Passing the Time With Emmy-Award Winners
(I was going to post a picture of some random infant, but I’m not that cruel.)
I just looked at the details of our Netflix account, and I noticed that we got our first DVD in the mail in April 2002. I’d like to think that we’re one of the trailblazers in their service (the fact that they actually started their rent-by-mail service four years earlier and the subscription service we now all know and love in 2000 is moot). Back then, they didn’t have the national presence they do today, and I remember the first 6 months or so we mailed back the discs to either California or Minnesota. Now, I think, there are about 4 different Chicago addresses.
Anyway, what does this have to do with Barnabas, you ask? Well, in preparation for the monkey’s arrival (who knows when that’s going to be happening…), we’ve changed up our rental queue quite a bit, and stacked it with DVDs of television programs.
You see, as I’ve witnessed over my 36 years, infants tend to have crazy schedules. Awake then asleep then awake then crying then asleep then awake… and that’s only for a 3-hour period. During those times when they’re asleep, and you’re too exhausted to put in another load of laundry or shower or eat some toast, you may want to sit down in front of the tube and watch something.
A movie? No way will he be asleep long enough for a movie. Cable news? I’d rather knaw my foot off. As the World Turns? Well, perhaps. But ideally, that’ll be the time to pop in a DVD of season 2 of Veronica Mars or season 3 of Battlestar Gallactica or season 1 of Rome.
Forty minutes later, the episode over, you can saunter over to the baby and clean up whatever God-forsaken mess has appeared in his diapers.
Kristen’s pretty excited about this as well, considering she’ll be having some late-night feeding sessions that I really can’t participate in, if you know what I’m saying.
If anyone has any recommendations of your favorite TV shows on DVD, feel free to post them, but for now, we’re anxiously awaiting the final season of The Wire, then Dexter season two, then Spaced, then…
August 19th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I highly recommend both Freaks & Geeks and also Undeclared. Both are very funny and just a 1/2 hour long so they would be good to have on hand.
Also, Lifetime airs roughly 3 hours of Golden Girls every day. If you DVR all of them you will have enough shows to watch during all late night feedings.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Oz, Brothers & Sisters, The L Word, Queer as Folk—you could even relive your earlier days with Beverly Hills, 90210!
August 19th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Great idea; just be careful. Particularly if Kristen develops a little postpartum depression. Anything could tick it off–like a very special episode of “Home Improvement.”
P.S. Don’t forget British TV. “Black Adder”‘s pretty bloody ridiculous, and check out “Little Britain.”
August 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
Hehe this isn’t quite so intellectually challenging, but I love NewsRadio, the old one with Phil Hartman and the guy from Kids in the Hall. And watch for Mad Men when it comes out – it is basically a soap opera but beautifully set in 1960. You will drool over the furniture!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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