ManWithPez

Patridge in a pear tree. Get it? First day...Ah, screw you!

Well, the first full day of ManWithPez has passed, and with only one major social snafu!  More on that later.  What I had in mind, the day that my website finally opened was that I’d have enough posts that I could coast through the day and not give it a second thought.  Well, I was fucked from the beginning, wasn’t I?

So, here’s what happened.  I had planned (not really…I was totally caught offguard by having my own website…no shit!) to write enough posts to get through my first day, so I could sit back and just drink, drink, drink.  But life, like Texas Hold’em, rarely deals you what you want(Thank you Kenny Rogers for all the wisdom of your years!).  First off, I ran out of cigarettes.  Fine, think what you want of me, but, I smoke.  I can’t drink and not smoke, so that was a thorn in my side.  Secondly, like any moron who has just opened a pop media site, I panic and thought I didn’t have enough content.  So, in overcompensation, I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote…and I said…nothing!  That’s right.  That’s how I feel about my first day.  I didn’t say anything meaningful.

After roughly thirty people hit my site, I decide to link my favorite story to one of my favorite sites.  Unknown to me (and people, please…read those post guidelines, it can save you a lot of trouble) you can’t do that.  One of my techs emails me and says I’m about to get slapped.  So, while I try to delete a link to my Cars of the Vampire Killers story, he reposts it.  Then, the moderators there delete both posts.  We were baffled, because if it was self-linking, well, I’d written them an apology email and asked them to delete my entry.  Turns out that wasn’t the problem.  In my Cars of the Vampire Killers story, I called Spike a prick and an asshole.  Which they designated character bashing, and didn’t want that on their site. (I didnt feel bad about it until ThatCostumeGirl got home and told me how many people I could have had if it’d only stayed up)  Unfortunately for them, enough people autolinked to the story from their Livejournals that people still got to see the article through them, despite what they thought of it.  Underhanded, yes, but, hey, I gave the people what they wanted!  I got an extra boost later in the evening from Bonniegrrl and Poppy Z. Brite retweeting it, and to both of these ladies, I have to extend a hearty handshake and a laurel. (Heh…I referenced Blazing Saddles in a thank you!)

And Boy Howdy, did they come to look!  I didn’t think that particular article would be that popular, but people the world over have come to give it a view!  It isn’t that well done.  Like I’ve said before, I have the coding skills of a rabid animal.  I wrote the thing, put the pictures in, and it all turned to shit.  Hey, I’m glad!  Look at me!  I wrote about cars!  And, if this website isn’t a cry for attention, I don’t know what is.  At least I’m honest about it!

So, that’s the story of my first day.  Eventually, I got both cigarettes and booze into me, which is the state I’m writing in now!  For further reference see my earlier post about Drinking Tradition.  I’ll tell you this, and then I’ll leave you alone.  Life takes you in strange places.  I was certain, when I posted that car article that no one would give a shit.  I guess that proves what you can do with a good title.

I don’t know about a good title, but, unfortunately, my last name is the sound a dog makes.  No shit. So Sir, or Lord (insert dog noise here) just won’t work.

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