Teleidoscope

Sun, May 04, 2008

Derby

Posted at 10:04 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

The finale of this year's Kentucky Derby was horrible and sad. I would say that something needs to be done about breeders who breed their animals to unhealthy extremes, but I suspect any substantive change in the behavior of the human breeders would require breeding of humans.

The fact of the Kentucky Derby reminded me... the first show I ever watched on a TV that I, personally, owned, was a Kentucky Derby.

It was the end of my junior or senior year at Wesleyan (I don't remember which) and I had been saving all year for it. I walked down the steep hill from campus to Main Street -- which had actual stores where you could buy things like TVs in those days -- and bought a small black and white TV with a yellow plastic case. It had a 10 or 12 inch screen.

I carried the TV (which was heavy even though it was small) back up the hill to my dorm room and plugged it in. I was able to pick up a couple of channels on the rabbit ears, which was about as good as you could expect on the first weekend of May in 1975 or 1976. And because it was Saturday afternoon of the first weekend in May, what I found to watch was the Kentucky Derby.

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