doing…the regular CD, movie, DVD and book reviews. BUT:
Due to a series of personal complications since January, three trips to the East Coast, subsequently falling behind on a zillion things, and now being in a season with extensive car travel (you can’t post while stuck in traffic heading up to LA), in addition to some technical issues and continued plans to upgrade our server, I’m way behind on reviews I announced in posts here and told some folks in emails that I was going to write.
This will change very soon, hopefully, with the first of many regular (some long-delayed) reviews starting this week and increasing with regularity. These reviews could include some unusual topics such as offbeat books, looks at modern and classic comedy on DVDs and TV (we carry a lot of posts on unintentional comedy — those are the ones that quote politicians making promises).
So stay tuned. And, on a personal note from me to U, sorry for my own delay..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.