July 12, 2019 - News Post

My neighbor's TV is always on.

It's not my next door neighbor. It's someone who lives a few buildings away up the hill in a nearby apartment complex. The back of their home faces the front of mine, and not a single window is blocked by anything more opaque than glass. As of this moment, and every moment since I’ve lived here, I see their TV through the window.

This TV is massive. It must take up half the wall. It’s situated juuust high enough to be in full view from every window on the front of my house. 2am, 2pm, it makes no difference. The TV is always there to greet me, and its brightness is always set to “supernova”.

I can see it through my blinds, I can see it projecting on my own wall late at night when I'm trying to sleep. It’s a good screen. Chrystal clear resolution. Yet despite being able to read subtitles in movies from several houses away, I have never seen a single human in that house.

Lights go on, lights go off, but I’ve never seen a person.

And while I've never seen a human, I have seen and heard a tiny white poodle. It trots around, jumps on the window, and occasionally barks. Yet the rooms are so empty, and humans so scarce, that it would seem that people left the TV on while away to entertain the dog.

…Or maybe the dog chooses its own favorite shows.

So what does the dog like to watch? What soothing entertainment does it stare at day in and day out for months on end?

War movies.

Horrible, gruesome, bloody, gritty, explosion filled war movies.

I'm pretty sure it killed its owners.

-Jeff