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You Can Be TV

It's just going to be hard to explain to my grandkids what it means when I say, "I wrote things, in the olden days, for other people, not me, and it made sense."

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Patrick Somerville
Sep 05, 2024
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I bow to the impossible chances of being born, but I bow more to the more impossible chances of being born, growing up in this century, and liking your job. The television industry isn’t exactly collapsing, but of course that’s what I’d say; I don’t want it to, but no one’s in control. The wreckage of derelict space-stations falling onto farms in Kansas…

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