Gonna be a Good Year.

Well, as 2006 begins and I feel vaguely guilty (alright, a LOT guilty) about my dearth of postings (as if anyone reads my ranting anyway), it's clear that this year will be interesting and wonderful - and I'm sure it will be both in ways that I don't even yet know about.

For starters one good thing already happened this morning. I'm a subscriber and fairly avid reader of Mark Cuban's "Blog Maverick," and his writing has at times yielded some really fascinating and prescient forward-thinking posts (albeit, some of it with a decided HDNET bias.. but hey, he's not a reporter, and doesn't have to *claim* to be unbiased!).

At any rate, Mark is also one of the principals of an outfit shaking up and shaping up the future of the entertainment biz with his company called 2929 Entertainment. So, this morning, New Years morning, at 10:40am, I email Mark via his blog to see if he could steer me towards the right person to speak to at HDNET and 2929 to send over a screener of "Family" for distribution consideration. He writes back to me literally within 15 minutes. On New Year's Day. Along with the name of the person to send it to.

That's a beautiful thing.