With gwactuary's blessing, I've taken over editorship of Phyllis, Cloris Leachman's short-lived mid-70s sitcom. This marks two editorial firsts for me. It's the first time I've edited two spin-offs from the same show, as this was the second (and by far least successful) of the three spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Coincidentally, it lists alphabetically in my list of editorships next to the other, Rhoda (with Lou Grant being the odd one out). While Rhoda had been Mary Richards' best friend who moved to New York, Phyllis was her landlady who moved to San Francisco to start anew following her husband's death, taking up work in a photography studio. Speaking of deaths, that's my other editorial first. While I had at least six shows already where main cast members died during the show's run (including two suicides) [bonus points for knowing them or ones I forgot, in 1st comment], this is the first where a main cast member was murdered. Barbara Colby, who played the owner of the studio, was shot and killed before the show ever aired after filming but three episodes. Her episodes still aired, and Liz Torres replaced her. The murder is still unsolved.

Meanwhile, I knocked off GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Everything about it is better than The Lost and the Damned. It just feels more like GTA, and the challenge is greater. The sheer numbers they throw at you can be quite overwhelming, but it's good for a 100s of hours multiplayer veteran since after that much dealing with the unpredictability of human opponents, I feared there might be little challenge against AI. Like the previous DLC, I'm not a fan of the new deathmatches. The characters move a bit differently and everyone spawns in much smaller areas (ofter inside, a series first) making to tougher to implement a strategy. In the end, I feel it just compromises your skill in the main game's multiplayer deathmatches. The addition of boosting to the online races, however, is quite welcome. The finale was sufficiently epic to leave me wanting more (or better yet, a brand new GTA).

I also have to give a shout out to my buddy Det Ansinn, who retained his borough council seat in the next town over. He couldn't lose; the Republicans didn't bother running anyone against him and he was cross-filed to be on their ballot, too. He games under borocouncilman over both PSN and XBox Live. He and his company also developed the free iNXES app for iPhone and other devices that lets you see who's on XBox Live among your friends without needing to be on your console. He's also know for pwning the phone.

That's all for today. Thanks for reading, everybody!