Joe D’Ambrose

The Holidays, New York City, and the Future of Television

This was an especially exciting holiday season. My sister has been engaged: Congratulations to her and Phil. I have set them up with a website for them to post updates from their home in Baltimore. Also check out my father’s new website at VideoVisions.com.I spent December 27th in New York City with the family. It wasn’t my first time in the city, but for the first time it really became clear to me: I would never want to live in New York City. Too much commerce, everywhere. Megapixels, gigabytes, traffic lights, light bulbs, advertisements, logos, taxis, beeping, people, branding, SD-cards, MicroSD cards, cell phones, business to business transactions, pretzels… it’s all too much. I seek simplicity and New York City is way too fast. But we did catch a broadway play, The Producers, which was hilarious.

On another note, last week I tuned into NBC late at night and saw Tom Green, one of my all time favorite entertainers, happened to be a guest on Carson Daly’s late show. On the show, they talked about Tom Green’s new online TV channel at TomGreen.com. I watched the episode with guest Steve-O and it was hilarious. It was really some of the best TV I’ve seen in a while. Totally uncensored. Tom set up a TV studio in his own living room in Los Angeles! I really believe this is the future of talk shows. Online.