Here's my old man yells at a cloud rant:
Once there was a time when the "History" Channel showed actual historical shows at all hours of the day, except for infomercial time. And lo! There once was a day when the Discovery Channel was chock a block with nature/science/history shows, rather than "NORTH COUNTRY JUSTICE". The SciFi Channel showed science fiction shows, of all things. Today, there's wrestling. The Learning Channel (TLC) showed awesome shows like "Connections" and other educational programming. Now it's all weird medical conditions and trashy people doing trashy things.
And yes, the MTV showed music videos.
Here's the "History" Channel lineup for this Friday night:
7 PM Pawn Stars
8 Pawn Stars
9 American Pickers
10 American Pickers
11 American Pickers
My point? Everything's going to LCD. For good or ill I leave to your judgement.
PS: I've been using """ marks in the sarcastic sense. ktxb
6 comments:
American Pickers, does that have to do with Banjo players? Earl Scruggs did just die a few months ago.
I wish. No, it's about people who go to flea markets or antique shops or people's garages. Shopping. History!
Love that photo! And, yes it's always aliens.
It's really an insult to the accomplishments of people in the past - who were just like you and me - to explain everything with "Aliens". Like man is not Godlike enough to move the world in pursuit of some petty goal? IE - a tomb.
I was watching an interview with Stephen Colbert (out of character) and Neil Degrasse Tyson at some college earlier today on YouTube in which NDT was saying that peoples lack of scientific understanding made some ideas and technology seem like magic or in this case Aliens did it.
I think it's partly a religious impulse. 200 years ago, the same folks would have said "Angels did it".
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