Tuesday List: What I’ve Learned from TV

Stephen Morris

11 months ago

[The Boob Tube. This can refer to “boob” as in dull, slow-minded nitwit, or “boob” as in breast, the original source of nourishment and comfort. Or as our resident Jungle poet Silverback Haiku Larry might say:

I find my comfort

at the electronic boob

in my living room.

Below are three photos showing me at various stages of life, watching television from my favorite chair:

Here’s me with my Dad. I’m getting a little large to be sharing the chair, so he’ll soon have to find another place to sit:

A few years later, the only thing that can get me out of my chair is sports. It was from this chair that I watched the Celtics win many championships, the Patriots triumph in multiple Super Bowls, the Red Sox break The Curse of the Bambino, the aftermath of the JFK assassination, OJ escaping in the white Bronco, and Elvis and The Beatles make their debuts on Ed Sullivan.”

And here I am today, same chair, several re-coverings later. These days the offerings are limited only by your imagination and wallet. You can even find this video on YouTube!

Sure, the song is moronic, the performance inept, the video production laughable, but this is what happens when you put a smartphone in the paws of a Silverback. I apologize in advance to my fellow Silverbelles and Silverbacks in The Jungle. In this I attempt to rap over a pilfered Bob Dylan riff while juxtaposing my suburban, white bread roots with the black experience in describing the first public gig performed by Greg *and Del the teenage duo that eventually evolved into the Old Rockers.*

And here is some of my accumulated wisdom:

While you might be saying “He really has courage to show this in public, I say to myself, “This is what genius looks like.”