Dear Eric Alvarez of WZTV

Dear Eric Alvarez,

We have never met, but I've watched you since you did the news for Solo Nashville, local spanish syndicate. You brought me pressing details about the growing Latin community that I am a part of, apparently, based not on my nationality, but my location.

Now you're on WZTV Fox 17. And I see you pretty much every night. If it isn't a package you shot earlier, its some live story or on-location shot. Being a former collegiate and now wanna-be news person myself, I am extremely impressed by your dedication to this city and to your career. During the snow and ice storm last month, you ran a total of three stories in a single nightly broadcast. I know because I, like most other sane people, was at home on my couch bored out of my mind. Yet you were running around getting scoops and leads and reactions shots and videos of kids sliding down hills on trashcan lids. Twitter says you often eat in the newsroom and I wonder about this.

For whom did you come back to this city? Why are you here if you had a great run at KNBC in Los Angeles? Could it be that like me, you remember that this city is in the mid to early stages of multicultural explosion? That there is something special here that, on certain levels, not even LA can compete with? Or perhaps it's a girl. That's my suspicion. There is NO reason why someone as perfectly adorable as you would move back from LA to Nashville without having a reason like loyalty or love.

Speaking of which, I think we would have a lot in common. It is unfortunate that your life is eaten by your job. Were I to see you out somewhere, even at a gas station or a deli, I would probably find some quirky, meaningless remark to say, solidifying my overture that we continue talking. That you take my number. That we have coffee. That we watch a terrible movie. That I make fun of your non-regional diction. That you forget I don't have a masters in Journalism. That I forget you work for a conservative news source. That you read this post. That...
Well. You get the point.

So anyway. In the meantime, thanks for making my night. You're pretty cool. And I'm glad you graduated from Solo Nashville. I can understand significantly more than 40% of what you say now.