Chimney Watch

Just when I thought CNN couldn't get any worse: there's a shot of the chimney out of which smoke will signal whether or not a new Pope has been chosen (black for no Pope, white for new Pope). Not a taped shot of the chimney blowing smoke, but a static, continuous, ALWAYS ON THE SCREEN live shot of the chimney.

This is what the news has come to: chimney watch. Andy Warhol must have been prescient when he filmed an 8-hour static shot of the Empire State Building and made it into a movie.

...I just watched Kyra Dunderhead and Delia Bigger Dunderhead actually arguing about whether or not the smoke was black or white. "We don't have the color confirmed," they said, as the black smoke was flying out of the chimney.

Jesus wept.