Channel 3: Inside some prison, Asian guys sweat. “You can run, but you can’t hide!” {yawn}
Channel 5: YoPlait ad: “It is so good!” Well. No.
Channel 8-1: Some woman singing some syrupy song. PBS is in the throes of another of its interminable beg-a-thons; apparently they think this sort of thing stimulates the well-heeled to cough up money.
Channel 8-2: Some nerd is going on about the glories of broccoli. OMG! Broccoli is a natural food!!!! Moving on.
Channel 8-3: Another nerdly looking fellow is going on about some physical or mental ailment “JOIN OR RENEW ONLINE 480-965-8800″…ah…it’s one of the current fad ailments. Give me a break.
Channel 8-4: Treacly lite classical Muzak with slideshow of stills.
Channel 10: Ad for American Idol (how much longer is that thing going to last??). Ad for TMZ. Ad for AAA. Ad for…
Channel 12: Ad for Microsoft. Very expensive-looking ad for Microsoft. Really? Excruciating.
Channel 15: “I’m very aware of what 3XK is capable of, Detective Tyson!” (…apparently, of extreme, graphic, and intensely boring violence…)
Channel…OFF!
Is there anything on? Anywhere?? Apparently not on the public airwaves.
In other precincts, one of my clients is selling one of her e-books bundled in with a package of diet and health-care books: 53 e-books, an $800 value, retail, for only $39.97. You need to move quickly, though, because this offer ends on Thursday. Check it out!
Check out her new book on cooking with coconut flour, too.
Meanwhile, Funny’s beloved Web Wrangler, Jesse Michelson, has launched a new blog called AntiNecktie, a paean to freedom from the hamster wheel. He reports that last year was not a junket through the Best of All Possible Worlds, but apparently things are looking up.
Hufflepup works hard at training the humans. Refractory critters, but over time he succeeds in getting his way. 😉
At Blue Collar Workman, TB has landed a new job. Sounds pretty strenuous…but a great way to work off your frustrations before you knock off at 5:00!
Wait…what? A miracle! An airline company caught in the act of being nice to a customer! Been a while since we’ve heard a story like this one.
After the January from Hell, Evan and The Wife finally seem to be having a chance to catch their collective breath.
Money Beagle contemplates the best ways to keep bread from going stale.
I’m forwarding Nicoleandmaggie’s “Academia Is Just a Job” to all my friends! Isn’t it interesting how long it takes people on the tenure track to figure that out?
Crystal is trying to figure ways around the Dictatorship of Big Cyberbrother. Should be interesting to see how that goes.
ohhhhhhh it’s the middle of th’night! And so, to bed…
…..and for those who subscribe to cable…..it gets no better. Reality TV has taken over those channels….where it really ought to be called “fantasy TV”. On the bright side maybe this will encourage DW to cut the cable. That savings of $100 a month would be welcomed….
Yeah, that’s one of the reasons I won’t pay for cable: a hundred channels with nothing on.
THanks for including me! Awesome 🙂
Man, TV channels, I know. I love watchign sports and there’s some shows my family and me like, but… the commercials drag on and they’re stupid! And too many shows are stupid. I guess TV and radio and sutff has alwasy just been for entertainment though right? And hey, if american idol still entertains peopel,then by all means let them watch it , right? Lol I cant stand it though, my youngest daughter loves it. that apple fell far from the tree 🙂
Sports seems to me to be the only good reason to pay for cable. If you’re really into spectator sports, it’s probably worth it. Otherwise: Netflix. Or (hang onto your hat) find something else to do. 😀
We got rid of television service in the spring of 2004 and haven’t missed it much. We kept the sets (2) for DVD watching. My daughter complains about the old-fashioned sets and no service, but I know she is better off for less exposure to all the junk that passes for culture these days.
I feel like when I read my Google Reader, it’s like watching “tv”, since I got rid of my clunker of a tv last summer. I watch my sister’s Netflix every now and then, but not very often. TV is over rated.
Must tackle that pile of library books on my night table 🙂
It’s a pale shadow of its former self, that’s for sure.
Uhm…wait…its former self was a.k.a. “The Vast Wasteland“…