DAWN UNPLUGGED
DAWN UNPLUGGED
I don’t know if it was seeing that CBS planned to bring back Big Brother for a 5th go round or if it was the promos for “Marry My Dad,” or maybe with one month to go until my annual turning one year older, I’m feeling especially contemplative, but I have decided to give up television for the month.
Last night at 11:59 p.m. I unplugged the set from the wall and placed the cord on top of the box.
I’ve suffered no ill effects yet and this morning I realized that it is not watching 3 hours of television in the morning that has been responsible for my failure to leave the house at a decent hour.
I am just a slacker.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:25 pm
i have not had cable in may apartment for two years.
Although i still watch moives, and follow a couple shows that my friends also watched (24 and survior), but those are over now.
I just watch a movie when i don’t want to think anymore.
In 3 and half weeks you will be a conservitve.
June 8th, 2004 at 5:28 pm
That would certainly be an unexpected sideffect of my sabbatical.
June 8th, 2004 at 10:00 pm
You are such wayster. Karol would be so proud.
June 8th, 2004 at 10:10 pm
yes! more time to blog!
June 8th, 2004 at 10:48 pm
Wow. Maybe you could make a documentary about your month without TV, called “Dawnie Unplugged.” All you have to do is get it to Sundance, where it will compete with my documentary, “Televisionary,” which chronicles my month of nothing but television…
June 8th, 2004 at 10:58 pm
honestly if i could take off work for a month i would be the chronicler for you
(chronicler is the one who does the chronicling right)
June 9th, 2004 at 3:04 pm
i could have sworn you liked six feet under ms summers, doesn’t that start on sunday?
June 9th, 2004 at 3:15 pm
Still waiting for Second Season to come out on DVD… I won’t start watching a new season of a serial without the backstory. I had hoped that they would come out faster than 13 months apart, but whaddaya gonna do?
June 9th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
What does wayster mean, Andrew? Karol only teaches me Russian now, so I’m not up on my Scottish.
June 12th, 2004 at 2:56 am
I wish you the best of luck with it.
I have gone without cable for nearly six months now. (too much money for nothing really worth watching.)
I still find myself watching local TV from time to time, but I am reminded to turn it off when they bombard me with all their constant garbage.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
[...] A few years ago, I did the unthinkable. I gave up TV for the month before my birthday. There was no grand plan, back then, I just plugged the TV out and went to sleep. I was cranky and miserable and bitter for weeks, to the point where I almost said “nuts to this!” But I stuck it out, wrote some interesting stories, solved a few global problems AND learned something about myself. I repeated the experiment the following year, but this time I built in so many exceptions to my non-TV watching that really the only thing I sacrificed was watching Sports and once I decided poker wasn’t really a Sport, I’d really accomplished nothing. I didn’t even bother going through the motions last year. But the season approaches again and I’m thinking of taking the Dawn Summers Summer Blackout Challenge again. Lord knows I’m behind on my novel reading, my screenplay writing and one of a million other things I can do with the seven hours a day I spend watching television. Well, the gauntlet has been thrown. Will I pick it up? [...]