May Sweeps
Most of you know that the May Sweeps period begins on television tonight, helping to establish local advertising rates for the coming year. But did you know that it's Sweeps time in the blogosphere as well. It's true. We're trying to budget for next Fall just like our cousins in the cathode-ray tube. That's why today the CM Archives is introducing a scandalous new gay story arc. It's probably a one-time shot, but it's called "A Country Boy Finds His Prince."You've got to hand it to the Cupids at the Carlyle Group Dating Service. It I think it's true love.
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The witch-hunt for steroids continues on Capitol Hill this week. Somehow, in a time when baseball players wear red-tinted contact lenses to better see the seams on the ball, when the FDA approves the use of Human Growth Hormone for short, healthy children, and the Chairman of the Congressional Committee investigating steroid use pushes Laser Eye Surgery back at his home in Virginia, the phrase performance enhancement has become synonymous with cheating. I'll let the salient Bill Saletan finish the thought.
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The Des Moines Register still has the results posted for the Iowans in the Boston Marathon. Check out the big man on top.
The 96th running of the Drake Relays is underway in Des Moines. I think it would be funny if radio and television reporters at the scene pretended to be shot when starting guns go off during their reports.
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Finally tonight, this guy is dead. I never knew his name until now, and I have only vague memories of "Lou Grant," but this gentleman has always embodied warm and safe television for me. He was one of the great, comforting voices of our time. I'm going to have some toast tonight with Smuckers jam spread atop it. I think it would be a nice gesture if you did the same.
posted by CM @ 9:23 PM
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