#110 Vidiots!

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Big brother is watching you. And so is big sister. Uncle Henry’s in on the act, too. It’s getting hard to go anywhere without running into a nut with a video camera of some sort.

A typical daycare music recital looks more like a press conference than a kidâs program. The presidential candidates would give up half of their remaining brain cells for the kind of video coverage those toddlers get. Maybe the Constitution should be changed to limit nominees to candidates who can belt out I’m A Little Teapot off key.

Most of the camcorders are run by men. This goes back to the traditional male role which was established in the distant past when human beings lived in caves instead of suburbs. Prehistoric women stayed at the cave and cared for the children while their mates wandered the plains tracking and video taping animals…
 

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NOTES: 

• I’ll confess. A lot of what I wrote in this episode was really about me. I’m a huge video geek, even though I can’t afford all of the gear I’d like. When I do want to buy gear (or just go on a virtual window-shopping trip) I like to surf to B&H Photo/Video:
  http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
• I’m delighted that Short Cummings Audio has been nominted for a Parsec Award. To learn more about the awards, check out this page:
  http://www.parsecawards.com/
• This program has also been nominated in two different categories in the Podcast Peer Awards — Short and Comedy. If you’re a podcaster and would be willing to vote for me, I’d appreciate the support. Of course, as I noted in the episode, there are a lot of great shows in both of those categories so you can’t possibly go wrong no matter how you vote. The links are here:
  http://tinyurl.com/56e3g6
  http://tinyurl.com/6hluzm

Tags: humor essay | funny story | video | camcorder | comedy