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Sunday, November 20, 2005 12:00 AM

I Like to Watch

As middle-class Americans, we have no actual lives and are forced to nourish our zombie souls on TV shows about whiny do-gooders, slam poetry and incoherent melodramatic teenagers.

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  • Sunday, November 20, 2005 04:35 AM

    Watching TV so I can enjoy the column more.

    Heather's column is bang on as usual. But it's part of the problem: she's forcing me to waste my life watching TV just so I can catch ALL her references. No one else could have made me sit through an entire episode of America's Top Model.

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