It’s making me a little less sad that BayTV is disappearing forever at midnight tonight. The final two shows were repeats of 90-minute specials featuring Molly Ivins and Fran Liebowitz. It’s about as close to heaven as you can get on a Tuesday night.
But at midnight, there’s no more BayTV. Only The Food Network, with its endless repeats of “1001 Uses for Polenta” or whatever. All the same, maybe replacing a news and information channel with one about trendy food is uniquely appropriate in the Bay Area, where style increasingly trumps substance.
Or maybe our antiquated cable system, with its limited channel capacity just sucks. If so, it demonstrates once again AT&T’s commitment to mediocrity across all its operations. Consistency is always comforting.
I’m coming precariously close to babbling now. It’s the medication. Trust me.