"24"

Many of you have noted that this blog went "dark" for a few months. A full explanation as to the causes of this inactivity will be forthcoming, as soon as the person whose actions were mainly responsible for this condition obtaining, steels himself to make a full breast of it. Suffice it to say at this time, financial considerations were at issue with an apparent embezzlement by a company retained to manufacture beer cozys, combined with a too rapid expansion of the motion picture wing of ISP. Also something called an "injunction" was involved, the details of which were never fully fleshed out to me.

For those of you for whom this blog is your only source of what happens on the show, "24", my most abject apologies. In the season just concluded, Jack Bauer managed to keep the Chinese and the Russians from getting into it, and also wiped out a terrorist gang that had blown up part of Los Angeles with a nuclear device. For reasons too lengthy to recount, Jack had to let his father get blown up. The viewer never actually saw the father get blown up, so they may be leaving themselves a little "wiggle" room. The father was played by the same actor who played the part of "Stretch" Cunningham on "All In The Family". I am not aware of any other roles he may have had in the interim.

Before Jack concluded his mission, he got into a bit of a sticky wicket, where the head of CTU was telling him to do one thing and Jack just knew it was a bad decision, so decided to act of his own volition. When the head of CTU got word of Jack's unilateral action, he called the President and told him, "Jack Bauer's gone rogue."

Well, I gotta tell ya, when I heard those words, I couldn't even feel myself breathing . . . my blood ran absolutely cold.

Now, regarding "24 Weekend", which is supposed to be shown on Channel 57 on the UHF every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. . . . real problems have developed there . . . I can't provide you a current update . . . the station also carries the Phillies' games, and what with games running long due to rain delays and poor pitching, "24" has been "bumped" to 1:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Why they don't "bump" "CSI", a perfectly awful show, is beyond me.