Blog About Nothing
For most of the four years in an Engineering college, I did one thing that we ought to do... watch a whole lot of TV series.Those days, we had to start with FRIENDS and then maybe go to the next level. Different people had different next levels. Some moved on to soaps overflowing with all kinds of emotions. Emotions that any creature has ever felt were all there. OC, Bold and Beautiful (?), How I Met Your Mother, etc. are in this category. Others moved to emotionless pure satirical, ironical comedies. The likes of Seinfeld, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, etc.
I moved to both. This might be because I was efficient enough to handle all my academic work with the assortment of series mentioned above (excluding Bold and ...).
I had formed separate teams specializing in both these fronts, I was the generalist in both.
There are also different reasons why people start investing so much time to both these categories of series. The initial attraction for the former is more often than not the portrayal of beauty of God's creations. The latter is mostly based on recommendations.
I was strongly recommended by one of my friends to first watch the "Live on Broadway" by Jerry Seinfeld (who was doing it for the last time). The title of the blog must be a hint that I would get to this sooner or later. Wasn't very impressed the first time. My friend said that I needed to watch it a few times to get into the mood. He had seen that video 40 times by then. Don't know about his current score. Well, a couple of times more and I had started liking it, so then I did what I normally do. Get hold of some of my friends and made them watch this. (I had done this to a friend by giving him sessions on FRIENDS earlier. It was fun.)
I started watching the TV series 'Seinfeld' shortly, but it was too late to finish in the whole of that in my four years of graduation. It took a while to arrange for all seasons later, but now I have access to all episodes.
This time its one of my flat mates with whom I have formally started on Seinfeld. Now, I am in the 9th season and slightly depressed that this would all finish soon. Not that I wouldn't watch many of the episodes again, but first time is different.
Just wondering how a conversation between Jerry and George would go about blogging:
Jerry: What is the deal with people filling up blogs with something about themselves? Isn't the stuff totally useless for everyone else?
George: Jerry, you don't understand. Blogging makes you feel that you had a good conversation with someone who is listening. You can talk about stuff and views that you would be reluctant to share with people face to face. You can know more about other people's views on any topic. Plus, there are a lot of chicks out there. Also, ...
Jerry [Interrupting George]: All right, all right. Why don't you put all this on your blog instead?
George: Pass me the sauce.
posted by kaushal @ 8:09 PM
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