On One Little Tiny Thing That Makes Me Happy.

or,

It’s not my girlfriend, but it’s awesome!

I am known for being a rather brazenly obvious Aaron Sorkin worshiper. My life is in the crapper right now, only a couple of things in it are good at all. I am unemployed, nearly broke, pretty unhappy and nearly crazy, but something happened tonight that made me fist pump my hands in the air with joy. Literally. No one saw it because Jess and Ben don’t like Studio 60 as much as I do. That’s not to say that they don’t like it, but Jess is sick and Ben got his cast on today and that’s a long day for those two, so they were fast asleep on the couch when it happened. Plus, it’s safe to say very, very, VERY few people like Aaron Sorkin’s work as much as I do. I am a little creepy and weird about, and even I know it. Anyway, here’s the great thing that happened to me.

I found out that Aaron and I think alike.

“It’s Toxic. It’s bad crack in the school yard ….. It’s patently disgusting. It appeals to the very worst in our nature, and whoever airs it will play a measurable role in subverting our national culture. It doesn’t belong on anyone’s air.”

We both hate reality TV! I’ve been saying it forever, but it’s just nice to know my hero thinks it too. The vast majority of Reality television is bad for you. It encourages the worst aspects of human nature, it nurtures our vices as if they were virtues, and it teaches people, especially young people, lessons that we need to be desperately fighting against right now. I think so, and it turns out Aaron thinks so too. It is true that no group of people, things, ideas, societies, religions, genre of TV shows, whatever, is always 100% right or wrong. I like Project Runway and Top Chef when they highlight the creative drive in individuals. I like it when The Biggest Loser encourages people to change, even save, their own lives. They just shouldn’t have to vote each other off. All life is not, in fact, a competition, no matter what your overbearing father and/or high school football coach told you. From time to time we all gotta pull together, we gotta help each other out. From time to time the Alliance we need to form needs to have only one label.

“Humanity”.

Aaron and I think we should strive to be better as a whole, not better than each other.

He let Sting play the lute on TV, but whatever.