HBO Bestows TV Upon the Oddball, TV-Less Writer Under Its Employ

Oh Jonathan Ames. I do heart him. His wacky antics are a perpetual source of amusement and inspiration, perhaps never more so than a couple of weeks ago when he searched for people on Twitter willing to let him come over to their place so he could watch Bored to Death, the show he writes for HBO, because he doesn’t own a TV. Now HBO, in an effort to spare Ames from having to tweet-grovel in the future for access to a television with premium cable, has bought him a TV, news Ames shared with the world this morning on Twitter, naturally. Read more »