Comments on: Why I Avoid TV [Part 10]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:40:15 +0000

Whig, my Mother uses TV when she knits or crochets because she has done it so long that her hands “do it automatically” and she wants something to occupy her mind. My Dad used it the same way I use radio, to block other distractions.

Take a deep breath, Len, and a cold shower.

By: Len Cleavelin

Len Cleavelin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:46:31 +0000

Maria Conchita Alonso!

I only remember her from her role in Moscow on the Hudson, where she played the girlfriend to Robin Williams’s Russian defector. And particularly a bathtub scene where Williams got to lay back in the tub and feel Ms. Alonso’s naked back rub all against his chest, and he got to grope her chest while she sported HUGE nipple erections.

All I could think of for days afterwards was, “F*ck! He’s got PAID for that!”

*sigh*

By: whig

whig — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:07:10 +0000

I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report. Also the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. These make sure that I’m well connected to the inputs that ordinary people have without being swamped by disinformation. We got a Tivo for Christmas and that way I can skip the crap guests on the News Hour. Also the commercials for the Comedy Central shows.

My wife watches more TV, it helps her unwind and she says she works better with the background noise sometimes. I don’t. I work best when the apartment is quiet.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:50:41 +0000

Even if I liked television, I wouldn’t deal with Cox cable to get it, and I dodged too many of those little dishes in the last hurricane to try Direct TV, which is now tied to the the local telco.

Hmm, seems like that relationship demands a flowchart.

Lots of promises of rain, but little to show for it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:17:56 +0000

I watch TV when Stella wants me to do so, when there is a national emergency of some sort, when there are live congressional hearings available on broadcast networks (almost never), and maybe every 3-4 weeks to remind myself how deficient TV news is compared to the web. Other than that, my TV is for watching DVDs, of which I own very few, but Stella has a great many. BS (Before Stella), I watched late-night reruns of M*A*S*H and various Star Trek series. For better or worse, TV does not occupy a big role in my life.

An old girlfriend’s husband’s former girlfriend used to participate in beauty pageants, and occasionally regales us with many hilarious tales of same. I never knew that there were such uses for duct tape!

Sorry your weather was unsuitable. It could be worse, as you well know.