Well, I was planning on recapping tonight’s episode of Alias… but my goddamned cable company fucked up again, and all of my network and movie channels are out.  So I missed tonight’s Alias in addition to last week’s Lost.  This is getting to be a fairly big annoyance, given my minor addiction to pop culture and television.

And now, the reasons why I’m going to be stubborn and not switch from Stupid Fucking Adelphia™ to DirecTV or Dish Network:

1. I don’t have a landline in my apartment.  Therefore, I can’t get DSL, I need a cable modem for high-speed Internet, and I think the satellite receivers need the phone lines to download stuff from the mothership computers.  Additionally, it’s cheaper for me to bundle the cable modem with my cable service rather than order it on its own in addition to satellite.

2. Have I mentioned the pop-culture addiction?  This means I need every channel known to man, and the satellite TV services simply don’t carry all the movie channels I can get on cable.  Yes, I know, Dish and DirecTV say they have 8 HBO channels.  Well, I’ve got 12… when they actually are receivable.  You satellite folks don’t get HBO Comedy or HBO Zone or Showtime Next or Showtime Beyond or @Max or 5StarMax or OuterMax or ThrillerMax—and lemme tell you… woo hoo!  You just don’t know what you’re missing. 

3. There’s a chance I may have separation issues.  I’ve had cable for so long… I just don’t know if I can cut the cord.  [sob]