Break Time

During the non-ratings season, Emergency Contact and I like to get into self-funded TV series festivals. We hire or buy a series that we’ve heard good things about and then watch the entire thing in a few sittings.

At the moment we are serving a Prison Break Stretch and this leads me to an observation. I’m sure I’m not surprising anyone when I say that some prisons in the United States have “conjugal visits”. Your EC turns up for some ‘hide the file in the cake’ and it’s sanctioned by the correctional institution you are the guest of.

That just about tips it. Seriously, what are the down sides of prison?

Some of the activities we find most onerous in day-to-day living are all about acting like an adult and maintaining our freedom. Paying the bills and feeding yourself require you to go to work. At work, you are required to think about things that do not interest you, and quite often for other people who couldn’t be bothered thinking about them on their own. Parking is always hard to find, the cost of real estate is a joke, the need to think of something for dinner comes around far more often than it should and even though in theory you can sleep in on a Saturday, when was the last time you actually did? Knowing that you can have all that removed from the daily equation and still get a federally mandated regular bonk, sounds like the answer.

Look, I know there are some downsides - and getting a new girlfriend called Vince is not the worst of them - but just for a minute there...

Anyway, as I said, we’re in the middle of a Prison Break Stretch (fancy names for the 'binge watching' makes it sound better) and it’s a bit of fun. There are holes in the plot bigger than the underground tunnel system the heroes run through, but I can’t fault the pace of Season One. You’ve got to be careful not to let the binge viewing affect your mind, though. I don’t want to go stir, know what I mean? After the West Wing Incumbency  I could only talk while I was walking, but I can’t worry about that now. I’ve got to go sharpen my toothbrush.