OneCharmingBastard

Can I just say... In first grade, i was home sick from school for almost two whole weeks in January with Mumps (one week of parotitis on each side). I often joke that it was during that time that the Daytime TV demon seduced me and devoured my cultural soul. A couple of years later my obsession with Nielsen ratings began and as the years rolled by I knew that someday, somehow, I would get to see ALL the ratings, someday, eventually. Have spent three decades plus not in search of the holy grail, just the whole story of audience erosion when networks interfere too much,laid out in cold hard data, I am over the motherfreaking 🌙 at these 70s numbers! 1st grade me was not wrong - da Storm still had some life in it! - and the unfolding saga of the decline and freefall of Dark Shadows in 1970 - this is like getting the autopsy. Or the Elephant Man's bones Access to great works of the world is fine, but truly, this is what I always dreamed that the Internet could be. Bless you Jason. You've brought my chi.