Morning Curmudgeon
You wanna know one of the tragedies of the modern world?
Remember Bob Ross?
The guy that would teach you to paint on PBS? Soft voice, big 'fro? "Happy little trees?"
Of course you do. Everybody remembers Bob Ross. People that couldn't paint anything to save their life remember Bob Ross.
They were talking about Bob Ross on the radio morning show today, and of course, everybody knew who Bob Ross was. And then they started talking about some program on PBS today, and had to go into great depth explaining what it was.
And here's why--You had to watch Bob Ross. When we were little, you had four channels if you were really lucky. And most everybody had PBS. So if you watched TV, when you changed channels, eventually you were going to see Bob Ross. It was just a given, no way around it.
Today, our TV with the fewest channels still goes almost all the way up to 100. I don't know what all's out there, and I know there's just tons of stuff out there I've never seen. Heck, Bob Ross has been dead for like 8 years, and I don't know if he's still on TV or not.
There's something sad about the loss of shared experience, that handy little universal references like wishing you could just twitch your nose like Samantha on Bewitched are going away.
OK, I'm through griping. On with the blog.

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