Television vs. TV...........TV vs. Books

Television vs. TV. What's the difference anyway? I wish I could give you some intellectual fancy answer, but guess what....there is no difference!! Ha, you probably already knew that. I just needed a better way to start my post than the norm.

So June 11 was the famous (or infamous if you don't have a new tv like me) switching of the analog to digital formats. Oh wait....I didn't even have a tv that worked before. Or rather Lisi didn't. Her short fat stubby little thing would starting blinking out after being on for a while. Kind of reminding you to blink yourself while you watch tv. Have you ever watched someone watching tv? It's quite entertaining, but also quite sad. Anyway, this blinking out got to be very annoying very fast. So, I basically never watched tv. I haven't really missed it, except for those long days when you come home and don't really want to do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g. I think you know what I'm talking about.

So neither Lisi nor I will be purchasing a new tv in the near future. One of these days we'll head "Back to the Future" but for now it's Back to the Stone Age. Plus, who doesn't like reading a good book?? If you don't, you're missing out.

As Ray Bradbury once said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." And that is essentially what television is doing to us, or rather we are doing to ourselves.......destroying our own culture.