I just watched this past Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment about Andy Rooney, and it totally bummed me out! Not because he’s leaving the show, but because I thought I had an exclusive on the whole “write a funny and honest opinion piece about something puzzling/incorrect/unfair” bit. I mean, he did a segment about the cotton in pill bottles! I totally wrote that down on my potential topics list, but then decided against it because I think the cotton is to prevent the pills from breaking.
My favorite part of the entire interview was Rooney’s response to Safer’s question about not answering fan mail: “Who would want to answer an idiot who had the bad sense to write me a letter? It’s a certain kind of person who writes you, and they’re not my kind of people usually.” Even though you’ve gotten increasingly batty and disorganized over the years, for this comment alone, I love you Andy Rooney.
And don’t you worry sir, I’m not going to stop writing critical perspectives any time soon. I’ll carry the torch for us curmudgeons, and you keep rocking those crazy-ass eyebrows.
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