too much tv

Most people smoke a lot of weed or take horse tranquilizers to withstand the amounts of tv I've been watching lately.

You'll all be glad to know that I'm really done with Extreme Makevoer. For good. I saw it last week, and they tricked out two perfectly normal looking women. It pissed me off and I didn't cry like I did when they fixed up some people in past shows with double rows of teeth and other things that shouldn't matter, but nevertheless are really troubling flaws or blemishes.

Blind Justice seems kind of lame, and I bet I'll never watch it. I don't know if the blind guy is a cop, a lawyer, or a judge. I think it would be funny if they made him a narcotics agent or something.

I really like the NBC version of The Office, but mostly, I'm really uncomfortable when I watch it. A line like, "I don't really like to touch things" is fine and kind of on-the-sly funny. But for the most part, the characters are so painfully stupid or mean. The character Dwight is even creepier than than the BBC one. In general, I don't like to watch tv or movies with characters who get ickier and ickier. For example, I didn't like that wine drinking movie so much because of all the humiliation the characters went through. I don't know how much more I can take of The Office even though I think it's really good.

Everyone on American Idol sucks except the bigger white guy. But he sucked last night.

I watched local news, entertainment tonight, extra, and or insider edition last night. It's all one big blur of programming if you ask me. So Brad and Angelina are together after all? I wasn't paying close enough attention, but there was some reporting about them being in Africa together. It's too bad I care about that. The Michael Jackson trial is still going on. People are being gunned down on the freeways again. There's a mayoral race in Los Angeles.

Finally, I understand that the NBA play-offs are going on right now. Since the Lakers went out, it's like there's no such thing as basketball in LA. It's the weirdest basketball season I've ever been through in Southern California. It's like a silent spring or something.

Charlie Rose had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving, and Bill Russell on his show on Monday. All three had well phrased ways of describing the NBA, and I was surprised to be so interested in what these athletes had to say. Of course, they're all retired, and it doesn't hurt them to be critical of the business of the game. (Working athletes seem to follow really boring scripts, and if they don't, they're labeled freaks.) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is impressive, and I like the way he moves his shoulders and smiles when he talks. Also, he wrote a book about a battalion of black soldiers in WWII. I would like to talk to him about the sweater/shirt combo he wore on the show. I know Charlie Rose is on PBS, but come on ... .

So there you have it -- tv is good and bad and I need to cut back.