Richard Lawson, the Bard of Reality TV

Richard Lawson is quite simply my favorite living writer.  Lawson writes for Gawker, a media blog, and dare I say is the most talented, most redeeming thing about the entire site.  He writes recaps of all the Real Housewives series and weaves detailed and bizarre fantasies into his narrative.  If you haven't watched the episode, you might be confused when he goes off on a tangent about Countess LuAnn's (Countess Crackerjack's) trashy past life.  The nicknames are ever changing and funnier than the last as demonstrated by his recent recap of the RHNJ.

Next we moved over to the Manzo's. Albie, Caroline 2: The Revenge (Caroline's slouchy daughter), and Failure were all hangin' out in the kitchen, doing some pre-Ham Game stretching, when there was a piercing whine and in walked a short, skinny dynamo that was introduced as Failure's best friend. He is basically the rattish Peter Pettigrew to Failure's sniveling Tom Riddle.

 There was a period in time when Lawson left to work at tv.com.  Thankfully, things went badly, as he soon returned and continued to bring light and humor into our sad bleak existences.  Honestly, you don't have to watch the shows to enjoy his writing.  His imagination is beautifully universal.