When Bob Crane, the star of TV's Hogan's Heroes, was found

So, how do I do this?  On the one hand, I want to share something about a certain network.  This certain network ordered a pilot recently based on the caveman character in the Geico insurance ads.  Have you seen them?  Kind of funny.  The idea is that if you're a caveman somehow living in today's world -- I don't mean like a caveman, I mean an actual caveman, with eyebrow ridges and stringy  hair and like that -- anyway, the point of the commercial is that if you were such a caveman, making your way in the modern world, you'd have to deal with a lot of prejudice.  People thinking you're stupid or oafish or dazzled by fire or whatever...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.  Said Samuel Johnson, at some point, to someone.  Good advice...

Now that I'm officially not making a pilot, and am  deep into my seasonal I'm-quitting-this-idiotic-business muttering and stomping around, I need to get something off of my chest....

This year, I had two pilot scripts in contention for the fall 2007 season.  Both of them are now, in the words of the networks that paid for them, technically dead.  Technically dead.  Not dead.  Not alive, certainly.  But dead, technically...

A few years ago, we shot a pilot for a network that didn't want it.

I have a friend, actually, I do, this part is true, who currently has a show on the air, and in a recent episode, they had a joke that was a bit too risqué, a bit too explicit for network television. Now what happens in this case is, usually, the joke appears in the table draft, which the actors read at the table reading, which is attended by about sixty thousand people from the network and the studio, all of whom gather in little clumps afterwards to think things over and decide exactly which parts of the script were the funniest, freshest, and most lively, and then ask for these specific parts to be removed...

For the past week I've been reading an excellent book called Getting Things Done by a very interesting guy named David Allen. The book's title sort of gives it all away: it's a book about, well, Getting Things Done, and it's a pretty thorough, compelling system for organizing your life and work for maximum productivity...

For the next, oh, ten seconds, I'm going to be lying to you... The script?  It's going really well.  It's basically done, we're just