october 14 tmu

I have been rewatching Community lately. For the most part, the show still hits. If I ever get around to writing that book of essays about television I must remember to write one about the insane series of storylines that closed Season 3 and gave way to the gas leak season (which still had its moments). Related: I am still slowly making my way through Jessica Helfand's Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture which I first mentioned last month. It's a bit of a slog, but not because it's bad. Rather, because it's good. Every time I read a paragraph, I start relating an idea therein to the larger ideas I want to write about. When you think about it, any mass medium that came of age after the advent and proliferation of the television —— as an object and a product —— is an extension of the idea that television establisheda nd enabled: media made at scale for mass audiences consumed privately, by individuals, at home. Third places, in this reading, are not growing…