Richie Sambora Wants To Be My Friend

lol

So I'm on Facebook (you should come by and say 'hi'). This morning, I get an email from the bots over there:

Richie added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Richie in order for you to be friends on Facebook.

After I finished laughing, and forwarded it on to my good friend Willow, who I know could always use a laugh, I thought on it. Do any of us really "know" these guys? I'm sure the answer for a few of you anonymous readers out there is "yup", and that's great. I mean, I know these guys have lots of friends and acquaintances, and business associates, but I mean us fans: the nameless, faceless hordes.

So to my NFH readers, I'm sure some of you are nodding effusively and saying "hell YEAH I know them" -- you only THINK you know them. Sure you know their vitals, some details about their families, friends and pets. You know how they take their coffee, or wine or drink of choice. You know things that make them happy, what pisses them off.

But do you really KNOW them.

Do you know how they react to a sappy Hallmark commercial at the end of a tough day?

Do you know how many times they stop to thank whatever God it is they pray to?

Do you know of their (non-paparazzi'd) struggles and how they deal with them?

Really, when you stop and think about it, we know WAY too much about these people, but we don't know them at all. I mean, for me, if I look at some of my IRL friends, I have no idea how they take their coffee. Or if they even drink it.

Anyway, then my brain started to hurt, and I felt all shallow and so switched gears to think about how I was going to respond to "Richie" and his friend request.

Do I really believe that this is our Richie on Facebook? Absolutely not -- I'm not delusional. Psycho? Hell yeah. Delusional? No.

Is that going to stop me from writing on his wall and inviting him to taste my porn and tell me if I have his technique right?

Nope :)

~ Hath