No Analogue/No Oprah/No Life
by Pasadena Adjacent
“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having personal relationships”
Dearest Andy,
The news is grim. My heart is heavy. I’ve got my digital conversion boxes at the ready and I can’t figure out how to connect them to my televisions. Do I loose access to my DVD player? don’t like that. Do my rabbit ears become e-waste? future collectables? crack pipes? Despite the warnings and deadline extensions; I’ve put it off (and I’d do it again if they offered another extension).
Tell me Andy, what would you and Truman have made of e-mail? I think you both might of embrassed the concept of personal relationships lived on-line. I know that Truman would have seen it as an “answered prayer” an opportunity to sling the hash at others. Oh the joy of carbon copy misunderstandings! No need to fear the flying fists of Norman; just don’t answer your e-mail, let the answering machine pick up the phone. Hide behind your front door. Another’s pulse, a human’s voice, eyes that blink? all avoidable. Why so contemplative you might wonder? Today’s my 23 anniversery, I’m staring down the barrel of the big one, Truman dropped my name into a snake pit not of my choosing, Norman’s kicking down my door via my e-mail box and I’ve just lost my analogue connection to Oprah….Sigh
I wonder what will happen to the Mount Wilson Towers? I like them. Their twinkly lights are my North Star.
Pasadena Adjacent
Life lived “bravely”on the edge of mediocrity
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Birth Announcement brought to you via the elder QueenV
Mediocre? Have I been promoted? As Samuel Goldwyn said, “It’s more than magnificent, it’s mediocre!”
Pasadena Adjacent would like it clarified that Altadena Hiker is not nor ever was mediocre. Pasadena Adjacent speaks for herself (along with services provided by legal council)
Pasadena Adjacent is currently medicated and resting peacefully. Thus far she has suffered the loss of PBS along with NBC, CBS, ABC and channel 9. She will try to remain brave.
We’d like to ask that you please respect her privacy along with that of her family at this very difficult time.
Further Legal Clarification
Dearest Andy: Andy Warhol
Truman: Truman Capote (why?)
Norman: Norman Mailer
Good luck. Be brave. And remember–there’s hulu.
I love the photo of those glorious old TV sets. Remember when TVs were a piece of expensive furniture that took front and center in the living room? Then they became embarrassements, tucked into an armoire in a family room. Now we’ve come full circle and they’re flat, expensive and taking center stage above the mantle. (Except in my house, where they’re still embarrassed and hiding in an armoire in the family room.)
Oh, Yes! Listen to Jean. Go Hulu. And you are nowhere near mediocre.
I much prefer relationships in person. Everything else (phone, e-mail, etc.) is just a means to an end.
There are Transformers in PA land????
Don’t attempt to adjust or change your channel. There is nothing wrong with your television. We are in control of your television set.
I can see why you’d like those towers. As your North Star.
I forgot to say:
1-Are you really getting bear cubs?
2-Depending on the age and set-up of your TV you may have to visit Radio Shack for more parts.
3-To avoid visit to Radio Shack you may want to keep your video/dvd player(s) on a separate TV.
4-You’ll love the extra channels you’ll be seeing, especially on PBS
5-Bear cubs? Really?
6-Where did photo of bear cubs go?
Putting out the word (Thanks Susan)
All are cordially invited to an opening reception (4-6 p.m.) of a street beautification project just completed by The Eagle Rock Association, in collaboration with the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, the Arroyo Arts Collective and the City of LA. The mosaics are going on these waste stations (I made that up)
red velvet cupcakes from Aunte Em
I am currently looking into Hula. Wake Up, my para legal should have informed me of this. Pink slip forthcoming.
PJ: I will forward your information onto my technical team. We are hoping for this issue to be resolved in the near future.
Pasadena Adjacent, suffering from exhaustion misunderstood Queen V’s announcement and thought the four red Lemurs were a gift for her upcoming birthday. They have been rerouted and will make their home at the San Diego Zoo.
The Wilson towers will not disappear. Digital broadcast, in fact, requires much taller towers than conventional, analog broadcast. The expense of building towers of 1000 feet in height drove a few smaller TV stations off the air. The old analog spectrum has now been auctioned off and safely purchased by AT&T and Verizon, tucked away in their portfolios so as to prevent any entry by new wireless telephone companies.
Have a nice day.
I’d like to return to the fact that you usurped my hard-won title. And I don’t know how you did that, because Mediocre is my middle name. (Well, actually it’s Ursula.)
I love Mt. Wilson. I just found out the whole universe expanded from there.
Truman would be twittering.
Truman was a twit
I lived most of my adult life with out the boob tube and frankly I believed I missed nothing. No brain cells were harmed during this extended period of time.
Then some idiot invented the computer and the tube crept up behind me and grabbed me. (Sneaky inventors.) The upside of the computers boob tube is that it’s now a flat screen, and at least I can do more the stare. I suppose you might even say it’s a useful and interactive appliance. The downside is that it still sucks time.
Personally I’d be just as happy with a pencil and some simple tools. Is there really a difference? It’s just all a small step in the advancement of human invention, not much more advanced then the cave paintings in places like Lascaux. Yup, you favorite place France.
This is one post I have no sympathy for, muster up some courage, keep your computer and trash the TV; you will lose nothing.
Damn my comment is poorly written and needs editing… but you get the point.
Sorry PA, still no sympathy on the tube.
AH: you worry me…My favorite professor quote “forget genius, good enough is good enough”. I graduated from Cal State Los Angeles…(Sybil Brand Institute Adjacent). Some of those from more favored institutions are taught to aim high, we of the lessor ivy Institutions are taught to shoot for the middle.
Jean: I am ill informed. My first introduction to Hula. All is not lost
Susan: Great observation. I have a TV in nearly every room and have had guest’ attempt to shame me over this fact. They’re still there but they don’t work. The TV’s, not the guest
Margaret: you are my new best friend
WCBG: Thank you for reminding of us of the deeper meaning to this post. Unanswered e-mails to a friendly “get together” is a form of passive aggression. Unanswered e-mails because you don’t wish your words to be cut and pasted into a context that calls you a “right wing racist hate monger” is self preservation.
PJ: this is the land of transformation. All of my TV’s may be in need of a Radio Shack makeover. (lemurs)
Anon: How do you people find me? Without outing you I see your from USC. Thanks for the information and I did have a nice day. Hope you did too
Linda Dove: One might say our understanding of it did. You might wish to make your way up to the top of Mount Wilson through my other better blog self (each page is a story made of seven posts dealing with local history)
http://www.palmaxis.com/
Vanda: Don’t tell Gore but I like Truman even though he’s the devil
Mid-Town-G: Would it shock you if I told you I’m not surprised by your lack of empathy? With extra time on my hands I could learn another language; maybe French…When was the last time I found two yolks in one egg? Now that I no longer have television I ask myself these questions. I’m suffering deep thoughts.
maybe if you watched more TV you wouldn’t suffer typos
I’ve seen this. And I think Truman is quite compassionate. He must have been sober.
I agree. It’s like sitting in on a dinner party where all the wrong guests have been seated next to one another. It makes me twitter
I am feasting on worms. Thanks!
PA, I see you speak Typonese too, and I doubt that TV would help my typos.
I must admit I do watch some TV now and then. I timed a prime time program recently just to see how much crap I was watching. Did you know that for every hour of TV you watch 20 min. of that hour is devoted to commercials, 40 min. are the program you choose. If the program I just watched has any merit I’ve still wasted 20 minutes. It adds up fast.