Tuesday, January 2, 2007
UN AMERICAN
TONIGHT I COMMITTED A VERY UN AMERICAN ACT. I SAT AT DINING ROOM TABLE WITH FOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FOR SEVERAL HOURS DID THE UNTHINKABLE, DURING PRIME TIME ON TV. WE CONVERSED, WITH EVERYONE JOINING IN THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. HEAVEN FORBID, WE DIDN'T DISCUSS SPORTS, TALK ABOUT WHO WAS WEARING PANTIES OR NOT, OR THE LATEST ABOUT DONALD OR ROSIE. NO RADIO OR TV BLARING, WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT. AND TO ALL OUR SURPRISE THE POLICE DIDN'T COME CRASHING THROUGH THE DOOR, AND FORCE US TO TURN ON THE TV. IF ONLY A FEW MORE PEOPLE TRIED IT, WE MAY FIND PEOPLE STARTING TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES, AND WEEN OURSELVES AWAY FROM MADISON AVENUE HYPES TELLING US HOW WE SHOULD START OUR MORNING AND END OUR DAY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.
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Stop yelling at everyone Pete. We know you're crabby, but come on!
By the way, I can't believe YOU of all people weren't watching tv! Wasn't As Time Goes By on? What about the Weather Channel or the History Channel. You're slipping old man, I expect your membership card for the Communist party will arrive any day.
Another post already? Impressive. You are getting pretty slick with the computer "old man"!
May be if I yelled at you a bit louder, we could straighten you out.
At least the shows I watch are stimulating for the mind.
Surprising you could pull yourself away from american idol and dancing with the stars.
for meander
I guess the old saying is true.
You can teach an old dog new tricks.
I have never watched American Idol or Dancing with the Stars if you've read my blog at all, you'd know that I stick to the Joss Whedon classics. I prefer his fantasy worlds to acknowledging that the rest of the world would rather watch talentless, has-been celebrities learn to ballroom dance or shrill, bratty-wannabes butcher really good music while the high-brow, intelligent wit of a show featuring Manderin speaking, cowboy-space-pirates gets canceled after 11 episodes.
Plus, old British people making sexual innuendos is gross.
Wow! Pete, this is so exciting! Your own blog, you are such a 21st century guy!
Thank you Colleen. But I like living in the 20th century.
As for Liza, those books you call classics, the rest of the general public commonly refers to them as Harlequin romances.
And if you would ever pay attention to that show, there are no sexual innuendos, just plain good british humor.
I'm sorry, the only good humor you know, comes on the end of a popsicle stick dispensed by a man wearing a white suit and hat and driving a small white truck, ringing his bells.
Who said I was talking about BOOKS? We were talking about TELEVISION! You don't want to get in to a war with me on who has better taste in literature. Because this time the unicorn would beat the lion all around the town.
Yes, your stack of comic books is bigger then mine. Happy now.
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