I am in the midst of the ever-frustrating apartment search. Incidentally, if you have an apartment somewhere on the east side of Manhattan that you’re looking to rent, email me. Especially if it is huge and way underpriced and you’re willing to cut a discount to a sports and sandwich blogger of moderate repute.

I imagine a lot of people would say, “cozy,” which means “tiny,” or “bedroom fits a queen bed,” which means “bedroom is the size of a queen bed.” But I’m going to go with “no fee,” which means there absolutely is a fee and they’re just straight-up lying about it.

I’m pretty early in the process, but I’ve gone to check out two “no broker’s fee” apartments only to be told when I got there that there was a fee, and that the one I saw advertised on craigslist with no fee has since been taken. How does that even work? Do brokers really list a single apartment with no fee just to get you in the door to a bunch with fees? And who gets that apartment? Probably no one, since it never existed in the first place.

Craigslist is a tangled web of lies.

Yeah, for a while I basked in the attention but now I can’t leave my house without having to run from a crowd of screaming fans all like, “OMG TED BURG! SANDWICH!” It’s a lot like Hard Day’s Night, except with more sandwich. It’s overwhelming.

Seriously, though, we’re moving for a variety of reasons. For one, if I successfully pull off a move to a reasonable Manhattan location, I’ll cut about two hours per day off my commute. That’s so much time! Think of how much more TV I’ll get to watch!

The other big things I’m looking forward to about Manhattan are streetlights and sidewalks. I like to walk places, and just walking for the sake of walking. Neither is really possible or enjoyable where I am now. There are tons of beautiful parks and reserves for walking, but you have to set aside some daytime and take a car to get there, which I think defeats the purpose.

No I am not. But this is now my fourth time looking for a place to rent since I left my parents’ house in 2005. Every time I saw a bunch of awful places that seemed unreasonably expensive, then, eventually, one that was just way better than the others in every way.

I guess this is sort of the same phenomenon as your keys always being in the last place you look for them: Once you find a good place, you stop looking, so the only places you have to compare it to are all the terrible ones you’ve already seen. But I’ve never had a situation where I was weighing the benefits and costs of one place versus another. Every time it has seemed the place I settled on was the biggest, most reasonably priced and closest to where I wanted to be. So here’s hoping that happens again.

On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Hurwitz tossed a few more crumbs to the “Arrested Development” faithful at a New Yorker Festival event that reunited him with the show’s ensemble cast, telling the audience that a movie was still in the works, along with a new set of television episodes that would serve as a prelude to the film….

Mr. Hurwitz continued: “We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing. Just creatively, I have been working on the screenplay for a long time and found that as time went by, there was so much more to the story. In fact, where everyone’s been for five years became a big part of the story. So in working on the screenplay, I found even if I just gave five minutes per character to that back story, we were halfway through the movie before the characters got together.”

So, Mr. Hurwitz said, “We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie.” After a wave of excited applause died down, he continued, “We’re basically hoping to do nine or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.”

– Dave Itzkoff, N.Y. Times.

Man. I try not to let myself get too excited every time news comes out about a possible Arrested Development reunion for a couple of reasons: 1) There has been lots of talk but thus far precious little real action and 2) I’m a tad concerned that if the movie and new shows don’t live up to the first three seasons, they’ll color my impressions of the series as a whole.

But all that said, this is pretty amazing news. I especially like the idea of it returning as a short-run show created with an end-date in mind, so all the story arcs can be carefully scripted from the outset.

“The show has definitely changed,” said Friedman. “But it’s very much changed along with the times.” In other words, that movement seen above from “World Travel” to “My Son, The Doctor” is not willed into existence. Rather, it’s a growing with culture. Jeopardy! changed, and changed productively (compare its success to other long-running and flailing stalwarts like the nightly news and soap operas), because TV changed. HBO, DVDs, and the web happened, and in the process, we’ve moved from a norm, sometimes called Least Objectionable Programming, to one in which viewers are trusted with the possibilities of the medium as showrunners explore complexity and nuance.

The continuing evolution of Jeopardy! lets us see this shift happening in real time, providing a constant basis of comparison that isn’t there if we just look at, say, Full House beside The Sopranos. From a straightforward trivia contest predicated on a set of largely academic knowledge, the show has become a repository for jokes, references (both to pop culture and to itself), and language games. The questions have become dense tangles of allusions that rely on contestants’ ability to make connections and inventively parse language. Over the years, the show has been able to take advantage of the new complexity audiences were willing to accept, and the writers have seized the opportunity to turn this trivia show into something that intuitively probes the ways in which we understand the world.

– Mike Barthel, GQ.

This is an awesome article about Jeopardy!, focusing on the show’s oft-overlooked but excellent writers.