I don't think I've turned on the TV in a week. I've been doing XM radio instead--mainly the novelty xmas song and uncensored Canadian comedian channels, and surfing for Bob and Ray bits.
Yeah, really--there's a channel dedicated to uncensored Canadian comics. "Okay, I know some of you are listening from outside the country, so I should explain Newfie jokes. Americans who are listening, Newfoundland is like your Alabama. And the rest of the world, Newfoundland is like America." :)
*foofrh* A week. I'm workin' on four years. :) Except for a couple of clicks in a hotel here and there, a couple of times over at Les's watching the Food Network, or trying to get local weather or traffic at a friend's house, nothin' that ain't on the computer or DVD. I just don't need it.
Although, given the chance, I am compelled to inform all and sundry that my West Coast sweetie Toni Blair (http://www.toniblair.biz/) (the good one) will be on this week's Will and Grace.
DVD doesn't help when you have a tornado or winter storm warning, tho--radio notwithstanding, I really prefer having the Weather Channel around when things get fugly up above.
In my defense, I literally can't recall the last time I turned on network TV. Cartoon Network, The Golf Channel, The History Channel, Food Network, Sci Fi, The Weather Channel, and C-SPAN 1 and 2. Give me BBC America and The Science Channel and that new liberal station Al Gore started, and I could be perfectly happy.
Man, I would love a la carte cable programming. Goodbye Faux News and all the shopping and religion channels.
Oh, and Bawbwah? Some of us AREN'T trying to get to this Heaven your Book-following friends there are all trying to get to but, now get this, we may still believe in an afterlife. Isn't that amazing? Consider for a moment that the news is supposed to INFORM, not CONFORM, and maybe you'll get an idea for another show: "Life: Are We Supposed To Be Idiots or Are We Just Too Stupid To Get It?"
I deal with it like this: It's all fiction. Some of it may use pictures of things that actually happen as background for the storytelling, and it may be possible to glean some small crumbs of information therefrom (and be horrified), but nothing that is presented on telly as fact can be accepted as fact. It's too easy to stage stuff, and the powers have shown themselves too willing to do so. (Cf. the Bloom County cartoon with various animals uncertain if they were watching a war film or a documentary: "Will someone please tell me if I should be enjoying this or not...")
So, this bit of flummery is no different from any other bit of flummery. There are people who will believe it, just as there are people who believe Coronation Street is a real place, or Peyton Place is a real street. Sad, but there you go. And while I would rather ream out my nostrils with a 5/8" brace and bit than watch it myself, I wouldn't let its mere existence put me off watching things I wanted to watch. How many of those shows on DVD weren't financed by being made for, and shown on, TV first? How many would we get if nobody watched live TV? (I don't know, I'm asking...)
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Date: 2005-12-18 10:12 pm (UTC)I'd give up TV, too, except that there are things like Battlestar Galactica and Numb3rs mixed in with the crappage.
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Date: 2005-12-18 10:34 pm (UTC)I don't think I've turned on the TV in a week. I've been doing XM radio instead--mainly the novelty xmas song and uncensored Canadian comedian channels, and surfing for Bob and Ray bits.
Yeah, really--there's a channel dedicated to uncensored Canadian comics. "Okay, I know some of you are listening from outside the country, so I should explain Newfie jokes. Americans who are listening, Newfoundland is like your Alabama. And the rest of the world, Newfoundland is like America." :)
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Date: 2005-12-18 10:41 pm (UTC)Although, given the chance, I am compelled to inform all and sundry that my West Coast sweetie Toni Blair (http://www.toniblair.biz/) (the good one) will be on this week's Will and Grace.
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Date: 2005-12-18 10:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-18 11:11 pm (UTC)Iron Chef... on DVD. Galactica, Firefly, Lost, Stargate Atlantis, The Daily Show....
D.
V.
D.
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Date: 2005-12-18 11:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-19 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-19 01:49 am (UTC)DVD doesn't help when you have a tornado or winter storm warning, tho--radio notwithstanding, I really prefer having the Weather Channel around when things get fugly up above.
In my defense, I literally can't recall the last time I turned on network TV. Cartoon Network, The Golf Channel, The History Channel, Food Network, Sci Fi, The Weather Channel, and C-SPAN 1 and 2. Give me BBC America and The Science Channel and that new liberal station Al Gore started, and I could be perfectly happy.
Man, I would love a la carte cable programming. Goodbye Faux News and all the shopping and religion channels.
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Date: 2005-12-18 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-19 01:53 am (UTC)So, this bit of flummery is no different from any other bit of flummery. There are people who will believe it, just as there are people who believe Coronation Street is a real place, or Peyton Place is a real street. Sad, but there you go. And while I would rather ream out my nostrils with a 5/8" brace and bit than watch it myself, I wouldn't let its mere existence put me off watching things I wanted to watch. How many of those shows on DVD weren't financed by being made for, and shown on, TV first? How many would we get if nobody watched live TV? (I don't know, I'm asking...)
Where Is It? How Do I Get There?
Date: 2005-12-19 05:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-19 01:30 pm (UTC)I'm not any saner, but I have more time and I sleep better.
:)