Mrs Blinky
I didn’t watch a lot of the speech last night. I was making dinner before we had to run down to the old apartment to unload our couch on a nice Craigslister. I had the radio on, but then I decided I wanted to turn the TV on to see what Nancy Pelosi was wearing. She looked nice. So I’m watching for a few minutes, waiting for the rice to come to a boil, and then I just can’t take the blinking anymore. “Augh she keeps blinking I can’t stand it,” I say, and get up to go watch the rice boil, listening to the TV from the kitchen. Then there was the sucking on her teeth.
So I was incredibly amused to see today that everyone else noticed that too, and has commented on it. At length.
The teeth, I think, she was probably just so consumed with the fear she might have lipstick on her teeth. Once you get an idea like that into your head, you start compulsively thinking, “do I taste lipstick?” and feeling for it. Poor lady. I’m sure that’s what it was.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
We didn’t see that. Are we the last people in the world not to have hi-def? When our old set broke down on us last year, we actually bought a smaller replacement. TV is improved by not being able to see it, I find.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Are you kidding? We watched it on my old TV. The same one we watched the Gulf War on. Our TV is being craigslisted so we’ve fallen back on my trusty ol’ kids’-videogame TV. No, it wasn’t the resolution. It was the incessant, distracting, disconcerting blinking.