National Off-Screen Week

Your top eight aren't the people on your Myspace.  They're the people who would carry your casket if you died.  Also, it's impossible to have two thousand friends. A friend is someone who would drop what they're doing even on a school night and talk to you when life gets too crazy.  The people on your flatscreen t.v. aren't real. I mean, it's just a bunch of actors playing dress up.

America forgets all of that.  We spend so much time in front of a screen that we lose track of what's real and what's fake.  After awhile, we become the actors playing dress up.  I'm going to tell you about an idea to fix all of this.  It's a week-long holiday called "screen-off."

Here's how it works.  If it has a screen, you have to avoid it.  So, you have to cook your food on a stove and not in front of a screen.  You have to avoid computer screens, television screens and cell phone screens.  You can listen to the radio, but not to your iPod.  It has a screen.  The only screen you can use is your porch screen and even that has to be open.

For a full week, we can play outside and have barbecues.  We'll eat carne asada and there will be mariachi bands and other live music. Cable would be shut down completely so no one could even be tempted by it.  When the week is over, the American people could go back to normal. But we might just view the screens differently.

What do you think? Would you celebrate that kind of holiday?

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