We’re spending a quiet evening at home tonight, watching stuff on the Science Channel.  During a commercial break from a very interesting show about the ice hotel that gets built annually in Sweden, we saw a commercial for a new show coming to Animal Planet entitled “River Monsters”.  The gist?  It’s a guy who’s dubbed as “an extreme angler”, which I think roughly translates as “fishes with a harpoon gun nearby”, who goes after really big, nasty fish.  Sort of like Bassmasters, but with the chance of the host being ripped to shreds by some sort of ferocious water creature.

As time marches on, it seems that viewers require more & more shocking content in order to hold their interest.  What will be required in 5 or 10 years to draw in viewers?  How about ice hockey, but where the players have nitroglycerin strapped to their bodies?  How far are we away from The Running Man?

It’s been forever and a day since I posted anything to this site.  The other day, Atul complimented me on the site, though he didn’t realize it had been the better part of a year since I’d written anything here.

That was enough of a push to get me to do something about it.  Here it is.