I am Karan from Olympia, WA.
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[ Thursday, August 22, 2002 ]
Cable TV
We do not subscribe to any of cable’s premium channels and sometimes I feel like we are in the Sahara Desert of cable land. That is until I talk to someone who only gets Basic Cable, which is only about 13 channels compared to our Extended Basic service which gives us something like 95 channels. (yikes...more American overindulgence). Maybe the more correct analogy is that those with a skeletal roof antenna are really camped on Larissa , Basic 
Cable subscribers are on our own moon, we are sitting aboard the shuttle Columbia and premium subscribers, especially those with digital cable, are riding the tail of the comet, zooming through the universe seeing it all, taking it all in.
We hear a lot about those premium channels. According to the Emmy nominations, the very best of TV are there. Leonard and I have wondered many times about The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, etc. I took the opportunity while my family is abstentia and while I still remained Queen of the TV and Remote Controls, to rent a couple of “Sex and the City” videos.
I’ve read fabulous reviews of this show. I’ve seen the awards flow like water down hill to the writers, the actors and to HBO. I did not marry until I was 28 which made me think that I was in a position to relate to the characters. With high expectations I stuffed the season one video into the VCR and pressed play.
I watched the first episode and I think, well, the writing is pretty good. I watch episode two and I think, well, they are naked now and then and the incident with the dildo and the housekeeper was kind of funny. I start to watch episode three and I stand up and scream....OH MY GOD....is this written by men?
Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are shallow. They live infantile, monumentally stupid lives and lifestyles. They live lives devoid of substance and meaning. Even the HBO website for Sex and the City is like reading Teen Beat magazine.
Never in all of my single or for that matter, married life, have I ever seen women like these four. My friends and I have talked about sex and relationships but these subjects are not the only topic of conversation that we can muster, nor is the tone so crude or disrespectful. I want to make a public statement, take a public stance and declare, these women do not represent most women.
I am embarrassed that the world is watching these women thinking that all American women are like them. I worry that these sex-obsessed issue-deprived bimbos are setting women back to a time when women were better seen, not heard. Why listen to women like this if their highest level of focus is on a pair of over priced Prada Slingbacks?
After I stopped the tape I switched on The Simpsons, which oddly felt more like real life.
Update: Thanks to those who have sent suggestions to me about how to avoid my fuzzy yarn balling dilemma. Good news on that front! I spent about six hours balling the white fuzzy yarn and ended up with only two balls...as opposed to the four balls the skein of blue fuzzy yarn yielded. I figured out how to cast on and I have knitted six rows. I knit with a big stupid grin on my face reveling in the click click click of the needles and I am hauling ass!!!
Today’s Cool Link: Arctic environment melts before our eyes. This Greenpeace site has dramatic pictures of the changes in the Arctic ice. I’m not sure if I agree completely with their conclusions, but the photographs are very dramatic. It’s worth taking the time to follow the links on their page.