Cohousing-L Mailing List: TV

[Mary Ellen Wessels (verizon.mew]

There has been a lot of interesting things said about TV.  I just 
wanted to add what might be a slightly different perspective. (well - 
if not I apologize)  I haven't had a TV in my home for several years 
now.  I admit, I've debated it seriously now that I am a mom of two 
young children but so far we still make do with videos. :-)  Anyway -
 the reason is partly because I *do* think that it could be easy to 
slide into addictive behavior (or perhaps apathetic behavior is more 
accurate) if it was in my home.  It's part of our "who has the time!?" 
motto.  There is so much else to do!  But... I've been long looking 
forward to gathering in the commonhouse around the big screen TV 
(or bigger than our 17 incher anyway) with a big group of like 
minded people and watching British Comedy, or some History 
documentary, or Babylon 5, old Star Trek... and dissecting the plot 
holes, analyzing the characters, deconstructing the moral 
dilemmas, explaining away the scientific technobabble nonsense... 
you get the idea.  This is a favroite comfortable, relaxing, fun 
experience with friends that can be just the right kind of shared 
activity when you have had a hard week sometimes.  Besides, I've 
been part of some really awesome discussions that stemmed from 
watching even really BAD B movies (a secret weakness of mine) 
(oops - guess not so secret now!) ;-)

Ok - back to other topics!
mew
MaryEllen Wessels / Hopeful Romantics
mew [at] mewsic.com   http://www.mewsic.com
(978) 345-6110
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