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• Sunday, July 22, 2007 08:19 PM

  Dorotheaa, watch what you like.

  You have cable (which is expensive; get a DirecTV or Dish Network instead). You have many channels available. It's true what Bill Maher said; five are good, ten are shopping channels and the rest are in Spanish. But concentrate on those five channels.

  If you get a TiVo with your dish, you can set it up to record movies and shows you like. It will even try to predict what shows you like depending on what you watched. It can capture some odd delights through this process. With a bit of technical prowess and a good computer, you can even save those programs on DVD and watch them when you want.

  (I could also tell you to learn something about your computer and Bittorrent, so you can get movies and programs the megacorporations don't want you to see...but it would be wrong.)

  It is a shame that Hollowwood doesn't make movies for intelligent people. They're cutting their own throat. They're also ruining our nation; if we aren't brought together by mass media, we'll all turn into a bunch of feuding mini-nations like the former Soviet states. But as far as your personal entertainmetn and enlightenment, you can find remarkable alternatives if you look. There are even movies available only on DVD, produced by the individuals that make them, that you can locate on web sites like Film Threat. They are NOT all slasher, stupid comedy or moron CGI movies. You have to dig, but that's also a joy; think of it as digging through a junk shop and finding the occasional diamond.

  —tomreedtoon Read tomreedtoon's other letters
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