The new issue of TV Guide (October 9th cover date) is the last digest-size issue. It contains an article about TV Guide collectors. The writer of that article interviewed me -- via cell phone while I was in a back yard in Ypsilanti, Michigan -- but I'm not mentioned in the actual article because she was more interested in focusing on cover collectors, even though it's edition collectors like me who are losing their raison d'etre with the format change. Probably not enough room in the 2-page article to try to explain local editions, although they do mention the "pre-national" version of TV Guide.

Now, this book about TV Guide, advertised in the back pages of this issue, happens to have been written by one of the people quoted in the printed version of the article. I have not written a book.

Yes, I'm going to cancel my subscription unless the first issue of the new format knocks my socks off, and by that I mean it would have to contain nude photos of Eva Longoria and the news that she's tired of dating basketball players and is looking for a closed-captioner-turned-video-logger instead.