~Sun of a...

9:28 AM - 3/7/06

ok, so... finally, I get to the point where I can't take what my cable company offers as entertainment anymore. I go online and look up the "packages". All I really want is Sundance. Why Sundance is a "pay channel" in this neck of the woods, I won't go into, but as ticked off as I've been with the programming, and variety of channels that come with my current subscription, I finally gave in. Fuck it. I'll PAY for Sundance. PLEASE!!! Just STOP the RIGHT WING ORGY that's going on, on my tv screen! IFC alone just isn't doing it for me anymore!!!

So, I decide, last night, that I'll pay the $13 a month or so, to get my Sundance... and hey, I'll get Showtime as a bonus. Look, if the majority of your time is spent stuck in bed staring, tv takes on a whole new meaning. I was pumped. I had decided. I actually MADE A DECISION.

I get up today, and quickly go to fantasy land. I turn on the tv, and play "I wonder what I'd be watching if I already had my new cable package."

Very quickly, my smile turned into a frown.

I couldn't find the Sundance channel listed on the menu.

I looked and looked. I checked the little card that I got when they hooked up the cable. It was there, on the card. It wasn't there on menu.

Where's Sundance?

I worried.

I made coffee and plopped my butt down in front of the computer.

I went to my cable company's website. It was listed there, in the Showtime package, right where I left it.

Only one thing could be the case. Although it existed in cyberspace, it no longer existed in the real world.

Angry, and full of "it's a Right Wing conspiracy" ideas, I was left to make yet another decision. Movies, uncut and slightly reflecting reality, or edited movies brought to me by Grace, the anatomically correct, life sized, talking "unborn child".

I called my cable company. They informed me that just within the last month, Sundance had cancelled with them. Yeah. Right. I believe you.

I went with the Cinemax package.

Well shit, I did tell you that I spend most of my life in bed.

Crappy, fake porn is better than no porn at all.