So The Colber(t) Repor(t) and The Daily Show are back and while Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel, and Conan are all nimble on their feet, and very funny and engaging, it's amazing how the success of all these shows really comes down to the writing. It's great to have them all back on the air and it does provide us all with some late night alternatives, but I hope NBC, ABC, and Viacom come to their senses......

I've managed to avoid watching NFL playoffs and college bowl games but I'm getting worn down, I'm tellin' ya. If I got the Fox Movie Channel I would watch Less Than Zero tonight at 7pm because I'm just about as strung out as Robert Downey Jr.was in that flick. I'm not begging for the writers to capitulate, I want them to win, I'm just begging the networks to send me some shite to write about.......

Los Angeles sure does have quite a few photography events. In fact, we have two this week alone. I already told you about the upcoming Photo L.A. shin-dig this weekend but there's also another event happening this weekend too as pointed out to be by tipster Jacob (thanks, btw) The event, called "Camera Works," is put on by the LA Chapter of the Advertising Photographers of America and is the 5th Annual Photo Exhibition......

Tonight - Tuesday - January 9th, 2006 Lakers @ Grizzlies (KCAL, 5:00 p.m.) Ducks @ Predators (PRIME, 5:00 p.m.) "Dateline NBC" (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) The one-track minds at NBC have dug up yet another polygamist murderer "Rome" (HBO, 8:00 p.m.) HBO is rerunning Season One in preparation for the season two debut on Sunday. Look for my upcoming DVD review on the Season-One set. "House" (FOX, 9:00 p.m.) House is back - and he......

Two killed, two injured when a Metro Blue Line train smashed into a car yesterday morning - CBS-2 Although once one of the best juvenile detention systems in the country, LA now has one of the worst, and it has only gotten scarier in the last ten years. The Board of Supervisors is partially to blame, the Times says. In the last year, county juvenile facilities operated by the Probation Department have erupted in......

LAist is starting to get sick and tired of lambasting the variety of award ceremonies (People's Choice, Golden Globes, SAG, Producer's Guild, Writer's Guild, DGA Awards, Academy Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Kids Choice Awards, etc) for being too numerous and of possessing so little entertainment value. Seriously, we are. We're tired of the humbuggery. And just about the point in time we were getting tired of that, a brand new category of award ceremonies......