Rachel Maddow gives in and buys a TV

This post is hilarious:) The pictures on the TV screens are killing me...

Look at Rachel. She's so sucked in to each show, isn't she. I can sense the tension in her body language watching that truck half submerged in icy water. 

I think she bought the TV to watch herself. There are so few lesbians on TV she must support the cause. 

Okay, this might be a liiiiittle off topic, but, um...where did Rachel get that t-shirt? It's kind of awesome.

"Susan and I ordered take-out Chinese and I made cocktails and then somehow it just happened."

She sounds like she's trying to explain to her kid how little Rachel Maddow Jr. came to be.  "Bought a TV" is totally a euphemism for "made a baby."  Except not because, y'know, they're both ladies.

watching every season of Grey's Anatomy and blogging about how unfair the firing of Brooke Smiff was. And then falling kinda in love with Arizona, although not completely in love just yet because they're still more awkward than hot. But I digress.

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I dangled my participle in her fragment and stretched it into a run-on.

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 This is cool. I wonder what kind of tv they bought. It only cost 400 dollars so it can't be a big tv.

Well it is confirmed:

Alcohol is the gateway drug that leads to TV watching!

pjrcdn -- that is truly clever, and likely not far off, that alcohol is the gateway drug that leads to tv watching.

I have for months hoped it would not happen -- that RM would never cave in. Once she knows the DEPTHS of mediocrity that passes for journalism on the other shows, I fear that even SHE, as amazing as she is, might begin to falter a bit. Kind of like how you work really hard on a paper in 7th grade, and then when you see what the other kids hand in, you're like, oh. ok. And you subsequently only spend 5 minutes during break writing your next papers.

And GOD help her if she happens upon that CRACK known as Otalia. Can you imagine?

___________________________________________________________________________-- Only connect.  ~ EM Forster, Howards End

Oh, wait...no...I read that wrong. 

Some people drunk dial, some people drunk text; Rachel Maddow drunk-Amazons.

Ha.  

Rumor has it that in addition to the TV, Rachel and Susan have purchased a cable package so they can watch all the Red Sox (ugh) games. 

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If Rachel Maddow has a TV there is no excuse for her not watching Otalia. Otalia-palooza is sweeping the globe, and Rachel's never one to miss a beat! Maybe she can ridicule CBS whilst she's at it.

Ah...I heart Rachel Maddow. I think I will hear Rachel Maddow with a TV even more. 

And there she was... wearing a purple shirt. :)

I'm guessing she's watching Otalia on Guiding Light! 

I heard Rachel's interview with a local radio station in San Fran when she was in CA at the end of March, and not only do they have cable, they have a cable modem and high-speed internet access. As of that interview, Rachel had everything set up but had not turned the TV on yet out of fear of addiction. She had tried out the high-speed internet.

I think they will find that over the past 20 years, TV today may have lots more channels, but less to actually watch. They'll find a couple of things they like and maybe record (most of our cable boxes here come with DVR). I can see Rachel loving the History and Discovery Channels (and their relatives on digital). But I think it'll be used for Red Sox games and Susan can watch Rachel's show live without having to be in-studio.

My biggest bet is since they are both far more into the internet than TV, the high-speed internet connection will be the true love they find in their new tech digs.

I know the thing we missed most when the cable was out was the internet, not TV. We took our laptops and headed for anywhere that had high speed access and cheap food or drinks. My son and I watch very little TV, except Countdown and TRMS. We hardly ever miss them, and we get the podcasts just in case we have to miss them.

If they truly didn't want the TV, they could have cancelled the order the next morning when they found they had actually ordered it. It's probably been something they've thought about and discussed for a long time, and the cocktails were just enough lubrication to make them slide down the path to buying it.

But ya, the line

"Susan and I ordered take-out Chinese and I made cocktails and then somehow it just happened."

sounds more like explaining how that home-made sex video was made, where those compromising pictures came from, or how Rachel or Susan Jr. came along (except neither has a sufficient sperm count to make that happen). Most of us would not use that language to explain why we drunk-ordered a new TV from Amazon.com. I'm not sure we would feel the need to explain why we ordered a TV at all, but we haven't spent 20 years not watching TV either. That's why we love Rachel so much. She's on another plain of consciousness (the true geek one) and it's so funny, disarming and endearing.