Scribbling in the Silence

I was taking one of my breaks, and I decided to channel-surf for a while. I hit upon ESPN and there was a show which turned out to be the NFL draft preview. Now, I like sports as much as the next male, which is quite a bit. I don't mind the anchors and the guys who do the weekly analysis. But there is just something I can't stand about Mel Kiper, Jr. I mean, the guy basically created for himself a career based on only two days a year. His entire reason for existing in the ESPN universe is to do draft analysis. Where he thinks someone will be drafted, who he thinks a team should draft and then once the draft is over, who did a good job and who dropped the ball, so to speak. That's it. Admittedly he has to watch a lot of college football to figure this out, but he doesn't do weekly analysis or anything else like that. He only concerns himself with how it impacts the draft. And he gets paid how much to do this?

Unbelievable.

This, if nothing else, tells you how truly obsessed with the details that a lot of fans are.

Suffice it to say, I turned off the tv after about ten minutes of that drivel and got back to writing. If anyone around here is going to be obsessed with details, useless and otherwise, it'll be me obsessing over which details of my worldbuilding to include in my actual prose.