Must watch: Ze Frank, strike day.  (Related, this overheard.)

The Emmy's were a complete disaster. Sure, the Sopranos won the big one, but the wrong James picked up best actor, and Sally Field? Are you serious? Good for 30 Rock ("dozens and dozens of viewers" was a nice touch) and for Stewart and Colbert having Carrell accept the award he didn't win. Basically, +1 to Tim Goodman's liveblogging commentary which we were reading in kind of this weird asynchronous way while we skimmed the awards on Tivo.

But. But but but. The award to current.tv was the most bizarre thing I've seen in a while. Twitter is extremely useful for bookmarking moments (and look, now that moment has a permanent URL), and last night was a perfectly bookmarkable moment:

Guy from NBC's heroes on a mac talking to myspace tom presenting an Emmy to al gore. Dissertation fodder.

At some point in time somewhere some doctoral candidate in media studies will dissect all of the multilayered richness of those 30-40 seconds of video. My head is still spinning.

Had a long conversation yesterday with someone about what happens to media when the only thing that's different between delivery devices is the size of the screen (small, medium, large), and the continuing power of story telling and narrative. You know, the normal "over coffee" bla bla for the pattern recognition generation.

But it reminded me that I needed to mark in the permanent record how much I'm enjoying FX's Damages. It's a great mix of over the top acting, a completely unbelievable story, delicious art direction and a fragmented narrative that is working forwards and backwards through the story at the same time. Every week I have to watch to find out what happened and what happens next. [1]

Plus, Ted Danson is brilliant. Who knew?

[1] I wonder if Tivo is collecting / sellling aggregate viewership data on not only what gets recorded and what gets watched, but how it gets watched. I can imagine a television engagement metric that measures the mean time between when a program is recorded and when it gets watched. Meaning even with the benefit of time shifting, the sooner someone sits down to make their way through a particular show, the more engaged they are.

Via (the consistently great) Very Short List comes this brilliant ad for Cadbury Dairy Milk. Wait for the payoff; it's worth it.

From Tim Goodman's coverage of Death March with Cocktails:

Alright, so I'm just going to confess this. I thought Tony Orlando was dead.  Orlando: "I was canceled with a 32 share." Great line. And probably true. I'm too stunned that he's alive and breathing to look it up.

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