The Home Stretch

Late this afternoon, as I was watching last night’s episode of Elementary on my DVR and fast-forwarding through one of the commercial breaks, something purely coincidental—and therefore weird—happened. Regrettably, I overshot the point at which I should have stopped and pressed play when the program returned. This means I had to go back, and I retreated too far. (This happens to me a lot; it can be maddening.) The strange thing is that once I rewound and hit play, I recognized that the Obama campaign ad unfolding on my DVR was almost exactly in synch with the same commercial playing live (and loudly) on my dad’s TV in the living room. Cool but kinda creepy, right?