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Friday, June 24, 2005

ANNALS OF TV-AVERSIVES

UD, as longtime readers know, does not own a television. Like a number of other tv-aversives, she has a dvd player for movies.

As one of a rare breed, she finds it interesting to keep track of other tv-aversives. One is featured in today’s New York Times:



A selective polymath, Ms. Lerner has, since being forced out of Cisco in 1990 after feuds with the company’s chief executive, started and sold a cosmetics company (Urban Decay), read Jane Austen compulsively, schooled herself in the ways of Colonial farming, studied the history of costume, made period ball gowns, collected books on 18th-century typography, and perfected her Regency dancing. “I can dance in five centuries and two sexes,” she said.

That interest, though, does not seem to have predisposed her to watch “Orlando” over and over. Film and television don’t interest her; she has VCR for guests, and no cable.

“I’m not a watcher,” she offered. “Life is short. Why watch other people doing stuff?”