too much reality in our television

My son was reporting on a show he had just watched on TV: boy: “This guy was on an airplane and he got sick!” mom: “Sounds like somebody has been watching ‘Discovery Health’ again.” boy: “An lots of people got sick!! It was really bad.” me: “What were they eating?” boy: “it was fish.” (Luckily, […]

While I’m away…

NASA sets next Discovery launch for July 1 Update That’s pretty cool, we’ll be somewhere on the Gulf Coast. Any idea how far away you can see a daytime launch?

What’s with the custom car shows?

Wow, what’s with all the shows where some celebrity drops an insane amount of cash to have a TV stuck in his SUV? MTV has one. Discovery has some. The Learning Channel, too. Last night I watched “rides” which had one of the Beverly Hills guys (I think) as narrator/host. They showed them modify a […]