September 27, 2008

I Hate TiVo

I don't really hate TiVo. In fact, it looks pretty nifty and I think I would enjoy having it.

I only say that because Initials and I went over to one of his friend's apartments to watch the debates, and they had TiVo. They also had 7 grad students, running the gamut from psychology to math, economics to political science.

And every two minutes, someone would pause the debates and someone would get into an argument about this word or this fact, and then someone would double check it on their laptop, and then someone found a better website to double check the fact, and then we would talk for another five minutes about the specifics and at which demographic that particular point was aimed.

I mostly just sat in the corner, drinking my whiskey, thinking that we're all voting for Obama anyway. It doesn't really matter which online dictionary that we use to determine the difference between a tactic and a strategy.

We didn't make our way through the debates until 12:15.




On the other hand, this makes my day.
Here lies a most ridiculous raw youth, indulging himself in the literary graces that he once vowed to eschew. Now he just rocks out.