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I asked a married friend of mine today, to suggest a topic for a Craigslist ad. She told me that she had never actually figured out how to date, and that all she wanted to do was go to movies and watch TV.
I realized that, to no small degree, that's true for me as well. While the point of posting a personals ad on Craigslist is, undoubtedly, to get a date, what I actually want is the part of the relationship that exists after the point when you "go on dates." I want to hang out and watch TV. So, logically, it would be nice if we wanted to watch the same TV.
To clarify, I'm not talking about the point in a relationship when no one has anything to say, and you sit in the same room, staring at a television and not speaking to each other. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that two people can avoid that point for a lifetime, though I realize that's more of a gamble than I can reasonably expect to make casting blindly into the ether of Craigslist; I'm just saying, I'd like to spend some quality time on the couch.
I have a soft spot for infomercials. In particular any product that cooks or otherwise prepares food is reliably entertaining, in an unobtrusive way that doesn't interfere with conversation. Programs about knives that cut through steel cans, or convection ovens that cook in half the time of the old way are always pleasant. That peculiar machine that cooks apparently any imaginable foodstuff into a brown semi-circular lump has always been fascinating to me.
I also enjoy re-runs of familiar sitcoms, or basically any project Aaron Sorkin was ever involved in. I went to college on the premise that I might some day be paid to write, so I have an affinity for scripted television that seems increasingly archaic and quaint in today's television landscape.
I'm not saying I won't watch any reality TV. I don't want to watch people cry or yell at each other, but the shows that are ostensibly season-long game shows are pretty palatable. The most recent season of Top Chef was good, notwithstanding the disappointingly small part Anthony Bourdain had in the episode in which he was a guest judge.
I'm Dan. I'm probably free next Friday. There's nothing on anyway.
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