Consortium of Seven: Year 4

        Another of those weeks that simultaneously feels unnaturally long - was the Georgia runoff election really just this past Tuesday? - yet so quick, as in I can't say where most of the time went. I think I spend too much time these days in a state where I'm tired, want a nap, but there's always a few more things to be done.       Occasionally while looking up details on a movie or tv episode, I'll happen to note the release or broadcast date - what a wonderful age we live in for indulging nerdy/geeky impulses!       Recently, while thinking about seasonal television, most specifically about holiday episodes of shows, I fairly quickly thought about the ones that Dan Harmon's show, Community , did during its six- season run. Likely my favorite Christmas-y episode from that series was season two's " Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas ." (Season 2, episode 11.)     While checking for some details...

        A firm, full seven days into October already! The greatest, truest horror is the speed of it all, as  we try to recover and rejuvenate from the press of obligations, only to find that the rest period's over and it's time to go give some more. At least the local weather's finally cleared - it was all clouds, rain and gloom hereabouts the first five days of the month! The first Thursday of the month was the first direct sunshine we'd seen since late September.       Oh! Not something that's imminent, but definitely something I'm looking forward to and had to note: Official word came through recently that Peacock has greenlit the the long-awaited movie for the NBC (and then Sony) comedy series Community . It's been an in-joke for fans of the series that it would have "six seasons and a movie" - a line from Danny Pudi's obsessive-compulsive character Abed Nadir, who at the time was talking about a doomed NBC superhero d...