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SNAP, CRACKLE, PLOP On the decline of pop culture‌ I turned on the Grammys the other night and couldn’t believe what our society views as worthy of winning awards.

Best Female Vocalist — realizing Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry were nominated in this category, I nearly threw up. Next up was a performance by the planet’s biggest ego (and the entertainment world’s smallest talent), Kanye West, who walked on stage when Beck won Album of the Year.

How can a guy who uses Auto-Tune to sing his awful song have anything negative to say to about a brilliant mind like Beck, who writes all of his own music and can play every instrument?

When Miley Cryus introduced “her bitch, Madonna,� who performed halfnaked at age 60, things went from bad to worse.

The only good news was that it took me only five minutes to realize I had just wasted five minutes of my life.

Other, less fortunate TV viewers devote

hours each day to watching this stuff.

Years ago, I worked for MTV, waaay back when the “M� actually stood for “music.� Now it’s Guess Who’s Pregnant, Watch What I Can Eat and brainkilling stuff like that. And don’t get me started on the Kardashians. Who knew commercializing a topic as sensitive as gender modification could rake in so many millions?

But maybe it’s the tail wagging the doggone lost days of pop culture.

The garbage masquerading as television that’s being streamed and broadcast and hashtagged these days exists because our society consumes it as ferociously as the trillion fast-food burgers we Americans jam down our throats every day.

We, the people, actually watch this anticultural manure, or at least enough of us do to drive its ratings and promote its existence.

Even our “news� is just a glorified

ratings game, hence the Al Sharptons of the world having a voice.

It’s no wonder older generations, who built this generation, think we young folk are a joke. iPhones, iPads and social media have their place in a modern world, but wouldn’t it be lovely if they could occasionally display real substance?

Here’s my recommendation — go outside, walk or run up a hill, learn to play guitar. Just do something, anything, other than sit there consuming the novacaine for the brain that’s coming across the airwaves and Interwebs.

When you come back inside, check out my website, craigsewing.com, tune-in to my TV show, The American Dream, or listen to my radio program, The Craig Sewing Show.

Kanye West will never be one of my guests — I promise.

Craig Sewing is a television and radio personality and consumer advocate who confronts polarizing issues head-on. Forever focused on cutting through the media clutter, he states his views bluntly, making friends and enemies along the way. Tune-in to Sewing’s intriguing and sometimes controversial broadcasts on The American Dream every Saturday at 10 a.m. on Cox or Time Warner Channel 4, and on The Craig Sewing Show weekdays at 6 p.m. on KCBQ 1170-AM to hear his engaging and enlightening conversations with the region’s political, business and finance luminaries. Follow Craig at Facebook.com/CraigSewing or on Twitter @craigsewing.

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FEATURE MARKET:

Carmel Valley 92130

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(January 2015 data) Number of homes for sale: 124 Number of homes sold: 27 Highest price: $2,995,000 Lowest price: $265,000 Median home price: $969,000 Sales were down in the 92130 zipcode in 2014 with a total of 769 properties selling, while in 2013, there were 839, which is a decrease of around 8%. However prices remained decent and still went up over the course of the year. The average in 2013 was $899,681 while in 2014 it was $976,703 for an increase of about 8.6% overall.

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Listen to Kurt on The Craig Sewing Show Tuesday, March 17, at 6 p.m. on KCBQ 1170 AM and watch him on The American Dream on Saturday, March 21, at 10 a.m. on Cox or Time Warner Channel 4.

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