draftsman

I am a lazy , lazy man. I have spent the afternoons of my weekend being not very productive and watching way too much Television on the internet.
Today I am just going to rant for a bit. I have been listening to the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron. It is a really funny and insightful show. If you like comedians , sitcoms or creative people. I think you would probably dig the show. Two of my favorite episodes that I have listened to have been the episode with Paul Raiser and Christopher Titus. I grew up watching the two sitcoms and I really enjoyed listening to their conversations talking about being comedians.

When I first got to the U.S. when I was 12 . I learned a lot of language watching Television. It was this weird window into the world that existed beyond my neighborhood and Spanish Language Television. I could not relate to watching Television in Spanish while living in the U.S. All they played was Soap Operas , the news , some skit comedy shows and really old movies from Mexico. The programs were only interrupted by commercials for big box retailers, money sending services ,and long distance telephone services with great rates to Mexico and south America. It all seemed geared to people that wanted to go back and spent a lot of time yearning to be in the old country.

I watched a lot of sitcoms growing up and partially it was because they were in English , but t allowed me to see new places in this world that I was now becoming a part of. It was through a steady cultural diet of sitcoms ,comic books, science fiction movies, cartoons and pornography that I developed my American personality. If you ever see those movies in which people learned to speak the English and they speak like sport casters , sitcom characters and/or news casters.

I did not go through all those phases , but I learned my speaking style and with from watching sitcoms and then later on comedians. Humor is how I saw America and humor is how I speak American.

Completely tangential and irrelevant rant over.

I hope you all have a great holiday season. If nothing else be happy you get to make out like a bandit if you have people in your life that are generous and give you a gift.