TV Blackout
For some reason, I find this whole thing amusing. The language used seems to imply that losing television is some big national tragedy, that the "unprepared" viewers are in some ambiguous danger. I would love to see ALL television signals change to static…. oh, wouldn't that be nice! I was disheartened to learn that cable and satellite viewers wouldn't be affected, since I know my father hasn't gotten any kind of converter box for his set. I was hoping that the Fox News broadcasts would magically transform into static tomorrow, but alas… it seems my little fantasy will not come to fruition.
I've always had this dream that someday something would happen to television and make it suddenly not work anymore on a mass scale. I would love to see the dazed and confused masses stagger out of their living rooms, blinking in the sunlight, to actually interact with reality and each other sans televised mediation. However, this doesn't seem to be my chance for that. Drats. Perhaps I will actually have to get together a guerrilla band of door to door monkeys to forcibly break into people's homes, grab their sets, and run away with them. (Piling them onto the Monkeytruck, of course.) Until then, I'll just keep my ear plugs nearby, shoving them into my ears so as to avoid whatever televised tripe passes for "news" on the shows my father watches.
I've always had this dream that someday something would happen to television and make it suddenly not work anymore on a mass scale. I would love to see the dazed and confused masses stagger out of their living rooms, blinking in the sunlight, to actually interact with reality and each other sans televised mediation. However, this doesn't seem to be my chance for that. Drats. Perhaps I will actually have to get together a guerrilla band of door to door monkeys to forcibly break into people's homes, grab their sets, and run away with them. (Piling them onto the Monkeytruck, of course.) Until then, I'll just keep my ear plugs nearby, shoving them into my ears so as to avoid whatever televised tripe passes for "news" on the shows my father watches.