There's a limit to how much I can tune out

And scott doesn't help much with his bizarre fascination with television. I hate it. He has these dumb-ass distractions on, which for the most part I can ignore, but then he likes to comment upon them as if I'm paying the slightest bit of attention. The present one, of course, is the end of american idol. The perfunctory Times article calls it a “monster-size celebration of mediocrity that, astonishingly, has not lost its hold on viewers even in its fifth season.”