An incredible oratory piece [1] by Eric Burns [2] (at about 17 minutes or so, but worth the listen) about artistic endevours, or rather, the lack of artistic endevours (and the Match Game [3]) that I suspect quite a few people I know can intimately relate to.
[1] http://podcasts.websnark.com/?p=4
[2] http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/08/faq_cast_page.html