OnBackground

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Monday, May 16, 2005

TeeVee Will Get You

Thanks to Agitprop for sharing commentary on, and this Ray Bradbury quote about, television as a soulsucking beast:
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.