It’s that week again. When I arrived in the USA in 2005 the upfronts seemed like an anachronism; I rashly described them as a conspiracy of the damned based on the decline in TV audiences and the inverse increase in the quality of the associated presentations and parties.
In a somewhat counter cyclical way I now [...]
May 14, 2008
The upfront – where the men are men and the shrimp are terrified
May 14, 2008
Subway series – New York’s finest
Friday night. Yankee Stadium. The last year of it’s life. Johan Santana (the Mets new and highly compensated ace) on the mound. What could be better?
The joy of local match-ups bewteen old rivals (or derby games as us Brits call them) is that they utterly transcend the almost perfect current mediocrity of the participants. The Yanks [...]
