Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 7:06 PM by Gene

I just came out of a dry cleaner's where a -- well, a counter person was listening to the radio, a very LOUD radio, tuned to a Viacon or Cheap Channel station (that's all we have; that's all anyone has) and it was in a twenty-minute commercial break, all exceedingly irritating commercials, each more irritating than the last, including a typically psycho announcer for a dealer of an imported brand that either I never heard of or that breaks down often and an allegedly humorous spot by some sort of phone company whose fifty-million dollar spokespoop Madame DeFarge is using her lawyers again because somebody took pictures of her topless, pregnant, and smoking a cigarette -- ANYWAY, it was a "humorous" commercial, and as the "legendary" Dick and Bert never stopped proving, "humorous" ads are the worst. But to the point: Listening to that torrent of LOUD commericials reminded me why I haven't turned on the radio in years, and WHY, Lowsy and Zon, I will never listen to the radio again so long as you have anything to do with it.

Go stick that one up your Arbitrons.