Biopics

   I recently watched a YouTube video about how biopics are often inaccurate. For instance, John Nash had auditory not visual hallucinations. Morzart and Salieri were good friends, not enemies.                                     I don't think I want to watch any more biopics. I don't want to find out that Sherlock Holmes wasn't the world's greatest detective or James Kirk won't captain the Enterprise. It would break my heart.

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Impact

I recently heard a public service announcement that featured a walker talking to drivers. It is an effort to make people be better drivers. She says something like, "I will watch out for you and you watch for me. When you see me stop. If we work together, imagine the impact we will have. Hum. I thought the idea was to avoid an impact.

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Television

When I was a kid there were only three channels, four if you count PBS. There was CBS, NBC, and ABC. We didn't get CBS so we only had two channels, three if you count PBS. At midnight, after playing the Star Spangled Banner, the networks went off the air and didn't return until morning. There was nothing to watch so you went to bed. You watched your t. v. shows when they were scheduled and if you missed an episode you had to hope that one would appear in the reruns. Then came cable and we had more choices, but still you had to watch when they wanted you to. Now we have DVR, DVDs, Hulu, Netflix, You Tube, On Demand and we hold the power to watch when we want. All I can think is, there isn't enough time. We can watch whole seasons of past shows and binge whole seasons of new shows.  Add to that movies and specials and there are the best of and worst of list and cat videos and your friends with their own You Tube channel. Let me take a breathe. I am not going to criticize anyone for watching so much since I do it myself. I want to take time to, as the saying goes, smell the roses. Thank God iPads are portable.

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