Rooney was crotchety, sour and sarcastic – and we loved it. Even when he struck a too-raw nerve – as he sometimes did while opining about subjects like race, sexuality and suicide – his public generally accepted his explanation and apology, and tuned in for his next rant. We tolerated Rooney even when we disagreed with his views… but we liked him best when he expressed the super-curmudgeonly version of our own feelings. Feelings like confusion over why some "art" is considered "art"…
…And frustration with ever-changing technology…
…And the fact that today's music is NOT like the music we grew up with.
The world has been a much less curmudgeonly place for the past year. We can rant about annoying stuff ourselves… but our rants just don't feel quite as good as Andy Rooney's did. Written by Linnea Crowther
