Midnight TV
Now Playing: The Voices in my head
Topic: Mysteries of Life
Was flipping through the channels the other night, past the channel that sells you 150 spiffy looking knifes for $19.95. Past the mostly naked women with phones in their hands imploring you to call their number to talk to actual women in your neighborhood who are desperately anxious to hear from you. Past the ab lounge, the ab cruncher, the thigh blasterino, the pretentious female telling me that the 150 dollar a bottle snake oil they are selling is actually worth 150 dollars and that they sold millions of bottles of it at that price but are now feeling the upwelling of human kindness and willing to sell their bottles of denatured hamster urine for only $29.95 until the government finally takes notice, takes the company to court and fines them out of existence, the Time-Life songs of the sixties. Then there is the other half of the stations being various Bible thumping preachers with varying levels of disdain for the viewer, although it may just seem that way to me since I zap right through them before they get their spiel going. Just those accusing, knowing eyes of guys in Nehru jackets, mature stern female preachers and those ubiquitous waving Bibles given the brief time it takes to press the forward or backward button before they disappear into the next channel full of amazing offers or semi naked females. It's enough to send a person up out of bed and into the kitchen to bake an apple pie. :-)