Chuck Zumbrun

Tales from Skunk Hill

A Vast Wasteland

We have what Debbie and I call at our house ‘Amish TV.’ That is, free broadcast TV. So when I get a night in a hotel with cable TV I get dizzily excited by all the options. Tonight with all the events over at the National No-Till Conference I started channel surfing through all the options. And they were:

  1. Hockey (Are we in Canada?)
  2. People turning a mattress over (MTV. Not accompanied by music. I guess MTV has nothing to with music these days.)
  3. Commercial
  4. Talking Head (Mitt Romney is rich, can you imagine?)
  5. Wipeout
  6. I Love Raymond rerun
  7. Kevin Hart (comedy?)
  8. B&W movie about Napoleon (Really)
  9. George Lopez rerun
  10. A Spanish language channel (grouped next George Lopez reruns, I get it)
  11. A Rock movie (Rock the ‘actor’, not the music)
  12. Locked inside an abandoned beach house (I have no idea why)
  13. A ‘House’ marathon (Hugh Laurie, not Norm Abrams)
  14. King of the Hill (the only thing I’d watch so far)
  15. Commercial
  16. Pretty in Pink (Molly Ringwald, so cute)
  17. Commercial
  18. Little House on the Prairie reruns
  19. Commercial
  20. BET (I have no idea what this was showing)
  21. Commercial
  22. Bizarre game show
  23. I have no idea what this was, other than I couldn’t press the channel button quick enough. Disney XD.
  24. Weather
  25. Commercial
  26. Made for TV movie
  27. Commercial
  28. Say Yes to the Dress (A Bridezilla reality show?)
  29. Cuba Gooding on Obama. (An MLK day special is the only explanation I can offer for this)
  30. Flying Wild Alaska
  31. America’s Most Wanted (the show even Fox didn’t want)
  32. Commercial
  33. Commercial
  34. Commercial
  35. Ax Men (loggers working hard)
  36. Commercial
  37. Golf (Live, they said. Bonus!)
  38. Commercial
  39. Talking heads yelling at one another
  40. Commercial
  41. Made for TV movie
  42. House of Payne (a holy roller series?)
  43. Fox ‘News’
  44. Cialis commercial. (seek immediate medical attention if watching this commercial for more than 4 hours.)

People pay money for this?

Fortunately I brought plenty of books with me. (On paper, not a Kindle, so quaint.)

5 responses to “A Vast Wasteland”

  1. anne Avatar
    anne

    ah but we have to subscribe to all of that to get the one channel we do watch Tennis 24/7. I think it should be priced 1-5 channels x dollars, 6-25 channels XX dollars, etc.

  2. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    To be honest I’d probably glue myself to the HGTV and Style channels, but I suppose those would get old too.

  3. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    Doood – you should have watched “Say Yes to the Dress.” It’s the bomb!!

  4. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    44 was probably Bloomberg TV

  5. Brian Timmons Avatar
    Brian Timmons

    You were at the National No-Till Conference, and that line-up was boring? Interesting! 😉

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