They were the grossest distractions ever.

Email from my mom: "I got an offer of one-month free Netflix so I jumped in. I did the survey of favorites but I want to ask for Downton Abbey series. Hope I successfully got that across. Do they usually just send stuff they think you'd want to see? I feel as tho' I've already seen all I want to see, but anyway I'm giving it a whirl with the hopes I get the PBS... Read More » series of Downton Abbey." She signed up for Netflix thinking it was like Pandora, and somehow she was okay with a program where you don't pick what you want, you just get what you are dealt. This popular service amounting to the prize at the bottom of a cracker jack box... hope it's a good one!

February 15, 2012