Good Old Fashioned Mind-Numbing Mass Cultural Radiation Poisoning

Friday 12/1/06
Grey's Anatomy Season 2 DVD approximately 2 hours
Total Viewing Time: 2 hours

Saturday 12/2/06
Grey's Anatomy Season 2 DVD 10:42 PM to 12:15 AM
Grey's Anatomy Season 2 DVD 12:44 AM to 1:30 AM
Total Viewing Time 2 hours 19 minutes

It may be true that going out of one's way to watch something in the hope that it will somehow enlighten or broaden or even fulfill some particular emotional need can qualify an act of watching the screen as something other than passively receiving the rays of big media in order to satisfy an addiction. But, I have to be honest with myself. The DVDs just showed up in my apartment. My crazy girlfriend (who prefers to be known in these messages only as such) wanted to watch them and put them on. I slavishly responded to the sound of the machine and sat on the couch and watched hours of episodes (which for the most part I had seen) of a show that I think is really catchy but not certainly not amazing. I thought about reading a book or something, but when I hear TV, my brain focuses in on it. No matter how hard I try to focus on that great novel or even try to sleep, I can only follow the plot of whatver is being broadcast in the next room. So, my time with the sexy doctor's and their breezy grief porn is not above or even different than regular old TV watching. As much as I'd like ti kid myself, my time on the couch crying hysterically at the death of some train crash victim was nothing more than good old fashioned mind-numbing mass cultural radiation poisoning.