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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.01.17

So, I have a TV for the first time in 9 1/2 years. So far, so good .. we don't have an antenna and Ken remains in the dark that there's such a thing as regularly scheduled television. He once saw something playing on a TV in a store and watched for while as I did something. Then he tapped my arm and told me that he wanted the show, not whatever was currently on. Glancing at it, I saw that it was a commercial.

"I know the feeling," I told him. I suspect we've got a third generation commercial-muter on our hands.

But that would involve getting an antenna. One of these months....

rand()m quote

If you are going to tell people the truth, you have to make them laugh, or they'll kill you.

—Oscar Wilde