GASPE, QUEBEC -- "My name is David, and I have been clean for three or four days.  I haven't read... or even thought about a newspaper in that time.  I feel... I feel... GREAT!"

Of course it used to be much more remote.  I remember a seven or eight hour drive to get here as a kid, on secondary roads.  Now it's mostly highway and just under six.  And it used to be that we didn't get newspapers for a few days after they were published, now it's the next day.

So, I have been going cold turkey.  No newspapers.

Amazing.

Okay, so we have wifi in the house... and that means high-speed internet. 

So, I do know that there was an earthquake in LA about an hour ago.

But no newspapers!

And I guess we do have satellite TV, so I can watch Detroit and Edmonton TV channels.  But there's not much on and I barely watch it...

It really is remote.

I guess we do have a radio too.

Oh, forget it!

/df