not_every_home_without_a_tv_cannot_afford_one hsg can you afford to look at it this way? 071124 ... REAListic optimIST how else will those poor savages get socialized? 071124 ... unhinged i like not having a tv i read more 071124 ... hsg & what do u read? 071124 ... REAListic optimIST unsocialized savage. 071124 ... unhinged magazines (blender yoga journal vegetarian times shambala sun tricycle buddhadharma) local free newspapers (vital source sheperd express mke) books (just finished point counter point by aldous huxley sit down and shut up by brad warner and the buddha and the terrorist by satish kumar) 071125 ... REAListic optimIST I've been reading "God_is_a_Verb" by David A. Cooper and "Be_Here_Now" by Baba_Ramm_Dass along with the books I must read for my Master's degree studies. However, I must admit that I do carve out time for one television show, and that show is Heroes. 071125 ... pSyche hear hear! the only tv i allow myself to stop doing schoolwork for is Heroes. 071125 ... hsg ^^^say hi to richard_alpert for me! about to start reading: born_on_a_blue_day -inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant 071201 ... rubydee i found it rather poor...i mean the guy's story is amazing but the editing was shite. interested in what you think... in lieu of a tv: knit read stretch meditate mediate bake chop wood magazines like new yorker, the sun, new scientist, harper's; and wired and vanity_fair for lighter_fare fixing stuffed_animals for the girls read_blather the_consumerist.com boing_boing infinite possibilities and less_brain_rot haven't had one in the house for five years and never_wanna_go_back 071202 ... birdmad i have a TV, but it gets used less as a TV than as the viewing monitor for my DVD player as i am something of a film collector and as the means by which i keep my aggressions safely vented with an array of First Person Shooter games for my old Xbox Beyond that, of late i am trying to write a pair of horror/fantasy stories that i have had bouncing around the inside of my skull for the last couple of years my most recent reads are: Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" Miller's "Tropic of Camcer" and "Topic of Capricorn" Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men" Musashi's "Book of Five Rings" and i am currently making another run at trying to read through the entirety of both the Quiche Mayan creation story "Popol Vuh" and the Bhagavad Gita. the few programs i do watch on TV are "Heroes" "CSI" and the Anime shows "Bleach" "Blood+" and "Death Note" 071203 ... hsg i appreciate poorly edited books. 071203 ... ruby so? you've finished it? thoughts? i loved how he talked about the ability to multiply two large numbers together and seeing each number as an individual shape and hue, then the two meshing to form the new larger number, again with it's own distinctive shape and color. i wish my brain handled numbers like that! been enjoying mcsweeneys_quarterly myself...23-25 in particular. and anything by the mr. and dr. doris haggis-on-whey... happy new year 080101 ... REAListic optimIST i saw a youtube video on that guy. incredible! he went to meet a less functional savant. 080102 ... hsg il finish it when im back from vacation. 080102 ... just an observation and not every one who eschews television is genuinely intellectually superior 080103 what's it to you? who go blather from