This is the character at the center of the New York Lottery’s ad campaign, “Little Bit o’ Luck.” I understand that he’s “little,” but who the hell thinks this guy is “lucky?” He’s short, bald, blind, and has a head that’d make Joseph Merrick shutter. I’d only support the lottery if I knew my money would go to help people with his condition.
I’m a writer living in New York. This means that, very rarely, I can impress someone at a cocktail party in a southern state. But, mostly, it just means that I walk around with lots of negative opinions about people, places, and things, encountered in everyday life, that will never find themselves published anywhere. I don’t think you need to be a “writer in New York,” to feel the same way.
Therefore, in honor of all those caustic remarks and long-winded tirades that we keep to ourselves, I’ve begun TheRantRace.com
TheRantRace.com will be a site, generated by user-content, and fueled by frustration. Because nothing is quite as cathartic as exposing the idiocy of our bosses, the shortcomings of our loved ones, or the fallacies of an ad-campaign that - once again - employed a talking animal, I invite you to use the TheRantRace.com as a forum for that frustration. Are you a screenwriter, who’d like to share your thoughts on the latest trailer for “Beverly Hills Chihuahua?” Did you just receive a flagged, internal memo from the corporate overlords at your company that’s driving you crazy? Anything and everything that makes your blood boil, (letters, photos, spam, voice-mail messages) send to TheRantRace@gmail.com.
Obviously, this site may be driven by negativity, but don’t forget the positive (and often hilarious) experience of sharing one’s indignation with the world. We may hate the guy who’s dripping sweat on us during our ride to work, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t love to read about the JV baseball coach who ruined his baseball career. TheRantRace.com is about living life with a mischievous eye towards everything that annoys us and knowing that just because life isn’t perfect, doesn’t mean it can’t be funny. We may hate lots of things, but we’ll never hate complaining about any of them.
Yours in annoyance,
TheRantRace.com
Rant
pronunciation: \ˈrant\
— rant·er noun — rant·ing·ly \ˈran-tiŋ-lē\ adverb
Function: noun
Date: 1649
1 a: a bombastic extravagant speech
b: bombastic extravagant language
2 dialect British : a rousing good time