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jfbNext stuff-decumulation project: Videotapes.
I don't have many--all the commercial ones I already gave away to you guys or to Goodwill. What remains is stuff I made and stuff I taped.
The real target here isn't the dozen T-120s I have left, though. It's the TV.
The plan was always to get rid of it when I move. It's becoming increasingly unclear when that will be, and I'm thinking maybe now's the time to lose the TV anyway.
This is what I'm watching this summer: Stella, out of curiosity; reruns of South Park and The Simpsons, because I haven't gotten around to unprogramming the VCR; whatever's on after The Simpsons, just in case Arrested Development miraculously reappears; and The Daily Show. Of those, the last is the only one I'll miss, and really, I haven't been laughing that much at it lately anyway.
And whatever's on when I feel the need to not think for a while. That presents a deeper problem, but for now I'm not going to confront it.
So I can give those up, but before I eliminate the TV, I need to make sure there's nothing worth keeping on those VHS tapes. Today while I debug JavaScript layout bugs, my background music is a snowy tape from my pre-cable days in Boston of the 1995 Newport Jazz Festival. Some of it's pretty good. I don't need to hang onto it.
I don't have many--all the commercial ones I already gave away to you guys or to Goodwill. What remains is stuff I made and stuff I taped.
The real target here isn't the dozen T-120s I have left, though. It's the TV.
The plan was always to get rid of it when I move. It's becoming increasingly unclear when that will be, and I'm thinking maybe now's the time to lose the TV anyway.
This is what I'm watching this summer: Stella, out of curiosity; reruns of South Park and The Simpsons, because I haven't gotten around to unprogramming the VCR; whatever's on after The Simpsons, just in case Arrested Development miraculously reappears; and The Daily Show. Of those, the last is the only one I'll miss, and really, I haven't been laughing that much at it lately anyway.
And whatever's on when I feel the need to not think for a while. That presents a deeper problem, but for now I'm not going to confront it.
So I can give those up, but before I eliminate the TV, I need to make sure there's nothing worth keeping on those VHS tapes. Today while I debug JavaScript layout bugs, my background music is a snowy tape from my pre-cable days in Boston of the 1995 Newport Jazz Festival. Some of it's pretty good. I don't need to hang onto it.
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:07 pm (UTC)Apparently there are episodes of Powerpuff Girls I've missed, too, so now I'm a sad monkey.
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:12 pm (UTC)One of the tapes remaining on my shelf is labeled "Powerpuff!" But I might just skip it.
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:29 pm (UTC)Poor Dadaism. Never truly penguin in any era. Although, I suppose that's how it should be. We've seen the dangers of irony becoming the standard mode of communication.
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Date: 2005-07-14 09:59 pm (UTC)But I like Dana Stevens's use of "meta-laughter" better.