Serf’s Up! (XL100 LED)
My old roommate was a complete jerk. I don’t want to name names because I am not one to trash talk….oh, who am I kidding, his name is Brian. He was, and probably still is, a complete jerk. He was an anti-social sack of anger who sat on the couch, drinking and watching golf as if his life depended on it. Anyone that interrupted him was considered a nuisance and was glared at until they left. Our living room was his domain which he ruled over with an iron fist. A kingdom in which he was the tyrannical monarch, looking down on others from his throne of a couch, leaving only sporadically to go to work or to the fridge for another beer. Like any growing country, Brian’s kingdom became more technologically advanced as time progressed. The small television perched atop of a frumpy stand seemed to get larger by the month. As the screen grew, so did the stereo, then the gaming systems, and finally the remote control itself.What once was a simple living room over time transformed into Escondido’s largest electrical drain. Eventually the TV stand was phased out to accommodate a television almost the size of the wall itself. A second smaller screen was installed in the upper corner of the room, muted, and constantly set on ESPN. The sound system had more speakers than the Edwards Cinema, the Xbox contained about a million unbeatable scores, and all of it was controlled by one massive remote control.