Friday, February 22:

8:00 - 8:30PM

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4734. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream.

8:30 - 9:00PM

NOW on PBS #408. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now, you guys are awesome!

9:00 - 10:00PM

Bill Moyers Journal #1146. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,146th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).

10:00PM - 11:00PM

In Search of Shakespeare – "The Duty of Poets". I think the duty of poets to be eliminated from the Republic. I'd eliminate them from my Republic. Aristotle eliminated them from his Republic. I doubt Shakespeare would eliminate them from his Republic though. After all, he was a poet.

 
Saturday, February 23:

9:00 – 10:00PM

Austin City Limits – "Tribute to Bluesman Jimmy Reed". Jimmie Vaughan and company pay tribute to Jimmy Reed, who was a composer of blues songs. Maybe it'll even have Jimmie Someone too, and Jimmy Even. That way it'll cover its Jimmy base.

I think that the above is a pretty accurate statement. If Barbara Broccoli or Michael G. Wilson shot me an e-mail explaining why I wasn't going to get a walk-on role in Quantum of Solace I could accept it far better. Really I could. Think about it, that would mean that Michael G. Wilson or Barbara Broccoli had heard of me. That would be awesome.