January 26, 2007
snippets of whatever
This morning I figured out something really important about my planned non-fiction book, and scrawled it all over an envelope that was to hand. Pieces fell into place, the process reaching a point of new order, the steps along the path seen clearly from the destination.
Perhaps the main thing is realising that I can actually write it.
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Reality television is car wreck television. Vicarious emotion for the dead in their homes.
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Fox morning news is still brainwashing. Or from another planet. I never want to live there. In the snippet just before they were talking approvingly about what a General had just said about Iraq: namely, to “quit complaining”. The anchors found this “very sensible.”
I wonder what ate their souls, and if it hurt.
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I probably shouldn’t watch tv drunk and alone and stuck in the Hutt. But why the hell else would anyone watch tv?
Filed by billy at 11:14 pm under culture,the moose
7 Comments
I watch TV. Selectively. The medium is not the message.
Congratulations! You are a winner!
One copy of Understanding Media by Marshall Mcluhan is yours.
Hooray! It almost feels like I’m the 999,999th visitor to your website.
The 999,999th visitor was/will be a spambot.
sorry to say but your book sounds rather boring. Your points don’t seem to be new or innovative. And how can you write all these comments on TV if you don’t seem to watch it much? Please don’t be so ignorant!
I occasionally watch tv, I didn’t realise how occasionally until I caught the news recently and did not recognise a single newsreader, sportsjock, or weather presenter.
I guess that’s good.
vk: What IS his book about? Why are you trolling?
Now, I haven’t watched TV in a month, yet I can still comment on Fox’s blinded yes-manship. It makes me afraid, but not in they way that they are aiming for. You however seem like you are a product of TV, defending it like a brother, even if that brother is a murderer and a bully.
Ignorant indeed.
Moose: don’t lose that envelope. And sorry for retaliating.