Covering An Abandoned Beat -

Last night at Midnight, we had another episode of Varg Veum. Afterwards, we watched another extra feature video by Chris Arth in which he interviewed the actor who plays the hero. While the actor does speak and understand English, his English is so heavily accented that it can be difficult to decipher. Among other things, he revealed that one of his favorite movies is Chinatown.

The episode, called The Woman in the Fridge, dealt with the persistence of personality traits combined with the mutability of identity - in this case: gender identity.

In our area, this International Mysteries series is broadcast on an obscure secondary Public Broadcasting TV channel: 17.2; and it comes on at Midnight, even though it is listed on their main schedule for 9pm. If you live in another geographical area of the country, you may have to do a bit of research to find it. The quality of their offerings ranges from good to excellent.

Many American newspapers are no longer providing comprehensive TV schedules. Or they may provide only a bare bones Primetime schedule. Even the schedule they do provide may be from the pre-digital era. Thus, this series may not even be noted.

This recent move repeats their earlier elimination of radio schedules. In general, there is very little or no coverage of what's happening on American radio. It may surprise you to learn that the UK Guardian newspaper has decided to cover this beat and has actually assigned a reporter to do that. Her column or blog appears in the American section of their Comment is free feature, which can be found on their website.

We had a mostly nasty and stormy day
today with a tornado watch, so I stayed offline.

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