At The Apiary, Margot Leitman, one of the bartenders at the UCB Theatre tells all (or most). It’s several short anecdotes, some funny, some touching, and there are actually four parts to date — links to the first three are at the end of the post. An excerpt:

The night the Red Sox won the World Series I was working. I went to the back to restock and Matt Walsh was sitting back there alone watching the game on a tiny TV with barely any reception, with a long antennae that actually had tin foil attached to it. He said, “Margot, stop working for a second, you gotta see this.” I stopped and sat with Walsh backstage staring at that tiny black and white TV as the curse of the Red Sox was finally being lifted. It was so surreal. I know Walsh probably has a nice big screen TV back home in LA, but he’ll always be watching the proverbial “game” on that rickety TV backstage at UCB with old friends like me.

Then Jeff Jarvis, aka BuzzMachine, aka PrezVid, explains the only real reason why I don’t watch television. It’s not because I’m a snob, it’s not because nothing good is on — there are funny things happening on TV, though it may feel harder to find them. It’s for this reason:

I realized recently that my kids simply do not surf TV channels; they watch what they want to watch and they find out what they want to watch from friends and favorite sources. And they watch on their own schedule. Now TV Week reports that they are hardly alone

Then he links to and excerpts this TV Week story.

And I don’t think I got to this last week, but this is a very funny collection of notes called The Astoria Notes from an angry neighbor. Here’s the set-up:

One night, I came home to find the first in a series of notes slipped under my door. Small writing filled both sides of a sheet of loose leaf paper. I didn’t know what to make of it. The note began, “Dear Neighbor. When you arrive late every night, you are probably concentrating on your chores and don’t realize that this building, this street, the traffic, the people are all very still, very quiet.” The care and craftsmanship that went into writing this note was beyond anything I’d ever heard of from an angry neighbor. I continued reading.

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