The Onion’s AV Club has a funny interview with Colorado Springs’ own Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira. Check it out.

I mentioned last week that we had plans in the works to rectify what a worthless, non-TV blogging bum I’ve become. Well, this is it. We’re hiring a freelance TV/radio writer. It could be you, assuming you watch a lot of TV, listen to the radio and have a well broken-in La-Z-Boy.

Here’s the ad:
“The Gazette is looking for a freelance writer and blogger who’s interested in covering local TV and radio. Some writing experience is required. Please send clips to warren.epstein@gazette.com.”

Man, this Letterman thing is just fascinating. I don’t much care for the tawdry tabloid aspect of it - but how many Letterman fans agree with me on that point will determine how this imbroglio affects the late night-TV landscape.

CBS executives have to be banging their heads against a wall and wishing Letterman’s extorter would have come to them with his demands: They’d certainly have paid. Their guy was handily beating up on Conan, winning the bookings war and poised for a triumphant finale to his career. But now? Who knows?

Maybe viewers don’t care about Dave’s personal life. Despite the drama, he’s not Jon Gosselin. Maybe some do.

Whatever. If the Late Show shows any weakness, NBC will be chomping at the bit to take advantage of it. I think that favors Leno rather than Conan. He’s the proven commodity. How that plays out, however, I can’t say.

Oh, and well I was off changing diapers, I see KXRM began a 6:30 p.m. newscast. I’d always wondered why they didn’t do an early newscast from the get-go.

Anyhoo: 6:30. Discuss.

A commenter asks: “are you really a BLOG when you posts something every 2-3 weeks? BLOG insinuates daily or at least WEEKLY updates. Otherwise you are simply posers trying to cash in on the stupidity of the facebook nation.”

Now, in my defense, I’ve been out the last couple of weeks with a newborn baby (he’s cute, he cries a lot, he poops a lot, he apparently requires no sleep to perform those primary functions).

But obviously, in recent months the TV blog has become a poor stepchild of the other Gazette blogs I contribute to (Out There and Business). I don’t exactly have an announcement yet, but I will say we’re taking steps to rectify the situation.

More to come…