television splinken i've always been a conformist. 010518 ... birdmad and the cathode ray long live the new flesh 010519 ... argo I watch so much tv, it hurts like a big unnamed sore. I know Seinfeld better than he knows himself. Oh tv. I'm watching it right now. 020205 ... misstree "I hate television like I hate peanuts. But I can't seem to stop eating peanuts." -Orson Welles No tele in the house, just a handful of movies and dsl, with a 42 inch tv as a secondary monitor. I will choose my own soma. 020205 ... Miffey god damn I hate TV. it's so boring, the same situations in the same types of comedies with different people saying different things. And what the fuck is up with this realtiy TV bullshit??? Does anyone else see the problem with this? IF YOU WANT REALITY... GET OFF THE DAMN COUCH AND GO OUTSIDE. Alright. Thanks for your time... now a word from our sponsors. 020309 ... little wonder last year, we wrote 2 plays and various commercials about voyeurism television. it was appropriately called VTV. we had [kmart survivor] and a [mr. rogers talk show] and another godfather sort of tv show based play that i helped to write. my fondest memory, is of shooting the webcam of the college kids video taping themselves and broadcasting it online. they sat there the whole time eating potato chips and staring at the tv [we were watching rugrats] there was this one who sat there with one of those paddle ball thingies and he progressively got faster and then i can't seem to remember what happened. we had to shoot that web cam show so many damn times because one or more people kept laughing and screwing it up. (i was one of the more guilty, i had to eventually hide my face partially by the beanbag i was sitting in) we had to keep still and not laugh for 60 (or was it 30?) whole seconds. the only word being spoken was "Chip?" 020310 ... jawbreaker we're too smart to watch tv we're too dumb to make belive this is all we want from life 020331 ... spoons "teacher, mother, secret lover..." homer 020331 ... pilgrim The mother of dissatisfaction Creating a sense of material poverty And envy for all those "things" That if you only had them Then your life could Be like That Taking away our patience By resolving all conflict In Half an Hour With time out To sell you something along the way Creating a sense of isolation while Overpowering you with a skewed view Of world events and Selective Tragedy One after another so that everything Is a Cold Blue Blur Glowing through drawn shades Into the Lonely Streets of Everytown USA 020401 ... lulie Sound Bite News, 30 Minute Comedy Solutions, Infomercials, Salvation, Warner Brothers. 020401 ... amy "mass communication medium" 030217 what's it to you? who go blather from