andy rooney

andy rooney is retiring. but his impact on society will be forever felt.

rooney was doing what people on the internet do all the time way before there was an internet. you can't find a corner of the internet that is free from complaints, most over things that are trivial and probably not worth the effort or energy to complain about.

most blogs are just some sorta telling of things mundane. blogs rarely break new ground or push envelopes. most blogs are observations on things other people wouldn't care about all by themselves. thanks to your blog though, they now might care about it... for 20 seconds or so.

this is andy rooney. this is all he's ever done on 60 minutes. for those last few minutes of every episode, he sat at his cluttered desk in his cluttered office and chose a brand new topic to bitch about.

if andy rooney were 23 years old or so at this moment in time, he'd probably never leave his mom's basement. he'd be too preoccupied with trolling the internet and letting anyone who'll read know what isn't cool in his eyes.

there's a little bit of andy rooney in all of us. the internet has given us all an open forum to bitch about stuff. every time we bitch about anything on the internet, we're only doing it so others can read. you wouldn't post on facebook/twitter/google+/wherever if there was no one else on it to read it. and every time you do that, you're walking down a very beat up and abused path that was at some point trail blazed by the likes of rooney.

but there's a difference between any of us and andy rooney. rooney made a career out of it. rooney gets paid to be a troll. people on the internet not only complain for free, but most of the time anyone who reads whatever it is they're complaining about are saying to themselves, "i wish this crybaby would shut the fuck up."

i've read blogs that complain about rooney recently. and the authors of these posts don't see the hypocrisy. i've read stuff like:

thank god he's gone. we don't have to hear him bitch anymore.

nobody cares what he talks about.

he's out of touch. what gives him the right to complain all the time?

i read stuff like this on the internet!! imagine that!! bitch about rooney all you want. in fact the more you bitch about him, the more you're just ripping off his routine and as they say, 'imitation is the highest form of flattery.'

thanx for the bitching andy rooney. don't worry, there's a world full of people willing to carry on the tradition. it won't die with you. you lit the match that resulted in a fire that billy joel would write a song about.