Filling the web page gap for "Friday Night Lights"

For many people blogs provide a means to rant. Or they might just be a way to make a private journal public. And, a few, like Sleepless in Midland, actually try to provide a service. Okay, I'll admit that just about everything I write about is something I'm interested in anyway. So, when others find something useful here then I feel like I've accomplished something.

As just about everyone knows, the movie "Friday Night Lights" is currently being filmed in Odessa, Texas. It has been very exiting for us locals, and it has been profitable for those local people who have been involved. The production staff has paid out a lot of money to various people and groups around town, and I've heard that some of those people whose real names were being used in the movie either have or will have received $10,000 payments. And, I've heard that a local high school band also received $10,000.

But, here's an area they neglected - a web page. I've used the search engines to try to find the official "Friday Night Lights" movie web page, and unless I overlooked it, it doesn't exist. So, with all of that money they had to spend, they neglected to buy a web page to use as a hub for information and contacts. And, there are some local page makers who could have handled the job quite nicely.

I've written quite a few items about the filming of the movie - click Friday Night Lights to see them. And, a lot of search engine users have landed on these pages looking for information about the movie. In fact, the other day I received an email from someone with an email suffix of a major Hollywood studio asking if this was the way to reach a named person who is instrumental with the movie. No, sorry. It isn't.

Like the seat fillers at the Academy Awards show, Sleepless in Midland has become a "Friday Night Lights" web page gap filler. A unofficial gap filler at least until an official site is up, but it's a gap filler glad to have the job. Hey, where's my $10,000? Just kidding. There's no pay in it for me - this is a labor of love.