Comments on: Kill Your Television http://www.edwardsblock.com/archives/814 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pat http://www.edwardsblock.com/archives/814/comment-page-1#comment-552 Pat Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:54:08 +0000 http://www.edwardsblock.com/?p=814#comment-552 Well said Ed. While I own a stupid box, I find the on button is depressed when I have a cold/flu and it acts as a drug when reading, writing and thinking isn’t possible. When I need to be anesthetized I go to the TV. For all my disdain, it has its uses and I’m thinking of people who use it as company. Older folk and others, who can’t get out of the house with ease, have long since given up making new friends to name a few reasons. I have also found that in certain circles admitting to watching TV is something akin to killing kittens. While I agree with you Ed there are always exceptions to the rule. It’s true, TV is a drug and it’s too easy to plop yourself on chair, switch on the TV and in the process switch off your brain. You can’t engage with a TV the way you can with a book or human being. Now try telling people you do not plan to turn the TV on during the Olympics or that you have no interest in such a circus. Well said Ed. While I own a stupid box, I find the on button is depressed when I have a cold/flu and it acts as a drug when reading, writing and thinking isn’t possible. When I need to be anesthetized I go to the TV. For all my disdain, it has its uses and I’m thinking of people who use it as company. Older folk and others, who can’t get out of the house with ease, have long since given up making new friends to name a few reasons.

I have also found that in certain circles admitting to watching TV is something akin to killing kittens. While I agree with you Ed there are always exceptions to the rule. It’s true, TV is a drug and it’s too easy to plop yourself on chair, switch on the TV and in the process switch off your brain. You can’t engage with a TV the way you can with a book or human being.

Now try telling people you do not plan to turn the TV on during the Olympics or that you have no interest in such a circus.

]]> By: stella http://www.edwardsblock.com/archives/814/comment-page-1#comment-551 stella Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:04:06 +0000 http://www.edwardsblock.com/?p=814#comment-551 Stella loves the Tudors!!! Particularly all those humpy shots of Henry humping his ladies. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays Henry, is a bad boy fantasy (and a real bad boy in real life, so they say!) Stella loves the Tudors!!! Particularly all those humpy shots of Henry humping his ladies. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays Henry, is a bad boy fantasy (and a real bad boy in real life, so they say!)

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