Cut to the Crack

“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

The line is Leonard Cohen’s. It came to mind yesterday when I noticed that for her new installation in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London, the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has produced a lengthy and widening crack in the Tate’s concrete floor.

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TV 101: They're Not TV Numbers. They're HBO Numbers.

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Afraid I’m not going to get around to a Tell Me You Love Me Watch this week–knee-deep in a deadline for TIME’s “magazine,” which is kind of like a large blog with staples in it. I’ll try to catch up next week. In the meantime, here’s the next-best thing: a post about ratings statistics!

Last week I (and a few …

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Rate It! What's Your Fall Season List?

OK, we’re into the third week of the fall season. It’s decision time. It’s TiVo-disk-space, evening-time allocation time. What new shows this fall are you actually still watching? Here’s my list:

1. Pushing Daisies.* This gets an asterisk, as it has the advantage of having aired only its pilot.

2. Tell Me You Love Me. Not sure if this …

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The Morning After: Military Time

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Do any Tuned Inlanders watch NCIS or The Unit? Have we ever discussed NCIS or The Unit? Should I be watching NCIS or The Unit? (I was briefly interested in the latter, mostly for employing Scott Foley, but lost interest upon seeing there was so little staccato swearing for a David Mamet show.)

Thoughts on that or any …