Happy Birthday to Me

It's rude to forget a birthday, but I believe Emily Post says it's forgivable when the birthday is your own. Tuned In came into the world on Sept. 13, 2005, during that heady period of the mid-'00s when we all still believed that Martha Stewart was a celebrity. Back then, the blog was supposed to be temporary, intended to review the first few weeks of the new fall season. But fall stretched into a cruel winter, which Tuned In made crueler still by continuing to exist. Its mission changed too, as Tuned In commented on current TV news, considered new media technology, filled you in my home electronics purchases and, of course, forced the resignations of Dan Rather and Senate majority leader Trent Lott. (OK, those were different blogs, but nobody checks anything on the Internet, right?)

Next week, the fall TV premiere season starts in earnest, and you can look for Tuned In to go old-school again, with more (but please God for all our sakes, shorter) reviews and impressions of the new schedule. Please stay with us as Tuned In, like all one-year-olds, staggers around unsteadily, babbles incoherently, and occasionally leaves slobber on the living room furniture. Isn't it cute?