Funny story for those not old enough to remember Jack Paar (the guy who invented the late night talk show). Once in 1960, when one of his jokes was cut from the monologue by NBC censors without his knowledge, Paar quit the show briefly in protest. In his emotional goodbye message, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making a living than this." After NBC execs begged him to return, and feeling that he had made his point, Paar came back to the show a few weeks later. On his return, the first words out of his mouth were, “As I was saying…(huge applause), there must be a better way of making a living. Well, I’ve looked…and there isn’t.” The studio audience roared.
In my case, censors aren’t to blame for my long silence, but a very busy web mistress. You don’t think I update this blog myself do you? I’m strictly an analog guy who’s still getting a handle on that whole email thing. Which brings me to another funny story. Because of this blog, which I don’t even update myself, I was invited to sit on a panel at The Symposium on Converged Journalism at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in Gainsville. Man, that’s a mouthful.
On the panel with me were Retha Hill and Elizabeth Spiers. The moderator was Mark Glaser. Our panel was Entertainment bloggers, or at least I think that’s what we were. The jist of the discussion was how websites are becoming more and more popular with big media corporations who are now putting more and more effort into having the most up to date websites. Being new to this whole blog thing, I found it pretty interesting. If you’d like to see what went on, here’s the streaming video, or whaterver you call it.
And here’s a picture of Mark the moderator, me and Elizabeth Spears.
Wooo! More writing!
Posted by: Elizabeth Bowles at May 21, 2004 10:38 PM