As I've been doing the past two weeks or so, I thought I'd update readers on my coming books. Unfortunately, I battled a pretty nasty cold last week, so I wasn't quite as productive as I would have liked. I'm through page 50 on two books with regard to adding smart aleck commentary for my footnotes. I'm feeling slightly better than I had been, so hopefully this will be a much more productive week. Once again, my goal is to get through all 185+ footnotes this week (yes, I like my research - a bit too much at times, it seems). I'll then have to proofread and edit the two books yet again, along with a few other finishing touches, before I'll be ready to receive my proof copies. With last week's setback and my birthday coming up on the 28th of this month, I'm guessing the books won't become available until early March at the very earliest. It's then my goal to have all four coming books out by the end of spring/start of summer. At that point, hopefully I can give my brain a little bit of a vacation (if it lets me). Well, that's the news for now. I'll be sure to send along another update next Monday. Back to work I go...
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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