Allow myself to introduce… myself.
I am, for all intents and purposes, The Jay. I have a formal name, I’m not hiding it, and I’m sure it will eventually come out, but for now I’m gonna go ahead and enjoy my anonymity for the four people who are reading this who aren’t my friends, family or mortal enemies (this means you Alex Smith… bitch). So… the blog. But first, some back story. Please excuse the repetition if you already know the history of this website.
Back in March of 2000 I launched a humor site devoted to all things pop culture. See at the time blogs weren’t “in”, they were populated by computer geeks, sci-fi shut-ins and weird social cliques. And I loved them. I was one of the original Pamie readers. I can name the 2001 Diarist.com award winners for all four quarters, and I was a TWoP fan back when they were Mighty Big TV, formerly Dawson’s Desktop. Basically, I wanted me some of that. But I never really wanted to write about my boring life. I was much more interested in bombing on celebrities and yapping about trashy entertainment. So I wrote humor columns instead of blog posts. And some people even enjoyed them.
So for three years I wrote my little funny pop culture pieces and all was well with TheJay.com. Then, based more on attrition and laziness then any financial or traffic-related problems, I took the site down. I needed a break from the internet writing game to focus on the more lucrative field of… not doing much of anything. It was quite the brilliant decision.
Flash forward two and a half years and all of a sudden blogs have revolutionized the world. Everyone and their mother have a blog now. Pamela Anderson has a blog and she can’t even spell. And wouldn’t you know it people are now making money and gaining fame for trashing pop culture on their blogs. Like I’ve been saying, TheJay.com was ahead of its time. So after much discussion and turmoil, here it is again… TheJay.com, no longer a low-level entertainment journalism-oriented site, instead a high flying entertainment blog site. Nothing in the world can stop me from 10,000 unique visitors a month!
If you decide you like my particular brand of humor (excessive adjectives, an obsession with the movie Rad, and a general disdain for all things high brow), I promise you a regular spell of good reading times. I will mix it up, some days it will be celebrity gossip, other days a movie or TV review, and on occasion I might just write about my life.
Oddly, that’s what I’ve been missing the most. I never really wanted to take down the site because I loved having a forum to air my thoughts about whatever was happening in the entertainment world. I missed being able to post a 2,000 word diatribe on why Temptation Island was the best reality show ever. Or to do a multi-part piece on the merits of Bruce Willis. I just missed writing about pop culture. And since I first went off air, the world has gone nuts. I can’t tell you how hard it was to sit through the Lindsay Lohan Era and not sign off on it (Just between me and you, I’m fully loving this girl. Just pure, quality entertainment. I haven’t seen the wheels come off a star so spectacularly since Gretchen Mol flashed her nips on Vanity Fair). There was just too much stuff happening for me to stay quiet. Well that’s all gonna change now.
Every day (or so) I’m gonna be waxing on the state of entertainment. It’s gonna be biting, it’s gonna be honest, and god willing, it’s gonna be funny. So welcome to the new era of TheJay.com. Thank you for coming, thank you for reading, and enjoy the free jokes.
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