Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Every now and then, I’m tempted to call up the local cable TV provider and arrange to get them to come out to my house and hook me up. This month, I’ve been tempted by the Masterpiece Theatre month of new Jane Austen movies - plus the 90s versions of the BBC’s Emma and Pride and Prejudice.
Before I get the chance to call, however, I see something that reminds me of the huge amount of trash surrounding the few gems of cable television. Today, I got that sort of reminder as I was walking through the airport and saw, that with us in the middle of the presidential nomination process, and all the other important stories going on, CNN is reporting that…
…Britney Spears has just left the courthouse… wearing sunglasses… and tracked by helicopters as her vehicle goes down the highway… because it’s news that she’s in a car of some sort, apparently.
Of course, it’s not fair to accuse cable television, solely. On CNN’s web site, Britney Spears is listed as the number one “hot topic”.
Cable television seems designed to give the American public exactly what it craves. If news about Britney Spears leaving a courthouse in a car is the breaking coverage that America craves, I’d rather stay tuned out.
If I want Jane Austen, I can read one of her books.
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Airports have a nice ambience to them.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
What is this “Britney” of which you speak?
As for me, give me Tyra. I do so want to see her talk to Hillary on Friday’s show. Oh I know Tyra’s an airhead, but I can’t get enough of her. When I go out walking, I pretend I’m Tyra and as the second hour of exercise gets me dragging, I tell myself “fierce walk, fierce walk” and pretend I’m slinking down a runway in something trendy instead of trudging past dumpsters, tar-paper siding, broken sidewalks, street people talking to themselves. Fierce walk, I say to myself, peering out of my puffy hooded down jacket and strutting under my baggy sweats. Fierce walk.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Hey, I talk to myself! On behalf of semi-schizophrenics every where, I say HUZZAH!
I concur. HUZZAH!