Happy Wednesday, all–
Andrea and I haven’t had cable in at least five years thanks to Netflix, Hulu and the growing number of online video options, and we really don’t miss paying $60 a month for 700 channels of things we don’t watch. Part of that is because we’re remarkably busy people, considering how lazy we are, and part of it is the fact that the overwhelming majority of content on television is crap, cooked up because they have too many channels and they have to fill them with SOMEthing.
My favorite example of this was Ghost Hunters. We have a friend who insisted that we HAD to lift our TV embargo to watch this show. It’s compelling television, he said. Coolest thing out there.
What Ghost Hunters was, was about six seconds of genuinely interesting footage per episode, which they play and replay over and over again. This amounts to about three minutes of interesting content a week. The show is an hour long.
My friend is a goon.
So, every now and then, Andrea and I find ourselves housesitting or hiding from her family during Thanksgiving or something, and we end up watching TV. Andrea ends up despairing. I end up angry. And we turn the thing off and vow never to watch TV ever, ever again. Someday, we’ll follow through on this.
Luke
Man, I hate to be the douchey one to point this out (and I’m ashamed that I know at all), but it’s “Kardashians.”
*cough* green Eyebrows *cough* For St. Patrick’s Day, right?
And I would TOTALLY watch “Keeping Up with the Cardassians.” They’re a very family oriented people, you know.
Wait…Cardassians are a sci-fi thing or something, aren’t they? I missed some kind of sci-fi reference and look stupid now, don’t I?
Never mind me. As you were…
No, you look entirely normal, believe me. Relish your humanity.