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Hey, we should try plugging our TV into the cable at the house! That worked for the last few months we were in the last Balto. apt.

I'm a shameful TV addict, no doubt about it. Not having cable (since Kansas, and before that in only 2 apartments out of 6 in Baltimore, including the accidental partial cable mentioned above) hasn't necessarily meant that I don't watch way too much of it. It's just crappier TV and with a fuzzy picture.

In fact I think I watched less when we did have cable. Many many channels, harder to find something you really would like to see, a higher standard of what I'd sit in front of? I dunno. We've actually thought about succumbing at this house. Partly because of curiosity about all the queer TV on cable---or queer-ish TV.

You probably don't know, PiJ, with only a channel or two for so long, how much free TV has gone over to infomercials. Especially late at night, when I'm most wont to stare at the thing. No more late movies. I guess it started with Reagan, who also got the ball rolling on allowing more commercials per hour.

Hell in a handcart.

Politically TV is debilitating because you see what the general population is watching and realize how nigh-on impossible it is to counteract that current. But if you aren't monitoring mass media to some extent, can you fully know what you're up against?

Not to defend the vile habit---in the least. I sometimes wish I were a smoker instead.

Well, maybe not a smoker.