Text Box: The WeWrite Book Has Annoying become the New Cool? A slightly different view on some of our new quasi TV mentors. Text Box: Chapter 1 Rachael Ray—The most annoying individual on the face of the earth! I really don’t mean to pick on Rachel Ray, actually I do, but the list of extremely annoying TV personalities is becoming endless. Yeah, there have always been TV people that pushed the envelope of whinny annoyance to a new level, but lately that bone chilling type of persona has become more of the norm then the rare and bearable occurrence. Sure I can just as easily turn the channel, but for those of us with no life, TV is an escape that should not be interrupted by this onslaught of ADD – preachy – know it all – dingbats! I guess I could have started with Stacy London or even Larry Kudlow (more about those 2 later), but the queen of all goodie 2 shoe annoyances has got to be Rachel Ray. From her 30 minute meals to her $40 a day eating forays – just how much more do I have to take of that never ending perky smile and god help us up-beat attitude. Nobody can be that happy all the time and not be on drugs. Well maybe you can be if you’re raking in millions from annoying millions. Now her smile is plastered all over my Ritz Cracker boxes and I have had to switch to Wheat Thins! Fine, I can be a whinny cry baby most of the time too. Guess I’m just jealous because she’s getting paid for what I give away for free. And those 30-minute meals – bullshit! Have you really ever tried to make one? It can take you hours if not days just to prep one. She’s got her entourage putting it all together for her. Every item has been researched, bought, and placed exactly where RR can grab them with the least movement. You thought she was doing this on the fly? lol Then you have to cook it. I’m sure that for days they’ve had a group of people testing and retesting, timing and retiming, until ever aspect is perfectly choreographed within the 30-minute segment. And please – let’s not even discuss the clean up. Do I hear at least 2 hours for the mess she makes! But is this really a critical tirade on her, or is it a more of a macro call on society and how we view ourselves, in general. If we go back a few years, Martha.. Martha.. Martha would have been at the top of the list. But even at her pre-jail peak, she was never the loud, overly obnoxious pain that the current set of celeb mentors are. Yeah she was, and still is, the ultimate know it all; but it was never in such an overbearing way. Is it just the decibel level that makes the current ones so awful? Maybe, but I think it goes a whole lot deeper. The answer reaches into our very souls. We are all searching for that endless need to be heard and recognized. Obviously some more then others. Mere accomplishments are not enough anymore. We need to be on the news and talked about endlessly; or all our fame, successes, and money are meaningless. “Cramer!” Do I have to say any more? I think not.