The carb and nic addictions are the most obvious and urgent to address.

But there’s also the kinds of media I’m hooked on from the political to the pure storytelling.

I share with you here:

an episode and a good one of one of my favorite shows, a fine slice of junkie cheesecake.

It stars Martin Milner and I like him fine. But his character is a poor little rich boy, and he is the one that owns that iconic Corvette.

His partner, his bro, in the first couple of seasons was George Maharis as Buzz Murdock.

Murdock’s character is a hardcore prole, and thus I find him more relatable on some deep class level.

The background in both pictures is full of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, and of course that really works for me too.

The writing in this one is simple and flawed, but we do get a real honest rapacious capitalist villain, a true American who at one point says that the essence of real manhood is never ever having Enough.

Which is exactly what we’re brainwashed to think is the correct attitude for a man in this culture, in a thousand subtle ways from the time we are born.

But in this one, that guy is the bad guy, and we are offered the alternative of Tod and Buzz as real men who are homeless, transients. Hardworking hunter-gatherer nomads (though ironically in this brave new world, they are the hunted) when they can find work, and paragons of a higher ethics even in between jobs.

Living in a van, as it were, down by the river–that thing Chris Farley taught us to mock, right before his arteries exploded.

Oversimplified or not, I can’t not like that. Maybe it will be the same for you.