You know, I brought this "temporarily" out of hiatus to confirm whether or not I was actually fit to run it. But I'm doing the same exact things now I did before.
To be honest, I'm not totally sure SBURB is a setting I'm even comfortable with. Regardless of the variation present in this game. It's not my setting, it's huge and expansive, it's largely up to interpretation and it's enormously player-driven. Maybe more than was even ideal. On top of that, I'm always constantly trending toward higher and higher levels of media inundation from the start of a game to an end (we've had, what? Three flashes in a few turns in my other game?) I seriously do not see a way around this. I'll start doing maps and think "Oh, consistency! Visual representation! I NEED this!" I'll make a panel and say, "Wow, this doesn't look good but maybe I'd be less bored if I made a million for every major event!" I'll make a Flash and say, "Wow, that took a long time but look at all this praise I'm getting! So worth it. I'll do another."
Ultimately all serve only to take things out of the players' hands and turn this back into one of Freeformschooler's Stories where I'm trying to BEDAZZLE the, what, 6-8 readers max like I always end up doing. Sorry for the rant, I'm just a bit ambivalent about this right now. Also I haven't slept in a few days.
I'm beginning to think the reason BMM42 is such a better GM is because he doesn't burn time he doesn't have on bedazzling and instead provides a consistently solid yet player-driven game experience.