OK, I’m not fanatical about checking the stats of who visits my blog. (Well, not as much as I once was…) This morning, however, in a fit of procrastination, I did take a look. Normally, you can’t tell much about the people who come to your site, beyond an IP address and what part of the country or world they’re visiting from. But today, one of the referrals to my site was from someone’s e-mail account. And, for whatever reason, I was able to see a person’s name. Seeing the opportunity to procrastinate further, I googled the person. He is the assistant to the executive producer of one of the shows I recently reviewed!

I checked what this person did while on my site, and indeed he went to the review for his show.  You mean, people READ this stuff I put on my site?  Let alone the ACTUAL PEOPLE who make the stuff I’m writing about?!?

It made me think through what I’d said about different shows.  I normally try to be thoughtful, but there have been some when I’ve spent less time than others, and those tend to be the ones where I’ll stray into hyperbole about how bad a show is.  Fortunately, while I didn’t recommend this particular show, I said some decent things about it, and I would stand by the negatives I pointed out.  But I know what it’s like when you work really hard and people don’t love the result.

So I guess I want to say to TV writers and producers out there that I really appreciate all of your hard work.  Except for the Viva Laughlin people.  You guys owe me an apology.

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