things that are obnoxious
1.) debates about which ivy league universities are the best / worst
2.) the fine living network.

aah the perils of digital cable. all the crap that's below the crud that's at the bottom of the barrel. the other day, i happened to tivo a show b/c "new zealand" was in its description (via the Wish List feature). it was about a family that gave it all up and sailed around the world. or tried to anyways. it seemed clear to me that documenting the travel in a television series was an afterthought because the entire 30 minute show consisted of someone shaking a camera at the same photographs over and over again, as if to make the watcher feel that she too is at sea, and home films.

the narrator tried to say that the family had struggles. pshaw! struggles? b/c you're cruising around the world on a fucking yacht? not very compelling. but maybe it is to the "fine living network" set.