Damn! My Chance At Reality Show Stardom Is Lost

One of my many claims to fame is winning the Rolling Stone College Journalist of the Year award for Entertainment, thanks to a profile of Philip Glass. (I also was a finalist in the criticism category for a piece on the sudden explosion of hit singles on the album charts, an 80s phenomenon now taken to a new level by High School Musical.) Now Rolling Stone is turning that annual contest into a reality series. Suffice to say, if they were casting that show, I probably wouldn't have made the cut (actually, a gay conservative might have had some appeal to them). I can't help thinking my one chance at TV stardom was blown over bad timing. If only I were still in college....