People,

The loyal readers among you know that I try not to get too serious in this journal, but today I feel that I need to address an important issue - namely the total mind-fuck that the almost always good Real World sucks balls this year and the always sucky Real World/Road Rules Challenge is awesome. WTF?

I mean, the Real World is stone cold terrible this year. The token hottie just isn't that hot, the token gay guy is snippy enough but not at all compelling, the token dumb guy is just dumb and there's a bunch of people whose names I still don't know depite watching a number of episodes.

Message to MTV: bring back the Vegas cast! All vapid hot people having sex all the time, god damn it! You can't go back to the days of Eric Nies and Alabama Julie. You've destroyed our innocence, now give us the soft-core porn we've come to expect.

The RW/RR Challenge, however, is a totally different story. I'm running out of space, so I can't go into everything I love about this season. I'll just list a few major points...

- How hot has Rachel from the second New York Real World become? Dag.

- Admit it, weren't you a little glad when Trishelle, the token hottie, took the digger that caused her currently swollen eyes and bruised face?

- I like that the gauntlet frequently requires batacca battles. On a side note, who thought those things were a good and healthy toy for elementary school boys to have in gym?

- Of course the main thing that is great about this show is just how seriously D-list celebrities take themselves, their status as D-list celebrities and games like hang-by-your-ankles-over-a-pool-until-you-fall-in-a-humiliating-manner.

The old axiom is still true, you can never feel bad about yourself while there's MTV...