I can't read

It used to be that if people admitted this at all, it was with a hint of shame. But the next generation will be saying it with pride, because it will mean that they're hip, or whatever the equivalent term will be in the future. (hey I'm so uncool that for all I know that term has already been passe for ages-oh well.)

Reading is going out of fashion. Watching words disappear bit by bit has been distressing me. I go to read the blog of a clever writer, and there's a video sitting there instead. I click on a website, and a commercial starts yapping at me.

To a non-TV owner, there's nothing worse than a snippet of advertising leaping out and attacking at unexpected moments. I have already expressed my opinion regarding the bombardment of ballyhoo.

Thank goodness for books and magazines that don't reach out to smack a person upside the head. But alas, according to an article by the BBC, that's about to change. If ever I'm peacefully reading a book or a magazine article, enjoying the magic a good writer can make with well hung words, and a page starts talking to me about diaper creme or why I should own a hummer, I'm going to grab the nearest sharp implement and hack that offending organ into itty bitty dysfunctional chunks.