- A list of words introduced to Noah Webster’s Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. Opossum! And skunk! And porcine!
- The Bold Type Scary issue is out.
- Austin Kleon on an Alison Bechdel appearance.
- Cynthia Leitich Smith talks with writer/editor Deborah Noyes.
- Maud Newton hosts a fascinating debate between Phil Campbell and Mike Daisey about truth and storytelling, jumping off Daisey’s new show dealing with J.T. Leroy and James Frey.
- A teen-made trailer for John Green’s Looking for Alaska.
- More Stephen King blitz in the NYT, which might be annoying if I didn’t find him so damn likable. And I’m very interested to read this one. I’m officially putting it on the scary reads for October list, which means I’ll pick it up the day it comes out and read read read.
- Veronica Mars numbers look okay, but not stellar. Someone on TWoP calculated that they held about 60 percent. So, all y’all, watch next week. No Standoff-ing!
- Editor Ellen Datlow gets profiled in the Columbus Dispatch.
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Veronica Mars– looked for it last night. Channel and time, please?
Hey Earl: We’re on Dish Network and pay for a CW affiliate out of New York. Just go to the CW Network web site (they merged UPN and WB) and see if there’s a local affiliate listed.
But I don’t get it – it only counts if you’re a neilson family, yes?
Well, technically, yes. But there has to be some other way that networks unofficially monitor this stuff — if only by buzz and that sort of thing. Plus, I always figure that if more people without boxes are watching, it might increase the numbers among those being tracked. (And actually, someone over at TWoP said their box was on the way; I wonder how much impact one Neilsen box has, sort of like Amazon numbers…)
Someone like Robert Altman should make a movie where a network bribes all the Neilsen families, so a show is highest rated, but no one else is watching it. I wonder if that’s remotely possible.
By now they’re probably removing words from the dictionary….