There’s a solid chance that I watch too much television. Being a child of the 80/90’s who was raised by a mother who was chair-bound and was always watching television, it provides some sort of comfort. I live alone, and the thing is usually on. The more valid and ignorable the content the better. I do t actually watch television. I guess I listen to it as I do other things, usually painting, (artistically). Here are some things I have noticed.

Commercials for pharmaceuticals dominate and nearly all of them are banana-pants. The side-effects rattled off at the end of the spots are almost always more objectionable than the conditions the drugs are offered to treat. Things like: death, severe discomfort, permanent unwanted muscle movement, compulsive gambling, severe anxiety, major depressive episodes, rage, migraines, and on and on and on. You get it. What I wonder is how often does a side-effect need to present itself before Big Pharma is required to warn consumers? 🤔
Programming on Live Television is 33% advertisements.
Reality Television is ridiculous
*I stopped here to go to sleep on May 15, 2023. I’ve adjusted the title to reflect that I am finishing it on May 18,2023*
The rugged individuality and gruff male voice-over during truck commercials is funny to me. The general chosen aesthetic for many general content categories various advertisements is interesting. It’s always an odd meta-moment when something being advertised is something you use. I look down at what I’m wearing and how I feel, and have an interesting control to compare what I should be feeling or be wearing and find the parallels worth 15-20 seconds of thought.
I need to pause again because I am in bed and my cat, Jasper, is very keen on my brushing him before I fall asleep. Somehow we’ve come to this arrangement where I brush him for a few minutes when I crawl u der my covers, poised in the delicious edge of sleep. I used to sort of hate sleeping. It felt like a waste of time. However, both my body and mind need the restorative time a 6+ hour stretch of sleep offers. It’s free, and it’s grown on me.
Right though. The cat, expectations, and sleep. I have plenty of things to say about television.