Stuff I Miss: TV Guide

When I was younger (hell...even now), television ruled my life. I am not ashamed to say it, it helped raise me and I love it dearly.
My Grandparents subscribed to TV Guide (like any good grandparents should) and when I would go over there on weekends, the first hour or so would be dedicated to reading the TV Guide like a Bible. First I would go through and write down every show that I wanted to watch that weekend while I was there so that I wouldn't have to reference the guide anymore. I wish I could find one of those little sheets just to see the kind of crap I was watching back then.
After the list was compiled, I'd read through each evening to see if they had descriptions of what my upcoming episodes would be about. Even back then I was obsessed with spoilers, like it really matters what scheme Wesley was going to get Mr. Belvedere involved in that week..but I can't help myself. I'm very impatient, it's one of my few flaws. ;)
The most coveted issues of the TV Guide were of course, the Fall Previews. These were the issues that told you what new shows were coming (I still remember reading the preview for Full House and Blossom), and what old shows were coming back. See, back then, before the 'internet', TV Guide was one of the only means of learning this shit. It was a necessity...well, for saddos like me it was.
My Dad used to collect the fall previews since like, the 1970's, and I knew where he kept them so I would go up and read them all on my weekend visits. There was something comforting about reading them, and the fact that they're gone now really makes me sad. All this nice, nostalgic, comforting stuff from my youth is disappearing and being replaced with cold, shitty digital garbage and I'm just not ready to say good bye to it all, even if it might be cool and convenient. Fuck, look at what means I'm using right now to convey this to you. I'm such a hypocrite. I think they even still make them in the US, but WHY WOULDN'T THEY? Fuck. Either way, I miss reading TV Guide. A lot. I doubt they'd even be able to make a TV Guide anymore with the bajillion channels there are now. It'd be like a phone book. Damn you World, and your love of excess! But how can I really complain, when now there's just more to love?