My desire to enter only Blogs that I feel are either interesting, funny, enlightening or informative creates a major mental writing block for me. I’m afraid that if I merely report daily events of my current, rather mundane life I will lose my huge (lol) audience. Hence, with so little to write about I feel a need to apologize for the sporadic entries to this site.
I have, however, had some recent thoughts about television. I realized that it has a hold on me. Although I have enjoyed reading books in the past, not an avid reader, but I’ve gone thru quite a few books in my time, I find that I only look at them now to see of they’re still standing straight on the book cases. What a shame! The minute I sit down in my recliner I grab the remote and begin my journey up and down thru the numbers seeking that one elusive channel that satisfied me long enough to stop and watch. I continue to do this even though I’ve been convinced long ago that most of them stink. My channel surfs usually end up on the Travel Channel or the Food Channel which is at least something I can relate to.
Besides the junk they send us twenty four hours a day, just try to find something besides infomercials during the wee hours if you happen to have an insomniac night. And speaking of commercials (might be something I’ve already ranted about) have you ever seen so many? They must be giving them away, think I’ll make one myself, use it as my personal “Bitch Channel”. Do you really want to be annoyed, just start paying attention to the canned laughter on the sit-coms or listen to the constant loud barrage of background music on the commercials and shows? Ever notice that the sound level you chose is not valid when the commercial comes on. Boy, they really want you to hear it. Even with my age produced impaired hearing I have to turn it down.
Well folks, I’m kind of happy I started to write these thoughts down, because I’ve convinced myself that those lonely, unread novels on the shelves are finally going to get my attention. My daughter loaned me several Stephen King novels about four years ago which will now replace a few hours of useless TV watching. Mary Ann, I promise you’ll be getting them back shortly.
4 comments:
Dad - Glad to see you've decided to pick up those books. I can't even remember which ones I loaned you, I can only hope that they're decent ones! I don't want to be responsible for you becoming disillusioned with reading, too! Now we need to find some new authors and topics to keep it fresh for you.
And to quote Kathy, "Holy Crap!". I thought I was the only one whose mind occasionally latches onto the laugh track and then just CAN'T let go of it. Drives me NUTS, and ruins all enjoyment of the show - it's all I can concentrate on after that...
HELL - Maybe I'll start reading and we can start a book club. Unfortunately, I am reading books on Krissy's level.
Hey! I'd love to have a book club! (Kathy - if it helps, we could always read books that have also been made into movies!) :-)
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