Scripting News: Saturday, December 16, 2023
Saturday, December 16, 2023 Howard Weaver , who was a giant both in journalism and blogging , has died . A bunch of my pieces really pissed him off, like this one . You didn't have to guess where you stood with him. And he listened when you told him he was all fucked up and full of it and didn't understand the first thing about what you said. He was from Alaska and I am from the east and west coasts. We were friends. I'lll miss his caustic and broad dismissals. I knew then and now that his heart was in it, and it is a good heart. ❤️ # I listened to a podcast interview with Norman Lear . He's a great talker and story-teller and philosopher, and a great human being. I had never heard him interviewed before, or read anything written by him, but I watched all his TV shows in the 70s. The people in them were people from my neighborhood, but funnier. Why should it be surprising that the stories this man told in real life were the same ones he told in his s...