Today I...
...used a turntable to play a Pete Seeger record. A record that has not been released by Sony (bastards) in MP3 format.
... said to Gary "Well if it's so easy to build a fence, then why was it so hard for us to find anyone to build this fence twenty years ago?" And we thought, and thought, and realized the fence was built before the Internet. So we could not Google "fence" and our zip code.
...wondered then with Gary how we spent our time before TiVo and the Internet and the guitar and drums. All we could think of was that we watched every baseball game. We lay in bed and ate pizza and chocolate frosting out of the can for dessert and watched the '85 World Series on his black and white TV. And we were not ashamed, because lo, no one had told us about cholesterol. And then years later we saw the Nutrition Labels and we were filled with shame.
...looked back on our past sexual histories and wondered why were not like normal horny kids. Gary (who is even older than I) said "What the hell was I thinking, not having sex in high school? There was no AIDS! It was a free ride. And I missed it." I realized I could have gotten under the AIDS wire as well, I graduated in '80 and remember a PBS show that year on "The Gay Plague" that was sweeping the New York bathhouses. Damn.
I am soooooo old.
What DID we all do before TiVo? You know, in the Before Time, in the Long Long Ago?
I still know people who are TiVo-free. No, I don't get it at all.
Posted by: Catherine | May 22, 2006 at 07:33 PM
I think we watched commercials and actually stood up to change the channel.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 22, 2006 at 07:55 PM