“You can either sit here feeling sorry for yourself, or you can go get the woman of your dreams.”
“I didn’t know Angela Merkel was speaking at this conference.” – House
I’m not really a TV guy. I spent a lot of my life living overseas on military bases. Back then (80s -90s) there was really only 1 Armed Forces Network (AFN) station and usually it played censored crap. So I never bit off on the whole TV thing I like books, music and movies. Now when I moved over to Italy for my first assignment in the Air Force I made a couple of friends who got me watching American Idol and I found out I liked it. Not so much from the mind-numbing factor, but more the camaraderie of watching it with someone else.
A few years later another show came on that caught my interest. Namely Hero’s, mostly because it let me live out a fantasy that I have. Have some super power, get to save the world, all that jazz. (if only life was so simple) In addition, because I came late into watching the show, it let me buy the DvD’s and watch from that, in a collection, when I wanted, as opposed to being forced to a schedule.
And I attribute this to my forming addiction to TV.
So to recap, the developing factors:
1.) Camaraderie
2.) Fantasy
3.) Access
4.) Personalized Selection
5.) Boredom
Now last night I was in that state of not having enough energy to go out but still not being tired and feeling slightly guilty about turning into a old man on a friday night. I ended up watching hulu. Which happens to provide and answer all of the above factors. It started out with me just catching up on “my shows” (Hero’s, Glee, V) and then I saw a Family Guy episode, had to watch that . . and it just sorta spiraled out of control from there. I think I sampled at least one episode out of the shows they had on from this season. Yeah it was a lot of TV. Out of that I think I have to add the new Scrubs (at least for now) season and House . . how the heck did I miss this show? I understand the character so well . .
Ah well.
But as you can see, what I’m looking at in the future is what appears to be a terminal diagnosis of mind-numbery at the hands of the television.
Ahh . . all that said, it’s time for the gym, then bank, then home depot, then the tattoo parlor.
Hopefully the snow hasn’t made DC into a giant mess. I’ve never been here for snow, but if its anything like ZOMG-RAIN driving that we normally get, it’s going to be horrible.
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