Confession time: despite watching a freakish amount of Nick at Nite during my childhood, I’ve never seen the “Twilight Zone” (for what it’s worth, I think I’ve seen every episode of the “Andy Griffith Show”, “Leave it to Beaver” and “F-Troop” in existence). The “Twilight Zone” isn’t the kind of thing I’m usually into, but listening to the interview, I kind of want to watch it. It’s science fiction and morality tales rolled up into one.
In honor of the show’s 50th birthday, Brooke geeks out with Larry Kassan, founder of the Rod Serling Video Festival. I love it when Brooke pulls out her total inner nerd. You get the sense that one of the reasons that Bob can’t get through to her is that she’s always in some other dude’s basement, watching Star Trek and playing D&D.
Also this week, there’s a story for those of us who feel like we’re shouting into vacuums with our blogs and Web sites. It’s really interesting and makes a lot of good points about the internet and democracy. There’s also a story about the Distracted Driving Summit. Which, did we really need to have a summit about that? Y’all know that texting while driving is bad, right?
All in all, it was a pretty tame week on OTM. No crazy theme music, no longing sighs, no flirty interviews or journalistic smackdowns. Sometimes, calm is good.
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