For those of you who do not know....
I have spent the last 40 days without an idiot box, commonly referred to as a television set. I proposed the idea to God and he made it so (I had THOUGHT about giving up TV for lent and I came home and my tv did not work....therefore I had to give up tv for lent!) Miraculously however, one day while cleaning my room I thought I was going to just throw my television out and I decided to test it one last time, I did, and amazingly it worked.... so after all of that, I have spent 40 days without TV and now I am back to it....
I kinda missed it, but in ways I didn't realize until I was watching it again. For example, at this moment I am getting my Will & Grace on.... I watched Will and Grace three times a day pre-Lent, but I had forgotten all about it until I caught it while flipping through channels.
TV isn't just sitcoms; it is your connection to the world unlike the internet. I did not know of ANY of the movies out because without TV, I never saw a single movie ad. People made comical references to Top Model, MtV Shows, commercials.... basically everything I missed!
but what got me the most
was that MTV had resurrected what had been my reason for late night living throughout the summer during high school... UNDRESSED
as an undersexualized American teen, UNDRESSED was the perfect amount of soft core porn and teenage petty drama to keep my attention night after night,
DONT FRONT
I know you guys were watching it too....
so I spent last night watching episode after episode of corny story lines like "girls boobs grow, cute guy wants to smash" and "expensive hot girlfriend making stupid guy go broke" and so on and so forth.... the hilarity, the memories, the fun.....
Anyways... I'm back to my wasted hours in front of my box
April 10, 2007
Easter Sunday: Roots or Ten Commandments??
contemplated by queenhatshepsut at 9:18 PM
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