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11/29/2007

We're back on the interwebs! I would like to take this opportunity to say hello to the outside world, I've missed you all very much. All complaints as to my lack of communication shall be directed to the offices of Cox Communications, whose internet "service" is a joke.

For those who know me and Chris on a personal level, you know that we survive on a steady diet of House, MD and PBS. That's it...that's all we require. We don't love "I love New York", we've never seen a single episode of "The Hills", and even the History Channel in unnecessary. Just give us a set of bunny ears, and please don't call us between 8 and 9pm on Tuesday nights cause, suckas, we're watching Fox and you KNOW we won't answer our phones.

When I say that we watch a lot of PBS, I mean that it's all we watch (except between 8 and 9pm on Tuesdays). It's not because we're elitist or believe that TV will usher in the fall of civilization. We're just cheap. And really? PBS? Pretty awesome.

So, Tulsa, I just want to say that you have BROKEN MY HEART. Even with our state of the art bunny ears (not those $9.99 sets for the amateurs...we splurged for the $15.99 pair) the only channel that comes in is Univision. UNIVISION! Until They start broadcasting with English subtitles, this just will not stand.

I AM NOT going to be strong armed into buying basic cable. Cox Communications shall not win!

Labels: life, Tulsa, tv

posted at 3:39 PM

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4/18/2007

Monday night Chris and I stayed up past our bedtime to watch "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" – the latest powerful installment of the Iraq War documentary series "America at a Crossroads" which is playing all this week on PBS.

The documentary, which features a variety of dramatic readings and author interviews, showcases several works from the pens of soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For as much as the media has documented the war in Iraq, I've seldom viewed any coverage that truly expresses the human emotions and struggles of those who are most involved. I have never before been exposed to anything as heart wrenchingly honest as the stories of these soldiers. The documentary is tragic and intensely beautiful in an indescribable way.

The Iraq War has become so politicized that, to most people, it's become just one more issue to polarize the nation. We discuss the war, but do we even realize what we're talking about? We've turned it into an abstract idea when there is nothing more concrete than what these men and women are going through. We, as civilians, have become far too removed and far too complacent.

Watching this film – listening to the first hand accounts – has humanized the war for me and given me a much deeper appreciation for the nightmare these people endure. With each vignette I understood that, soldier or civilian, we are all the same. That soldier on screen fighting fear and dust and boredom could just as easily be my husband, or my brother... or me.

Labels: literature, pbs, tv, war