{"id":257,"date":"2006-03-02T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:37:09","slug":"oscar-night-and-me-without-a-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/oscar-night-and-me-without-a-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar night and me without a TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are only a few occassions in which I rue not having a television.\u00a0When PBS<\/a> comes out with a new art history series (Art:21<\/a> specifically – go ahead, call me a geek), the Olympics<\/a> and the Oscars<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I made a very conscious decision when I moved into my first apartment after high school\u00a0– I did not want a television in my home.\u00a0 I always felt like having it\u00a0as the center of your living space was unhealthy and made for lack of social interaction – and I hated being force fed advertising every time I wanted to watch\u00a0a show.\u00a0 That said, I am sitting on my hands\u00a0hating the fact\u00a0that\u00a0I don’t have one and waiting for someone to invite me to an Oscar party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If I did have a TV, I’d do it Tivo<\/a> style.\u00a0 This article<\/a> from NPR<\/a> talks about the wonders of Tivo and how it can erase all the things I hate about television programming\u00a0(namely the icky commercials).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, three hours is a lot of time to commit already, especially as some of us have kids, so extending the evening by an hour to fit in a meal wouldn’t work. But we got TiVo not long ago, and discovered the joy of tuning in to programs late, so that we can fast-forward past commercials, and that seems pretty much the ideal way to watch the Oscars. No commercials, no long walks down the aisle, no speeches about the ballot-counters. Just the jokes and the winners… and the obit-reel, which is always a heart-tugger. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like heaven.\u00a0 If I ever to succumb to the allure of a TV, which it close at hand, I think I will have to go the way of Tivo and finally join my peers in the age of 21st Century technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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