You know what? I kinda feel like blogging some more.I got a big piece of writing done (more or less) and feel otherwise refreshed. So for the next couple of months – before preparations for “Treme” get too thick – I intend to pump some life back into this site.
Get ready to turn up the volume...
Bring it, David!
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WB. Looking forward to it!
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ReplyDeleteGood to have more posts from you!!! :D woo hoo!
Who do we thank for this? Black Jesus or White Jesus?
ReplyDeleteWelcome back-- as if you could have stayed away forever... Looking forward to what's been going on in your head...
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I knew you couldn't give it up! Glad to have you back.
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Satan the Tempter! Ha! Good one. Welcome back.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all for the good vibe.
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ReplyDeleteAh ha! The Brotha has stepped out of the darkness and back into the light! He's Back!
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YES!
ReplyDeleteis anyone more excited than me?
ReplyDeleteoh, damn, just when i had finally trained myself to stop checking your page.
ReplyDeletevery happy to reverse that pattern!
So does this mean that an eighty-something jazz artist is going to have to die every day now?
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Hey UBM,
ReplyDeleteI was just checking out your site, and I'm looking forward to reading more.
I have a question for you, since are in the business and have written for some of my favorite shows "The Wire" and "E.R.".
How do shows like "Grey's Anatomy" survive? I find it so technically unbelievable that it's hard to watch? Do producers even listen to technical advisers? E.R. (and even Scrubs) was believable (before during and after medical school) Chicago Hope, not as much. The Wire had me believing...
Anyway good luck on your new show, I look forward to watching! (And again, nice beatdown the other night).
^ Good Doctor, welcome to the House of Love.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of storytelling, it's an open question as to how much real-world technical authenticity is necessary to make a satisfying show about doctors (or cops or lawyers).
"St. Elsewhere" is one of my all-time favorite dramas. And one of the top writer-producers on that show was known to have blank spaces in his script that said "Insert medical bullshit here."
In other words, he was more concerned with the more generic emotional content of the story.
"ER," on the other hand, placed a supremely high value on technical authenticity. Writers Neal Baer, Lance Gentile and Joe Sachs are medical doctors. And there were medical consultants available to writers... and also on set, to show the actors how to accurately mimic procedures.
Of course, that worked too.
"Hill Street Blues" is my all-time favorite drama, and the bosses of that show knew it wasn't an accurate representation of police work, technically. Again, they were focused on universal human emotions.
"NYPD Blue" was a leap forward in terms of procedural authenticity... but even that show took a lot of liberties for the sake of simplicity of storytelling.
I happen to prefer the extra energy provided by attention to real-world authenticity... but I realize it's no strictly necessary in order to entertain the peoples.
Thank you for the welcome.
ReplyDeleteShows like "Scrubs" are very well received in the hospital, because it gets many of the relationships correct despite being a comedy.
I'll tell you what, if you ever have the chance to work on another hospital drama, invite a group of trauma doctors, ICU and ER nurses over for drinks and turn on a tape recorder, oh the stories they'll tell...
Grey's is like Ivory.
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Medical details only matter to the extent they serve the plot. It's a contract Ms. Rhimes made w/ her viewers from day one. She consistently honors the contract, they keep coming back.
Strict technical accuracy in the medicine would actually hurt the show by diminishing the opportunities for juicy emotional stuff. People who really care about medicine can get all they want on the Discover channel and other documentary type programming.
@ Dave
You can't quit us!
speaking of medical shows, i'm enjoying nurse jackie tho i can't say how much might be technically inaccurate.
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ReplyDeleteNow where's Fisher? lol
That's good news - both that you're blogging again, and that you got some major writing done.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your observations of my city, your links to good music and to interesting dialogues going out there in the world.
^ I'm looking forward to returning to your city, Beth.
ReplyDeleteHey Y'all,
ReplyDeleteI'm new to David's spot. Just want say hello before hopping in.
@odocoileus,
Yeah, I feel you on not being too technical, and I can understand that because the folks who liked ER are probably not her target audience. But Shonda Rimes got so much wrong, that it was actually distracting (even my wife whose only connection to medicine is me, said the same thing).
But I think I used the wrong word, because technical might imply I was talking about the surgical procedures.
I was actually talking more about the relationships among residents, (between interns and senior residents) and between residents and staff (nurses, surgeons etc.).
Also the characters were too emotional, any resident that emotional and catty IN the O.R., or yelled at an attending surgeon would be thrown out. Period. Histrioncis are for OB/Gyn ;).
Surgery is very hierarchical (think Marine fighter pilots with scalpels) but, I don't think that was ever really addressed on the show.
But for a soap opera in my opinion--and I'm biased, Rimes chose the wrong specialty. Internal Medicine would have been better (they're more fashionable and have more time to play) and more believable, to me at least.
About Nurse Jackie...I checked out the one preview online, and I thought she got the nurse attitude down pretty good, better, I think, than Jada Pinkett's character.
Anyway, that's my two-cents.
Well, this makes up for several weeks of crappy/rainy NYC weather!
ReplyDelete^ How you been, girl?
ReplyDelete^been missing your musings.
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I hope you're taking care of yourself, UBM.
So I guess David's blogging career is going to mimic that of a boxer, retiring and unretiring like seventeen times over the course of a few years.
ReplyDelete^ Knocking motherfuckers out each time.
ReplyDeletewelcome back, Brother. missed you.
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