What Time Is It? Damn, it was an amazing autumn New England morning up here yesterday. About 40 degrees, sunny, leaves lit up yellow and red and a light breeze blowing them down.

Even James Lipton Would Applaud: I don’t like a lot of acquisitions in today’s media world, but I do think NBC wrapping Bravo is a brilliant move. Here’s why.

Vintage Wine Or Sour Grapes? There was a party last week sponsored in part by MediaBistro that celebrated a lot of the magazines that have gone to magazine limbo after the internet bust and ensuing money crunch. I worked for one of those internet business books back in the day.

Other People’s Riffs: Don’t Mess With Cartoon Network: According to Drudge, before President Bush boards Air Force One, his staff makes sure that the plane's TVs are tuned to nearly anything other than cable news. Otherwise, Bush might spot CNN or FOX News and demand, as he has in the past,"Who turned that on?!" Understatement Of The Week: Fox Sports chairman David Hill said baseball's labor strife this year was partly responsible for the decrease in ratings: "Once again, baseball managed to turn off its loyal fans.

Reality Is For People Who Can’t Face Plastic Surgery: I don’t like reality TV. I think it’s boring as hell.

Hitting Singles: I usually don’t trust high falutin’ speeches from guys who have three names. But I must admit I like what Newspaper Association of America CEO William Dean Singleton had to say over the weekend.

Doing The Right Thing: For magazines, this has been a year of nasty challenges met by heady solutions. Total circulation is down.

Accentuate The Positive: Media consolidation is an issue made for cranking out copy. I read about it everywhere over the past few days as a new flame hits the ABC/CNN news merger.

Other People's Riffs: Now The Trick Is, After You Go Home, Are You Still Coming Back?: "We are not going to do big holiday parties and big lunches," Time, Inc. president Ann Moore said recently.

Sneakers, Baby, Sneakers: You guys can pay all the attention to want to Martha, Rosie, The Herald Tribune and ABC-CNN. Me, I'm watching sneakers.