rubinville

I just got back from an audition for a desk-based internet news show. It went pretty well, although I�ve learned not to hold my breath or I�ll just end up with massive brain damage. Anyway, they brought us into a room ten at a time and then we read from some cue cards. After we finished they asked us if we read blogs. The guy sitting next to me turned to the girl on the other side of him and said, �What are blogs?� She paused for a second and said, �They�re like these internet things.�

That�s a word for word account, directly transcribed into my notebook.

I found it interesting, because first of all, does anyone in their 20�s not know what a blog is? I�m sure plenty of people don�t read them, but it seems like you should at least know of them. More interestingly though, was her response, because she clearly knew what blogs were and somehow was afraid to tell the guy because it might give him a leg up in the audition. Priceless stuff, truly.

To top it all off he was black and she was asain. Somehow I doubt it would�ve been the two of them slugging it out as the finalists.

That�s not to say a black guy or an asian girl couldn�t have been selected. I�m just saying I just doubt that these specific two would�ve been the finalists. They�re just too far apart on the diversity scale to be the final two people. Isn�t the exact opposite of a black guy an asian girl? I think I read that in Stuff Magazine. Or was it Newsweek? No, no, I think it was Black Tail Magazine.

Oh, who am I kidding? Neither one of them had a chance, anyway. Everyone knows that white people are by far the best cue card readers.

On the way to the audition I bumped into the only person on the planet Earth that I truly hate. I�ve got plenty of people I dislike, but I truly despise this vile piece of dung. For some reason though, I shook his hand when he put it out to shake mine. I should�ve left him just hanging there, but I didn�t, and now I feel gross from the whole interaction. Damn those four years I took at the Canterbury Manners Institute of Oxford.

Well, there�s always next time. You live and learn.

(FYI, the picture above is of the TORE desk at Ikea, which retails for $169.00. It�s not quite a news desk, but it�s a pretty good deal.)