International TV Turnoff week is April 21st – 27th. If you watch TV, Don’t. http://adbusters.org/campaigns/tvturnoff/

We’ve actually had a Kill Your Television sticker on our car for a few years now. Also a couple years ago, we made a production about destroying our perfectly working television (couldn’t let it rot someone else’s brain, could we?). Now, we of course aren’t perfect – a TV tuner card in one of the computers means we can still watch farmer vision – albeit snowy – if the desire comes up. We didn’t watch it for the longest time, and the past few months we’ve been watching the news & crime shows (mmm… law and order) after supper. The way we have our loft setup now, though, there’s no TV even if we wanted it without destroying the office, disconnecting the server, and taking my computer out to the other room. Not likely.

DVD players in both our laptops also allow movies if we rent them, although we usually only rent every couple of months at the most.

Kudos to my Mom though – she’s given up TV for lent. She’s cheating by still *taping* shows so that she’ll have something to watch in a few weeks when she decides to turn it back on, but I’m happy she’s doing it nevertheless She’s even talking about painting later today – something she likely would never do when she has the evil box to fall back on normally.

Anyways… the main message is, if you’re a TV watching person, especially if you have kids, look at reducing the amount of time you spend in front of the thing! Get outside, Read a Book, MAKE ART!

I’m off to read the latest verdicts at the Alberta Courts website… not quite Law and Order, but it gives me my fix

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