And Now His Watch Is Vended

TV critic Alan Sepinwall the other day shared that he’s been let go by Rolling Stone.



I’d already been meaning to change the link on his name in my Friends & Favorites
list, at the bottom of the blog’s sidebar, from his author page at the RS website to the landing page for his What’s Alan Watching? newsletter on Ghost. Just a short while ago he announced that his free dispatch, usually out weekly on Fridays and until recently hosted by Substack, would soon be supplemented by a paid tier. Now his plan is for two paid tiers: One will carry the sort of material he’d been writing for HitFix, then Uproxx, and for the past 7+ years Rolling Stone; the other will have the content originally conceived for the premium add-on, with access to a Discord server for ongoing conversations. I’ve followed him since recaps of the show that inspired his logo, and obviously I recommend subscribing or there’d be no point to this post.

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Neuro Diversions

So there he was, Richard Dawson, in all of his ’70s glory — with a dark blazer and medallion over gray turtleneck — seated behind a large, ornate desk in a room lined with bookshelves. The camera pulled in on him as credits appeared on-screen announcing that I’d found my way to some kind of documentary series or infomercial on talk shows that he was hosting.

I came upon this sight while seeming to browse television channels in a dream.