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albadgerGood morning! A good one as Mom is finally getting discharged from the hospital. We're all working hard to make sure everything's just right for her return. Except me, I'm blogging.
Super Happy Fun Time breakfast, too; I was already chowing down on my oatmeal & banana when Dad came in with his breakfast and turned on the TV. A red-hot super-sharp spear of screechy metallic sound jabbed itself into my left ear and out my right, dripping blood and brains onto the aqua-teal carpet.
And it wasn't Fox News.
It was a Science channel, actually, showing something about overweight men white-water-rafting on the canals of Wiltshire. The banshee noise came from the female announcer, the same jagged nasal assault I've come to associate with the Hitler Harpies in Mr. Murdoch's stable. Turns out that these poorly trained female speakers are everywhere on cable TV. I can't think this is accidental, what with all the schools out there that can teach women (and men) how to speak properly for broadcast. Have the experts determined that the painful voices command more attention?
And, lastly, a word about "educational" channels on cable TV. Last night, the History Channel had a two-hour piece about "Gates of Hell," mostly footage of volcanoes tarted up with Satan-believing fundamentalist talking heads and close-ups of Hieronymus Bosch paintings, cheaply Flash-animated. This, apparently, is History. And Science channels are showing overweight men white-water-rafting on the canals of Wiltshire. That part I don't mind much, as they were furry. And wet. But still.
Super Happy Fun Time breakfast, too; I was already chowing down on my oatmeal & banana when Dad came in with his breakfast and turned on the TV. A red-hot super-sharp spear of screechy metallic sound jabbed itself into my left ear and out my right, dripping blood and brains onto the aqua-teal carpet.
And it wasn't Fox News.
It was a Science channel, actually, showing something about overweight men white-water-rafting on the canals of Wiltshire. The banshee noise came from the female announcer, the same jagged nasal assault I've come to associate with the Hitler Harpies in Mr. Murdoch's stable. Turns out that these poorly trained female speakers are everywhere on cable TV. I can't think this is accidental, what with all the schools out there that can teach women (and men) how to speak properly for broadcast. Have the experts determined that the painful voices command more attention?
And, lastly, a word about "educational" channels on cable TV. Last night, the History Channel had a two-hour piece about "Gates of Hell," mostly footage of volcanoes tarted up with Satan-believing fundamentalist talking heads and close-ups of Hieronymus Bosch paintings, cheaply Flash-animated. This, apparently, is History. And Science channels are showing overweight men white-water-rafting on the canals of Wiltshire. That part I don't mind much, as they were furry. And wet. But still.
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Avoiding the obvious MTV and VH1 references...
Date: 2010-09-26 05:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, me, neither.
"Coming up tonight on TLC: Lookit Fatty and Wow, Midgets."
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Date: 2010-09-27 06:58 am (UTC)They actually had shows about ancient man, ancient Rome, Egypt, and the early days of our country. Best shows were on it from 6 am to 1 pm.
Then it started getting all Hitlery, and now, I rarely watch the channel. Same goes for Discovery and Learning channels - they both used to be all about science; now, they are both mostly reality shows.
Science channel used to have fantastic shows about science & space; now? It's all about Junkyard Wars.
:P