I never watch television, I haven't watched it since 9/11. Mainly because I
cannot stand Italian television. I could buy the satellite since I have been
buying it for my parents as a Xmas holiday. My father is upset and has been
asking me please to allow him to buy me a television. I finally reassured
him when I discovered a couple of days ago that I can watch all the news I
want on my pc.
I know how prone I am to get lost in front of visual activity in front of my
eyes. My hyper-criticism against Italian television finally gave me the
opportunity to shut it down forever and to pick up good books or read
interesting online pages, and besides that I love classical music.
But I do watch movies whenever I can and as many as I can. When I have some
time I borrow from the local library heaps of DVD's and just get lost.
On Feb 18, 2008 11:42 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hey, we watch a lot of TV down here! And we're loving
> every minute of it, as Max S. used to say. No football
> though. No Idols.
>
> I used to see The National before Al Gore & chums bought
> the channel that carried World News International (mostly
> Canadian news w/ large dollops of news from China, GB,
> Japan, Germany, and a few other places) and turned it
> into pablum for 18-28 year-olds. That man (Gore) has a
> lot to answer for imho. I mean, a state-wide recount
> in Florida would have kept the election out of the Supreme
> Court, where he lost the presidency by one vote. Sheesh.
>
> Hal
>
> "The nation without great poets will
> not have great politicians."
> --Saddam Hussein
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
> > But Hal, Kellie Pickler, cute as she must be, needs to spend all
> > her learning time on studying how to become an Idol. This certainly
> > helps one to make more sense of that last line, though (though it
> > had its own charm without the facts).
> >
> > Hmmnn. I know that I too would have a hard time getting through a
> > week (especially during football season) without turning on the TV,
> > but then I do watch CBC's The National, one hour of news, every
> > night....
> >
> > Doug
> > On 17-Feb-08, at 8:32 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> I think you're probably right about that last line, Frederick.
> >> I was probably too much under the sway of
> >>
> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html
> >>
> >> this article in the NYT last week. It (the line) will be
> >> scrutinized further. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Hal
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
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> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> > Drive right past that lady, that's
> > St. As Is.
> >
> > George Bowering
>
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