Introductions

Isn't everyone doing this these days? Is it like watching Friends (something that everyone else is doing), or is it like watching Battlestar Galactica (something that I should be doing)?

I love television, and I'm interested in narrative. I write historical and narrative non-fiction and I watch just a ridiculous amount of TV. I have many thoughts on narrative and an intense writer's block toward my own work. Oh, "my own work." I write this bittersweetly--I used to be a college professor with no time for my own work, and now I am happily working on a vanity project for a wealthy family and have no energy for my own work. But when I think of what I do, I still imagine that I am a writer, that I am writing a book, that at some point this book will be publishable, maybe even published, that I will be an author. I have three book projects in my head, and they ought to be written or abandoned, but the thought of abandoning them makes me almost as nauseated as the thought of writing them.

But writers write. And if I can't write what I should be writing, I can at least write what I'm always thinking about television and narrative.

"All the Cats of Greece" was printed on a t-shirt a friend brought me back from Japan. It features cartoons of many species of cats, including "siamese cat," "fat cat," "scaredy cat," and "kitty cat." It is fabulous.