HERE HERE OR A CONFESSION OR TWO

With our new tv a year and a half ago, they threw in a sub-woofer, which means even though it was a special, we paid too much. It's the first kind of woofer I ever had. I remember wanting a reverberator that a friend of mine in high school had rigged up to his dad's car. It made every song sound like that hollow Phil Collins' sound in "Something in the Air Tonight." But it was cool, or the girls thought so.

When I teached school ( I think I'll start talking like that once in awhile just to get a reaction and then explain that I certainly wasn't paid enough to use the Queen's English correctly, so you get what you pay for--or as a former school board member's husband once said, "you don't get much of a show for a nickel".) I had a room heater that squealed a sound whose high pitch I couldn't hear. But my students could and they would beg me to stop the awful sound. A good kick in the front by the motor usually did the job.

And that relates to my sub-woofer how? Well, not only did I not hear that sound years ago, I don't hear as well as I once did. But when "Glee" comes on tv on Tuesday nights--see there's my second confession: I watch "Glee". Have since the start. I'm that way. I used to watch "Dawson's Creek". When I was high school I watched the tv show Peyton Place with Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, and a beautiful girl named Barbara Parkins. I think she was in "Valley of the Dolls", too (not II), but that's all I ever remember seeing her in. She was cool. So I have a history of watching stuff that someone once said, "there's no accounting for taste".

But in "Glee" when Britney speaks, I can't understand a word. She's one of the funniest on the show--last week when forced to sign a contract, she asked how to make an "r". That's funny to me (remember about taste) but I had to ask my wife what she said.

So there you have it. Two confessions. But I wonder if the big Magnavox megaphone speaker would fit in our family room?