for the most part however, no TV. sort of unplanned, we’ve radically changes our habits here at the fort. we used to eat dinner, 50’s style, on folding trays, in the living room, watching the TV. since the capt has moved to solids, we’ve been eating, 40’s style, at the kitchen table, with he in his high chair, listening to the radio (usually “news and notes“, which has exposed me to a whole new world of, err i dunno, lets just say it seems like we’re all not just getting along, ok?). then it’s bathtime (for the baby) then post bath chase around to get dressed time, then story time, and then-well it’s almost 10 pm. usually natty has school work to do so she goes up and does that after the capt retires.
It seems that for all the TV i watched as child/young adult/adult with out natty there to actually push me, i don’t turn the tv on, on my own. I just realized that on my road trips, i almost never turn on the tv. not even for spectravision porn. seems to carry true at home as well.

So for a month or so i was battling that shogun book, all 1210 pages of it.  i finished that last week, and forwhatever reason, i’ve picked up the corrections again, for something like the 3rd or 4th time. meanwhile the tivo is piling up episodes of the office and the wire and other shit. i almost have no desire to watch any of it. jesus, what’s happening to me.

i used to love the tv. i’d log in incredible hours. and frankly i think it really helped me–this is back before remotes, so you’d have to get up and change teh channel on your own. so i’d just leave it on one channel–mtv or hbo, or whatever. back in the day hbo used to play the same movie 3 times a day. i’d usually catch it 2x’s. soap opera’s. sure not problem, i love’d them. (i was an abc guy–after school i could catch the 2nd half of one life to live, then general hospital–what of it, i had older sisters they got me hooked, I say stamous as “blackie’ mutherfuckers–rick springfield as a doctor! FU. besides voltron didn’t come on until 4.) then the news with my parents at dinner, then jeopardy, entertainment tonight or mash, then the sitcoms….

but no more. nothing, nada, nooit. i don’t miss it, and yet i actually am not super proud of it either. it just sorta happen. soon natty will be done with school, and i’ll have to make some sort of choice, to go back, for (shudder to think) quiting and canceling dtv. hell maybe i’d get back on netflix and jsut watch dvd’s of shows i think i’d like. it’d be nice not to shell out 65 bucks a month for dtv.

hmm KILL YOUR TV everyone.

so natty was upstairs last nigth during our usual post dinner watch tivo’d tv time. so there i was, left to my own devices…i was totally lost. i pondered playing halo, but felt too lazy. so i actually flipped around looking for some stuff to watch…

so i tried watching the sports illustrated next top model rip off i mean, on paper it looks great, chicks and shit. but i could only suffer though about 4 minutes of it. they were doing some beach shoot, and this Production assistant guy was yelling at all the women in this overly done gay accent (you know what i mean), it was too much

(i’m copying wawa with the whole images thing)

so anyway the guy was overly obnoxious and the chicks were overly giggly and well as much of a dirtbag as i am, i’d rather just stream porn than listen to these chicks backstab each other. one interesting moment came when one of the judges basically tore in to everyone of the chicks and even pointed out one chick’s implant scars…hmm maybe this is closer to porn than i thought. the guy was brutal, "what do you call those things? thighs–i don’t want to see thighs or anything jiggling around…this is sports illustrated" and cue the 14k new cases of boliema…

so then i flipped around and ended up on Vh1’s strange love. man, now who doesn’t love the flava? i mean really now. but brigette nealson? ok so she was married to mark gastenu and shit but come on, i really can’t tell if this is all a set up either. the concept is just weird though. do i really want to picture these 2 having sex?

i dunno, maybe it’s just me. oh i’m sure i’ll keep watching. they showed previews of them going to flav’s mother’s house in queens or somewhere, and he got mad at his 9 kids and was flipping tables and shit. that i’d like to see.

so finally i settled in on vh1 classics and ‘we are the 80’s’.  can’t go wrong with some shock the monkey and howard jones.

after some southpark we watched some of mel brook’s "History of The World Part 1" which i hadn’t seen since i was like 11 or so.  man, that shit was sorta riske–no wonder i’m such a dirtbag. i do feel like they spent too much time in the roman period but hell, what do i know. 

wow this is going no where…fast.

end it. end it now.