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See, I'm selfish. I don't care if he knows about the places I like. I just want to find more places to like.
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Speaking of which, I love these WQED PBS specials, with titles like "A Hot Dog Program" and "Sandwiches That You Will Like" and "Great Old Amusment Parks."
They're a lot of fun. And they interview real people. No flashy stuff here. When you're watching an interview with the toothless conductor of a miniature train talking about how you can "really open 'er up on the downhill," you realize America is so much more interesting than the version we usually get on TV.
They're on Netflix, if you're not seeing them come up on your local PBS affiliate.
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I'd love to have him over to my kitchen and challenge him to a cooking duel. I don't care if I lose -- that would just mean that I get to eat something better than I could cook.
Maybe I'll email the food network and invite him...
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I thought the pig foot was hilarious. And his face upon describing what he used to order at the closed-down diner was heartbreaking.
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Even if you are 'not a video media person,' by which I often take to mean something along the lines of 'I find television to be incredibly, mind-numbingly vapid' (something which I sympathize with), Alton Brown's culinary tales are worthwhile in all formats.
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I understand what you're saying, Sam, and it's true that I do find most television to be incredibly, mind-numbingly vapid, but in addition to that, I think my brain dislikes seeing anything moving on screen. Even icons that wiggle on the computer are unpleasant for me to experience, and I go to some lengths to prevent those from displaying. I watch perhaps 5 movies a year, and then only if someone says to me "let's watch a movie" and it's something I very much want to watch. Television I almost never watch. There's something about the mechanics of the moving images themselves, I've decided, and the way they are processed by my brain and visual system, that I find fairly unpleasant. So while I might while away an afternoon reading a book I didn't particularly like, and consider myself well-entertained, if I spent the afternoon watching really good movies on dvd, I would feel as though (even though I enjoyed the movies) I wasted my precious leisure time. It's something about the different cognitive processes, and how they interact with all my brain systems, I think.
Anyway, I love Alton Brown, and have two big cookbooks by him, which I've read many times and have incorporated many of his suggestions into my own cooking. I'm sure he's lots of fun to watch, too. I just like the print version better. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Hmm. Yeah, I guess there's no way around that. I had a friend who had a similar condition: could not watch television or movies at all without getting mentally distressed by the movement. Though that was actually a motion sickness thing that she eventually got a medication specifically for.
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You know what? Motion sickness could definitely come into it. I have been prone to motion sickness since I was little. That's an interesting observation.
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