Changing the Channel

I just implemented a practice that I didn't know I had already started.  Yesterday I had some extra time to think (won't explain the circumstances), but anyway, I realized that over the past recent time I had started changing the channel when anything about the Palins came on TV.  Well, it all came to a head Friday night when I was reading one of the blogs I regularly read and they started going off about Sarah Palin's children.

Apparently there was some controversy about something one or two of them had posted on their Facebook pages, gay slurs I believe.  This came after an entire week of nonstop coverage of the Dancing with the Stars shocker when Brandy and Maks received a perfect score of 30, yet Bristol Palin and her partner Mark Ballas somehow escaped elimination to make it to the finals. I had only watched to see the dancing, and now that was ruined because Bristol really can't dance.  Everywhere I turned there was talk of conspiracy and ballot stuffing, ways to "outwit" the controls set up by ABC for the voting.  Finally, toward the end of the week, the media started to focus on Sarah Palin's new book coming out soon. 

What I noticed was that I had started changing the channel when something came on about the Palins.  So I decided to merely formalize in my mind what I was already subconsciously doing anyway.  Don't get me wrong:  I'm not a Sarah-Hater.  I'm just bored with it all.  She's totally irrelevant to my life and I have no desire to know anything about what she or her clan might be doing or saying or thinking. 

I've been to Alaska already and I still have friends there.  If I need any information about Alaska, I can get it.  Since I am not a reality-show fan anyway, there is no reason for me to watch the new show her family has on TV.

So ABC-TV just started to show something about the upcoming episode with Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars.  I changed the channel.  It didn't matter where I went.  Turns out I got cartoons on CBS.  That was okay because I only had to stay a minute or so because ABC didn't stay with Bristol very long.  They were quickly on to another story.

The same thing goes for the radio -- regular and satellite.  I will change those channels, too.  I will also turn the magazine or newspaper page and click the mouse button to skip past anything to do with the Palins.  I am not interested in the gossip about their marriage or the politics of whether Sarah may run in 2012 or the news on what Bristol may or may not win. 

Just.  Don't.  Care.

Thank goodness that an ad is on right now hawking Andrea Bocelli's White Christmas album.  I can listen to his singing day and night.  In fact, I think I may put on one of his CDs right now. 

Happy Thanksgiving.