Wednesday, August 21, 2019

so no one told you life was going to be this way



        The Guardian (online) had an article today titled,

"The age of comfort TV:  why people are secretly watching Friends and The Office on a loop"

(sub-heading) -- We are in an era of 'prestige television', with unprecedented choice and quality.  So why are so many of us streaming endless reruns of 90s sitcoms?

written by Richard Godwin

----------------------- One of the Reader Comments said she likes to start binge-watching episodes of a favorite situation comedy, and "create a little bubble and totally tune out."

     ...Like Timothy Leary in 1966 advising everyone to "Turn on, tune in, drop out."


(Found this painting representing Timothy Leary -- but doesn't he look kinda like Alec Baldwin...?)

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