… and Alton Brown, and Robert Osborne. At least for the time being.
As a cost-saving measure, I have dropped back for the time being to … budget cable. Budget cable stops at channel 22 or so; it’s mostly the over-the-air channels, religious channels, both C-SPANs and WGN. I will, at least for a while, be giving up “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Good Eats,” and everything on Turner Classic Movies.
I did this a few years ago; in fact, I had the main character in my novel do it last November. It’s kind of depressing; I was watching “The Daily Show” tonight for the last time for a while. To add insult to injury, there’s a service charge for changing your service, so I won’t really see any benefit from this until the second month of doing without.
Then again, I obviously watch too much TV, so maybe this will be good for me. Maybe I’ll be more likely to read a good book, or fire up a CD, or turn on “Car Talk” or “Whad’ya Know.”
Maybe I’ll even get back to work rewriting the novel.
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The novel! I need to go back to finishing it. I stopped when you mentioned rewriting but I’m curious now as to how different a rewriting would be from the original.
The novel! I need to go back to finishing it. I stopped when you mentioned rewriting but I'm curious now as to how different a rewriting would be from the original.
Interesting — I was just thinking yesterday how we met, and wondered if you were secretly working on the novel. I read so little of it before it did a masterful disappearing act from cyberspace.
I gave up all cable TV on Jan. 30, 2001, as a temporary austerity move. It’s still missing from my mothly bills, as the price rises to astronomic heights. A broadband connection means much more to me. Broadcast channels are sufficient, though I miss the SciFi channel still. It’s often difficult to get that spooky, weird, space fix from the mainline.
Interesting — I was just thinking yesterday how we met, and wondered if you were secretly working on the novel. I read so little of it before it did a masterful disappearing act from cyberspace.
I gave up all cable TV on Jan. 30, 2001, as a temporary austerity move. It's still missing from my mothly bills, as the price rises to astronomic heights. A broadband connection means much more to me. Broadcast channels are sufficient, though I miss the SciFi channel still. It's often difficult to get that spooky, weird, space fix from the mainline.
I think the hardest one for me to give up would be Turner Classic Movies…
I think the hardest one for me to give up would be Turner Classic Movies…