ST ~ the rotisserie channel

@Doug: Well said, Doug. There must be a hundred channels on my roster of hundreds that should not exist, unless I am woefully overestimating the intelligence of my species!

@Gérard Beullac: Oh my goodness, no please ! ;-) ... (those dots are not saliva from chicken fragrance) Come to think of it, a feature like that might be good for certain movies in my collection, as long as I can turn it on and off. I'm thinking of Babette's Feast...

@Stephen: I'm sure it exists! I can somewhat understand a sunset channel, or anything with visual beauty, but the chickens going round and round definitely evades me. Dead animals. Just great for staunch vegetarians to point at as an example of the carnivores' barbarism.

@l'Angevine: Um, oui...

@klausZ: By the time I took out the camera, snapped a quick frame, and changed the stupid channel, I was sweating ;-) (but not hungry!)

@grouser: Makes me turn the television off and go outside or reach for a book :)

@Mhelene: The deep burning existentialist questions !

@Thea: I have perhaps a dozen favourite channels, mostly educational-documentary-travel-history type programming, and rarely venture "north" of the hundred line... so one night I surfed across the cable guide and discovered that I am missing a whole lot of nothing!

@B.Sully: I remember seeing a fireplace channel on the way to this one... I can see the value in a puppy (or kitten) channel; living things that are cute and have a positive mental and physiological affect on viewers. Dead poultry going endlessly in rotation? Not so much... happy ST right back at you :)

@Joyce: I liked that comment, too, and yours also. I have an already healthy disdain for "prime time" TV fare, bordering on snobbish probably but backed up by my forays into suffering the programming sometimes (visiting someone's place, for example)... so I am outdoors and away from this kind of mindless - sinister drivel as often as possible. Even on my best days I feel a disconnect with much of what I see in "human life", let alone to brave a brain bludgeoning from shopping channels, info-mercials, TMZ-style offal... (forces rant valve closed!)

@Judy aka L@dybug: :-) - ST is the only use I had in mind for this silly shot. Thanks, Judy.

@Slackwater - Don: Yep, and even the more established channels that used to be worth watching, for example National Geographic or Discovery, have stooped to new lows of fear mongering. I grew up with a National Geographic subscription that my dad paid for, and those wonderful magazines bear little resemblance to the crap that now besmirches the TV screen. Prison life, weapons, drug dealing worldwide, worst street gangs, "Doom Preppers" about people preparing for "end times", and on and on... I get more entertainment by FAR from using my eyes, mind, and camera. Cheers, Don.

@Denny Jump Photo: I'm sorry pal, but I ate that one on the night of this photo being taken ! If it makes you feel any better, it was rather bland...

@Denny Jump Photo: Are you diggin' that stereo sound? It's like the skin is sizzling right inside your mind! :))

@Martine: Nous avons vraiment savoir comment vivre la vie ici en Amérique du Nord! ha...

@Irene: Crap-fest, in pure digital signal, for channel after channel... and, uh, no instructional information about the poultry. Just the silent eerie rotation and sound of cooking. It would at least be interesting if the chickens cooked away until ash...

@RBL: Ha... I've fallen into that void, too. Spend a half hour seeing what's on, then get burned out by the process and turn the whole thing off :) (I have a large movie collection and tend to fall back on it a lot : for instance this week I am watching a lot of old Hitchcock and film noir because that's the mood I'm in)

@LauraS: I think that one is a few clicks up from this, and all they do is rotate Cheech and Chong movies!

@Baldwin VW: Thank you, and I agree with you about the programming agenda.

@Steven: Guilty as charged !