A while back I created this t-shirt design. Guess I was reacting to all the crap the boob-tube inflicts on the masses while dumbing them down. No, no.., I'm not cynical!

Let's face it, there really is some terrible television programming happening these days. Sure ~ there is some good stuff too, maybe even some very good, but it seems most is designed for idiots or to create idiots.

Since the interweb was unleashed, the time I used to spend watching television I now spend in front of my laptop. Not sure this is good, either, actually. I should be playing guitar or writing lyrics or hanging with friends or looking for my next ex-gf (told you I wasn't cynical).

It seems corporate media has an agenda they always want to push. Maybe it's political or moral or just financial, but there almost always seems to be some under-current pulling the viewer towards their often times disguised goal. It feels like some people I don't really know but I kind of trust but who are a bad influence on me. You know, the ones your grandma tensed her suspicious eyes at when you spoke about them.

You watch the "History Channel" and it's pushing war and being used as a recruitment tool. You tune-in MTV and Bam Margera is disrespecting his parents while MTV execs smoke their cigars and laugh at how they're corrupting American Christian values (it's getting deep in here). Even advertisements get in on it, with some a-hole from '1800 Tequila' enjoying himself as he kicks over a competitors Tequila bottle and gives you a smug look. Cool, man ~ being a jerk is cool.

Yack.

NOTE: I have been eating up Showtime's series "Shameless". Can you say hypocrisy?