{"id":237,"date":"2000-09-11T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2000-09-11T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/11\/opiated\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:15:15","slug":"opiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/11\/opiated\/","title":{"rendered":"Opiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God help me,<\/strong> but I bought a new TV yesterday and invested in an antenna, so now I\u2019m watching TV at home for the first time in over a year. It still sucks as much as ever, but it&#8217;s still as hypnotic. My old TV, inherited from a pal who moved out of Boston on the spur of the moment, has been dying for a while now. The remote started getitng screwy last year and lately there have been some blank pixels appearing and ruining the rest of the picture. When I couldn&#8217;t display a picture from the DVD player sunday morning, I just got up, got dressed, and went out to Circuit City and dealt with the problem like any middle-class American ought to &#8212; I just bought a new one. The new antenna was an added bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Some nice things I have seen since rejoining the ranks of the opiated masses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <i><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060952520\/therumpusroom02\" >Simpsons<\/a><\/i> rerun I hadn&#8217;t seen before, in which Apu must go through with his arranged marriage. The highlight was Homer, dressed as Ganesha, up in a tree getting poked by a stick, and whimpering, &#8220;All will die.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Well, that\u2019s about it, actually. But I can&#8217;t wait for <i><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671042602\/therumpusroom02\" >Buffy<\/a>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000035Z1V\/therumpusroom02\" >Angel<\/a>,<\/i> and a few other treats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God help me, but I bought a new TV yesterday and invested in an antenna, so now I\u2019m watching TV at home for the first time in over a year. It still sucks as much as ever, but it&#8217;s still as hypnotic. My old TV, inherited from a pal who moved out of Boston on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/11\/opiated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opiated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70865,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/70865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}