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June 23, 2006
I love television
Scott Adams considers people who tell him they enjoy movies but do not enjoy television. Chances are these are people who do not have a digital video recorder, are too thick to have found any good shows or are lying.
True dat. Not trying but lying. Though I think self-professed tv-haters are a reasonably complicated kind of liar; the same kind that constantly publish whiny posts to their blogs about how blogging is stupid and nobody should read blogs (thereby ably demonstrating the point). I think it is a peculiarly Calvinist variety of mental and social retardation though Puritans of all stripes can join in the fun. Or rather, they cannot properly join in and enjoy themselves in anything and consequently neither must anyone else. This same developmentally stunted and antisocial reaction holds for their views on gambling, smoking, drinking and the sex.
No, give me Catholicism any day*: Feel guilty about it if you must - and o how you must - but for the love of God enjoy yourself. If even that is not possible I suggest the immortal advice of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to would be suicides. If you find you cannot man it up then please do the rest of us the courtesy of getting on with it and putting yourself out of our misery.
*In my case, Catholicism Lite via the Church of England.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 23, 2006 11:07 AM
Comments
Does The Henry Rollins Show count. I lurve Henry Rollins, even if I do have to mute the anti-Bush monologues and just stare.
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at June 23, 2006 11:43 AM
I did not know Henry Rollins had a television show. Though I have always had a soft-spot in my heart for the the fellow thanks to memories of listening to Black Flag, making out and drinking wine with my first love. It did not last due in part perhaps to the fact that Black Flag were crap really.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at June 23, 2006 11:47 AM
TV is the greatest thing ever in the history of the West - and if you think that about whinging bloggers you are simply never going to get my mime-based street performance art.
Posted by: Alan McLeod at June 23, 2006 12:02 PM
I had long suspected you of being in league with mimes.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at June 23, 2006 12:20 PM
You made out with Henry Rollins?
Wow. I bow to the majesty.
Posted by: agent bedhead at June 23, 2006 01:37 PM
He does not call it "the lesson of iron" for nothing.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at June 23, 2006 01:43 PM
How did you know? Yes, I am actually in "The League of Mimes", a Finn-Estonian-based competative form of the art, body contact included. Hint: sometimes the glass wall is there after all.
Posted by: Alan McLeod at June 23, 2006 02:48 PM
"Chances are these are people who do not have a digital video recorder, are too thick to have found any good shows or are lying."
I do love television (mine mostly alternates between Discovery, HGTV, and the Food Channel -- Restaurant Makeover rocks), but whenever possible, my preference is DVD.
Yes, I do own a PVR (built it myself), but I find all of the scanning through commercials annoying. My preference is to actually own the shows I like on DVD. The latest additions to the collection are House, Season One, CSI: Miami, Season Two, and the Nero Wolfe Megaset from A&E (with free t-shirt!). I have all of the seasons of Smallville on DVD, plus various and other sundry shows that I enjoy.
PVRs are nice, but popping in a DVD and ogling Kristin Kreuk at 3am is nicer. :-)
Posted by: Sean M. at June 26, 2006 12:48 PM
