Saturday, November 22, 2008
HAPPINESS IS A COOL TV SET
Well, I am very happy and I don't watch teevee. In fact, I am happy that I don't watch teevee. A subset.
We unplugged the cable 11 years ago when we moved from our Boston house to an interim apartment.
We had accidentally hung a very large painting over the access port and were so cool to watching teevee that it was an easy call not to remove the painting for the cable.
Since then, we have never looked back.
When we moved out here we had detoxed and were not interested in re-engaging with the television world we had left.
Now, I do admit, I watch a half hour of television at the gym every day, Monday through Friday. But the sound is off so I am getting the "hearing impaired" version.
We actually get the sound of the music video but that doesn't count as broadcast television. It is a closed circuit show of the same old thing over and over.
I can see and not hear CNN and ESPN on my side of the gym or I can move to the other side and see MSNBC (Morning Joe) and ESPN. ESPN gets the nod at the gym.
I choose my side because that is where the recumbent bikes are. The other sides are upright and hurt my ass.
I would like to watch and not listen to Morning Joe Scarborough just to stir my adrenaline up. I like him in a sort of masochistic way when I see his little video clips on the 'net.
But the upright bikes hurt my ass.
That is what my television watching has come down to and I am very happy.
Labels: life, television
