Monday, April 3, 2006

The greatest invention of all time

Two weeks ago a man dropped by our house and changed my world forever. Now before your mind conjures up some bizarre Brokeback sequel I'll let you know that my excitement was over the cable guy. I finally jumped on the Tivo bandwagon and haven't left the house since. FX ran a Prison Break marathon and now I'm hooked. (I dare you to find a better two hour block of television than Fox's Monday night lineup of Prison Break and 24.) I love the ability to instantly rewind a live program and relive Katharine McPhee's frightened expression as she makes her way down to the bottom three. I haven't missed a single one of Rachael Ray's fifty-two different Food Network programs. I've been able to catch up on movies that I've put off for years (Wall Street, Backbeat, A Knight's Tale). I mean I'm even Tivo'ing things that I normally would channel surf right past (Brendan Fraser hosting a 2001 episode of SNL). There's no better feeling than falling asleep on the couch and not having to worry that you missed yet another side-splitting episode of The George Lopez Show.

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