The Writer's Life 10/30 - Editing

The Walking Dead is now in its fifth season on AMC. I’ve been catching up on My Nine, which airs back to back reruns on Wednesday at eight. Season one had only six episodes, two had 13, three & four 16. The station is into the second season. I understand the show's popularity. It is very well done. The characters are interesting. A message appears before each program, stating that the version is edited. Kudos to whomever has done the cutting. I don’t see or hear it, either in depictions of violence or language. Maybe the episodes were made with an eye toward syndication. I’ve never understood why Hollywood film-makers, who shoot so many takes, don’t shoot some that would be appropriate for prime time TV. I recently watched parts of an edited version of Fargo (1996). It was butchered and not worth airing. The print should be banned. Anyway, back to The Walking Dead. Last night it dabbled in existentialism. A female character interrupted a male who was about to pray, and questions ensued. She remarked that a lot of prayers must have been said since the plague had begun - to no avail. Some might think it’s silly or pretentious for a thriller to explore such thoughts. I don’t. There are books by great minds, hundreds of pages long, that don’t come any nearer to solving the God question.

I suffered a bit of embarrassment reading Seth Lipsky’s op-ed piece in today’s NY Post. I did not know that the Tea in Tea Party is an acronym for Taxed Enough Already. I assumed the leaders wished solely to echo the Boston Tea Party.

Activity was bustling as I set up the floating book shop. One block to my right, jackhammers were tearing up the street. A half block to my left, tree pruning was underway. Directly across Avenue Z, a huge truck pulled up next to a Con Ed van, and put a large suction hose into a manhole. Fortunately, all the crews were done within 45 minutes. The quiet was soothing. My thanks to the four kind folks who bought books, and the gentleman who donated two.

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