Deja Vu Lane

from New York Times

It’s a trip down déjà vu lane for the participants as well as the reader, as memories of how NBC nudged Johnny Carson into retirement and ambivalently passed over David Letterman in favor of Leno per­meate nearly every choice made this time around.

Conan O'Brien's usurpation of Jay Leno recalls when Leno himself surpassed David Letterman. So this stuff happens in cycles. Repetition. A second "trip down memory lane."

But as Heraclitus knew, it is impossible to step into the same river twice. What you knew as Memory Lane has been recolonized by some neural city planner. It's now Deja Vu Lane, and you're grasping at recollections instead of reality. TV is a dreamlife!