Saturday, January 08, 2005

After a year's experiment, I'm giving up my cable tv. I like it but not $55/month worth and there are no presidential campaigns to obsess over this year (whew.)

But I really enjoy reading writers who have television as their beats. Dana Stevens in SLATE and, increasingly, Virginia Heffernan in the NYT who sift through the shows, looking for the golden moments.

I'm intrigued by the Flavor Flav/Bridgette Nielsen pairing but have no interest in watching the show. Thankfully, Heffernan is professionally obligated and writes in today's NYT about a song that appears in "Strange Love" the show that documents the pair:

Girl from Denmark, snowy white

Boy from projects, black as night

He's a jester; she's a fox

She likes smoking; he likes clocks

That's the flavor, that's the flavor of love