Liam Sweeny's Blog - Posts Tagged "tv"
This Post Will Be Back (After a quick commercial break...)
My buddy Henry and I have this thing going on a couple of nights. I'm sure some of you have the same thing going. We like shows. The Walking Dead is the biggest one, but we have a couple of others. One last night was the show "Sleepy Hollow." It's basically a supernatural story about...
IF YOU COME IN TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY, WE'LL PUT YOU IN A 120-POINT INSPECTED, QUALITY PRE-OWNED CAR OR SUV. BAD CREDIT? NO CREDIT? NO PROBLEM! JUST COME ON DOWN TO...
... ARE YOU RESTLESS? TIRED? DEPRESSED? WITH HAPPYRIL, YOU CAN SEE UP TO A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR...
What the fuck just happened? A commercial break? In the middle of a blog post?
So anyways, me and Henry used to call each other on the commercial breaks to shoot bull about the show, what we thought would happen next - we do this all the time. But last night, we might as well just have stayed on the phone. I mean, five minutes of show, three minutes of commercial, on and on.
People talk about "Why read when I can watch TV?" That's why! It was pretty odd when my blog post was interrupted by (fake) commercials. Can you imagine a book that stopped after every scene for three paragraphs of ads? Yeah, it sucks that I have to wait for another person to catch up (or vise-versa) before we can shoot the bull, make our predictions, put a nickel or a twenty on our assumptions... but still, we can point at a page number and say "Meet ya' there!" with no interruptions.
I've learned many great things from books. This is what I've learned from commercials:
* I'm fat.
* I'm depressed because the cartoon character of a black storm cloud won't go away.
* I'm hungry
* Those sandwiches are photo-shopped. No fast-food place makes 'em like that.
* I'm too fat to fit into those clothes.
* The best way to rebel against society is to accessorize.
* Certain beers make me popular with total strangers. Some perform true sorcery.
People rag on readers sometimes (in my neck), call us bookworms, but maybe we just don't want something we're really into to being cut mid-stream by three minutes of useless nonsense. You can only cook popcorn and take a leak so many times in an hour.
So the moral of the story is: Find a buddy. Agree to read the books chapter by chapter, and make bets on what happens next.
Yeah. That's the moral.
IF YOU COME IN TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY, WE'LL PUT YOU IN A 120-POINT INSPECTED, QUALITY PRE-OWNED CAR OR SUV. BAD CREDIT? NO CREDIT? NO PROBLEM! JUST COME ON DOWN TO...
... ARE YOU RESTLESS? TIRED? DEPRESSED? WITH HAPPYRIL, YOU CAN SEE UP TO A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN YOUR...
What the fuck just happened? A commercial break? In the middle of a blog post?
So anyways, me and Henry used to call each other on the commercial breaks to shoot bull about the show, what we thought would happen next - we do this all the time. But last night, we might as well just have stayed on the phone. I mean, five minutes of show, three minutes of commercial, on and on.
People talk about "Why read when I can watch TV?" That's why! It was pretty odd when my blog post was interrupted by (fake) commercials. Can you imagine a book that stopped after every scene for three paragraphs of ads? Yeah, it sucks that I have to wait for another person to catch up (or vise-versa) before we can shoot the bull, make our predictions, put a nickel or a twenty on our assumptions... but still, we can point at a page number and say "Meet ya' there!" with no interruptions.
I've learned many great things from books. This is what I've learned from commercials:
* I'm fat.
* I'm depressed because the cartoon character of a black storm cloud won't go away.
* I'm hungry
* Those sandwiches are photo-shopped. No fast-food place makes 'em like that.
* I'm too fat to fit into those clothes.
* The best way to rebel against society is to accessorize.
* Certain beers make me popular with total strangers. Some perform true sorcery.
People rag on readers sometimes (in my neck), call us bookworms, but maybe we just don't want something we're really into to being cut mid-stream by three minutes of useless nonsense. You can only cook popcorn and take a leak so many times in an hour.
So the moral of the story is: Find a buddy. Agree to read the books chapter by chapter, and make bets on what happens next.
Yeah. That's the moral.
