Did I Escape?

A triad of very important events this year have affected my media intake:

1. I started listening exclusively to NPR in the car (except on the weekends, when their specialty shows tend to aim for an older and, consequently, more boring crowd. This is no criticism of the elderly, however, because I still prefer to listen to A Prairie Home Companion over the hip, young waves of KISS FM and the like. There is a certain comfort in listening to shows that people who listened to FDR's fireside chats listen to.)

2. I don't really watch television. ESPN has highlights on the internet, The Daily Show posts its entire show, scrambled television doesn't count, and I work at night, so there's no real time that I would. This is not to say that I don't watch shows, as my last post surely demonstrates. It's more to say that I don't watch shows in their traditional, time-slotty manner at the moment.

3. I adopted a child who's allergic to media.

Results of Above Circumstances: I am avoiding advertising at a record level! NPR is 99% ad-free. Internet advertising that isn't a pop-up can pretty much be ignored. And advertising that is a pop-up only makes me loathe that company, which is kind of fun being a semi-socialist.

Which brings me back to the comfort that I feel when thinking about old people listening to FDR. My current media habits really are so much more comfortable than watching normal TV (as my friends with DVRs can attest to), listening to normal radio, and looking at normal porn.

Not that monkey porn isn't normal to monkeys.

Extra (because I want this post to officially end at monkey porn): I might as well briefly discuss the IPod video thing. A revolution? Perhaps. But weren't laptops and wireless internet already headed towards this kind of portability, if not even moreso? Whatever. I'm really just being a bastard to Apple because I'm sick of its coolness. Can't someone else be cool for a bit?