Nice glitch, britta, it helped, I think. I can’t really justify posting these. Conan sounds about right.
My only lame defense is I hate the ubiquity of flat screen TVs in our culture. There is a falafel place near me that used to play Middle Eastern music on a CD and had travel posters of Syria and Lebanon on the walls. Recently they hung a big flat screen from the ceiling and now whenever I go in there it’s news or football with the sound turned up loud. The owners “went native,” which is to say embraced the shittier American values.

(originally submitted as a comment to my bigscreens post but I couldn’t get it past the spam filter)