Strong Signals

On Saturday, apartment 9 took a giant leap into the 20th century and bought a TV. Now, I consider myself not an idiot, but maybe I've been wrong. I was under the impression that one earned basic cable simply by owning a TV, and began receiving said channels simply by plugging the TV into the wall. I wasn't expecting HBO or MTV, but at the very least some UPN. Well, imagine my surprise when I was instead met with the sound of static and the disappointment of a wasted Saturday night. Luckily, the boys at Steinway Electronics hooked me up with this antenna, which adds to the apartment both the soothing sounds of actual television, and the creepy presence of a brown plastic "satellite dish."

When your attena looks like this, you just know it's working hard. I mean, I get like 5 channels in SPANISH.