For the next while, I'm going to devote my time to getting back into the way life was intended to be. This transitory period will be your closest friend, if you're in my position, and have had to kick television. I'll discuss the pains of a world without normal broadcasts of public television. Maybe you're out there reading this, thinking to yourself, I didn't take the time to apply for coupons to purchase a DTV converter box. Then again, maybe you're somebody who hasn't turned on their television in months. Someone who has had it unplugged for months with photographs of dead presidents with bullets in their foreheads taped to the screen. Someone who decided to thoroughly kick television. Someone with anarchistic traits and a crappy haircut.
I've lived in a world with television my entire life. Most of what I know is based upon the fact that I grew up in front of a television; that a television taught me more about myself than anything parental guidance might have. I never thought I'd have this much in common with all of the amish/mormon/jehovah witness population, but alas, we have a common thread. I'm going to ride it out. I would like to encourage all of you readers out there to follow along through the upcoming days--weeks--however long it takes. Maybe find an old hunting knife and start to widdle a piece of wood into a chair that you can give to your father for father's day. I've never been happier. Like wild animals housed in cages, we're finally set free.
