Brightornication?

I’ve been watching Californication, and I adore it. It has more spunk than any show I’ve seen in a long time, and dialogue to rival Whedon. Mostly.

Being a writer blows – it’s like having homework for the rest of your life.

Nice words… not that I agree, but hey, it’s a show about a writer. They have to pull that stuff out as surely as they have to have the entire cast tapping relentlessly into MacBooks (writers or not). What I do like, though, is Hank Moody’s response to what is pissing him off at the moment:

Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it’s really given us is Howard Dean’s aborted candidacy and twenty-four hour a day access to kiddie porn. People… they don’t write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text; no punctuation, no grammar. LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.

He’s as angry as me!

The show fits in well with my William Boyd kick, and mainstream writing period. Excellent.