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May. 12th, 2004 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fearlesstempAm home sick from work, which means I've been ODing on cable TV all day. A few notes:
-Roswell, after the first season? Really crappy! This coming from someone who watched religiously when it first came around, all the way through half or three-quarters of the third season.
-W is for Women: apparently one of Bush's campaign slogans. I am not making this up! They have signs! That people are waving around in a completely earnest, emphatic way! It is so horrifyingly bad and wrong that my head almost exploded, and that is only the slightest exaggeration since I've got so much sinus pressure going on right now.
-Kerry is apparently leading by a small margin in the national polls, even with Nader factoring in (though his lead widens when Nader's taken out of the race). I have all of these rambling strident things to say about Nader, and the only reason I'm not saying them now is because I'm on cold medication and don't trust myself to make sense. I actually just had to delete a three-sentence obnoxious rant that stood in the place this sentence is currently occupying because I felt I would offend people. Maybe later.
-Charlie Rose is strangely alluring. I don't know what it is -- the black backdrop? The lack of commercials? The intelligent discourse? All of the above?
I've spent the last half hour or so fighting the lure of awful cable news. It infuriates me, and yet I can't look away! Am going to go get ginger ale, and must go now or I'll watch Crossfire. And I don't want to watch Crossfire.
-Roswell, after the first season? Really crappy! This coming from someone who watched religiously when it first came around, all the way through half or three-quarters of the third season.
-W is for Women: apparently one of Bush's campaign slogans. I am not making this up! They have signs! That people are waving around in a completely earnest, emphatic way! It is so horrifyingly bad and wrong that my head almost exploded, and that is only the slightest exaggeration since I've got so much sinus pressure going on right now.
-Kerry is apparently leading by a small margin in the national polls, even with Nader factoring in (though his lead widens when Nader's taken out of the race). I have all of these rambling strident things to say about Nader, and the only reason I'm not saying them now is because I'm on cold medication and don't trust myself to make sense. I actually just had to delete a three-sentence obnoxious rant that stood in the place this sentence is currently occupying because I felt I would offend people. Maybe later.
-Charlie Rose is strangely alluring. I don't know what it is -- the black backdrop? The lack of commercials? The intelligent discourse? All of the above?
I've spent the last half hour or so fighting the lure of awful cable news. It infuriates me, and yet I can't look away! Am going to go get ginger ale, and must go now or I'll watch Crossfire. And I don't want to watch Crossfire.
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Date: 2004-05-12 02:34 pm (UTC)Don't forget that terrific round wooden table they all sit around for the interviews. I'm telling you, it's so much better than your typical talk show format where they're lined up on a couch looking uncomfortable.
Feel better, sweetie! {{{hugs}}}
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Date: 2004-05-13 01:36 pm (UTC)I think that is part of the appeal! People seem far more comfortable and less like they'd like to jump across the table/through the TV monitor to throttle each other. It makes for a much more pleasant viewing experience.
And thanks for the get-well wishes! I feel much better today.