Congratulations, David:-). I feel like donning my black cap and saying "And my God have mercy on your soul."
I stopped watching TV when I left my wife nine years ago. There's no necessary connection there. I had an old TV where I moved. It had no satellite or cable and there was terrible reception. I bought "rabbit ears" and a VCR, and used the TV as a monitor.
I find television unnecessary. Radio requires the active exercise of the imagination. It's aural reading. I think in nine years I have watched only one show with any consistency, an NBC series called "Homicide." If I didn't watch it I taped it to play back the next day.
Yes, I have watched it lately even though my girlfriend is also a TV-hater who uses the set to run videos and DVDs. I keep falling into "reality TV." One night I really by accident staggered into one of those Donald Trump things, "The Apprentice," a show populated by people so pretty they could become male or female prostitutes when Trump fires them. It's like Midnight Cowboy where everyone takes baths and dresses in Armani suits and Breitling watches. I also found Martha Stewart's pathetic rip-off of Trump. He at least is a believable sonofabitch and watching that show is like watching highway accident.
When the shuttle crashed three years ago I watched the coverage.
Oddly, only last summer did I see video of the World Trade Center collapse in 2001. Having seen it without the mediation of a CNN reporter, I didn't want to see it again. Then I saw it by accident. Maybe I was looking for a baseball game and there it was.
Ken
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