Who among you will have the courage to take issue with me when I say that the greatest invention of the 20th Century is…wait for it…the mute button on the television remote? That one tiny grey (I painted mine red to speed things up) can shut out the world of hard sell car dealers, furniture [...]
Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
To mute or not to mute…
Posted in Kindle, Media, Opinions, Television on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Aging without TV
Posted in Beauty, Changing yourself, Growing old, Human behavior, Opinions, People, Television on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Television sets have many uses. Depending on size and placement, they a great spot for setting up a few Christmas decorations, but make certain they don’t melt…just kidding. On a more serious note, television, when turned on, can be highly educational. It can be a source inspiration, particularly if you’re into those exercise programs designed [...]
Am I mentally unbalanced?
Posted in Growing old, Human behavior, Life, Opinions, Television on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are we, as a nation, so mentally unbalanced that we feel compelled to watch television news broadcasts? I know I’ve touched on this before in other blogs, but what has brought it home in a very powerful way has been the sex scandal at Penn State, the dismissal of a US gymnastics coach for sexual [...]
Parochialism at home
Posted in Media, News, Opinions, Television on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If it happens west of the Mississippi,” you don’t hear about it. The speaker was Juli, my partner, and she is absolutely correct. Boston newscasters and even those who purport to be reporting on news of a wider sort rarely discuss news making events in other parts of our own country. Oh, sure, we see [...]
What does “local” really mean?
Posted in News, Opinions, Technology, Television, Trust on August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“If it happens west of the Mississippi,” you don’t hear about it. The speaker was Juli, my partner, and she is absolutely correct. Boston newscasters and even those who purport to be reporting on news of a wider sort rarely discuss news making events in other parts of our own country. Oh, sure, we see [...]
My top ten – not!
Posted in Opinions, Television on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Television advertising today is so irritating that I finally purchase a Nerf gun to shoot foam bullets at some of the assholes I am forced to watch between program segments. They won’t shatter the screen but they certainly satisfy my most hidden desires. I can just hear Dr. Phil now: “You really should be turning [...]
It’s not all about sex
Posted in Greed, Human behavior, Opinions, Television on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow, the past few days have been all about sex! The Governator and his little bastard, Dominique Stauss-Khan and his diddlings with a hotel maid; and Keith Richards recent revelations about the groupies who used to follow him to his hotel room, etc. I wouldn’t be bothered by all of this so much but where [...]
On buying a new TV
Posted in Human behavior, Personal, Technology, Television on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you tried to buy a new television set lately? You can’t; you just cannot walk into a store and buy a television set. Our daughter and her husband recently purchased “a set.” According to her, he researched their purchase for nearly a year. I was beginning to think that he caught one too [...]
No need for imagination
Posted in Television on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember the first couple to sleep in the same bed on a television program? No? It had been suggested by the writers in 1962 that Lucy and Ricky Ricardo might share the marriage bed, but that was kyboshed by the censors. The same suggestion had been made for Rob and Laura Petrie [...]
