Writers gotta write

So I have 40 minutes left on my lunch break, and I want to ramble.

• Have you ever had a love affair with a sports team?  For the life of me, I can't differentiate between "being in love" and what I feel for this Phillies team.  It feels eerily similar.  And it's not a sexual, homo thing.  It's like I just want to wrap my arms and legs around a 3-dimensional Phillies logo and squeeze it until it the words look jumbled. Mr. Z and I have texted each other multiple times in the past few weeks after the Fightins amazed us again and again. We always write, "I love this team". We all do. LET'S GO EAT!!
• For those in my generation who watched the WWE in the late '90s and, like me, lost interest in the past decade due to dull storylines and recycled gimmicks, there once again is a reason to spend your Monday nights watching RAW.  Some try to compare what CM Punk is doing to what Steve Austin did to usher in the "Attitude Era".  In a ESPN podcast I just listened to Punk dubbed this new time in WWE history as the "Reality Era".  He wants to show fans multiple sides of a wrestler's character instead of the traditional one-dimensional "Duke the Dumpster Drose" types.  The only way to draw back disillusioned fans is to remove the illusion altogether and show them what is "beyond the mat" and behind the individual characters.  CM Punk is doing just that, saving the WWE one match at a time.
• Snooki blew off my morning drive radio show this morning (The Opie and Anthony Show on XM Sirius).  Personally, I am indifferent to these no-talent HACKS, but these Jersey Shore DOLTS really grind my gears.  It blows my mind to think about the money these reproducible every-twentysomethings-at-the-jersey-shore are making, but when they start to turn into insolent pricks I start to get angry.  I know, it's not their fault that MTV picked up their show. And it's not their fault that my demographic chooses to watch boring nothings instead of doing anything else.  But who the hell are you, Snooki? What talent do you possess that makes you different from every other girl in the club? I tell my friends this all the time. I can walk into The Ocean Drive on any summer night and pull 4 Snookis, 5 Situations, and 12 Ronnies out of the crowd and interchange them onto that show with no discernible difference. But I challenge you to find 1 Louis C.K. or 1 Jimmy Rollins or 1 Taylor Swift AKA people with superior talent to normal human beings. They are the ones that deserve our attention in entertainment! The ones that can do things that we can't!!!!!
• I'm liking this rant thing, I think I might do it every week. Still have ten minutes left in my break.. peacee

- JD