Yesterday was a very busy day. Due to the fact that the 2012 New York Golden Gloves tournament is in full swing, I have been busy helping to make sure that my friends who are fighting are very well prepared. That includes sparring with them, coaching and giving motivational speeches. Yesterday was no exception. I woke up early and headed to the boxing gym to help out a friend who is actually fighting later tonite. Later on in the day, I had a sparring session set up with me and another friend who fights next week. We ended up sparring and working on drills for 8 rounds. We then got out of the ring and did some strengthening exercises. When that was done, I had to run over to meet with Ulises, my writing partner. We had to go over the edits in the second draft of a screenplay we worked on together and then register it. We will be hosting a reading of the screenplay soon and you will be invited.

I came home, tired as hell and plopped down on the couch, ready to watch some TV to  help me decompress. As I was flipping throught the channels, I came across ABC’s The Bachelor. This is a show that starts out with 25 attractive women vying for the love and ultimately, marital bliss with one man; the bachelor. I think of shows in the past such as, ‘Flavour of Love’, ‘Rock of Love’ and ‘I love New York’. I wonder what the motivation is behind people who come on TV to find love. I know the producers are motivated by money. ‘Flavour of Love’ was VH1′s highest rated show for the first few seasons. The amount of advertising revenue that these shows bring in is nuts! Within 5 minutes of watching the contestants being introduced, a bunch of them start crying and proceed to fight with each other over a guy or girl that they don’t even know. The amount of crying that goes on in these shows, both male and female, makes me wonder whether the contestants are doing so because they lost love or the fact that their 15 minute window of fame is shutting faster than the legs on a nun.

Just as in other romantic-duel shows, there was a lot of crying going in The Bachelor. I decided to write about the show, so I did further research online to get more information about the show. What I was exposed to was much more crying. I realized that in all the years that the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchises have been on TV, there has never been a black bachelor or bachelorette. Hmmmmm….Black people need love too or should I say black people need fame too. Unfortunately, that is not what this post is about though. Just something for you to think about while you go about your day. We’ll keep that topic for another conversation.

I believe that the girls were crying because they had to kiss and throw themselves at a dude who they wouldn’t even look at twice on the street. He would not even get the time of day, let alone see that chick, Courtney’s boobs.  This dude looks like Rafa Nadal’s uglier, much less manly, brother. Flava Flav and ‘New York’ were both trolls as well. The girls on The Bachelor must have been thinking, “Damn, I kissed him, I let him touch my body and I don’t even get a rose? What is my life coming to? My life is over?” Booo hoo hoooooo!!!!!” This is obviously one man’s opinion and as I said in a previous post, ‘Opinions are like assholes, everyboy has one’.

Be that as it may, there has to be something said about how far people would go for fame. This begs the question, Would you kiss a troll to get on TV? The question should actually be would you kiss a troll, fight with other girls or guys, swim in mud, and drink bull semen for a chance at fame and fortune? Jennifer Hudson’s husband allowed ‘New York’ to call him ‘Punk’ on the love-duel show, ‘I Love New York’. It paid off because Jennifer Hudson saw love through all of his buffoonery. And now he is paid!!!!!!!!!

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