WTF This is About

This site was originally meant to be funny. I swear. I meant it to be my own personal space where I could do piss takes on the world around me. But, as society has evolved, so has the direction of this site.

In the beginning…

You may not remember this news item, but for an entire day America was glued to our TV screens watching a foil saucer shaped balloon fly across the Colorado sky. You see, we all had been led to believe that a little 6-year old boy had climbed inside his family’s “science project”, which mistakenly got launched into the skies and flew for miles. Yes, even out here in the Philadelphia region, folks stared at their tv screens hoping this child would be ok. There was a TV in the common break room in the high rise office building in Center City where I worked at the time, and many of us were getting zero work done out of concern for this child none of us knew.

Spoiler alert: The balloon landed fine, the little boy wasn’t inside of it, and although there were tense moments where folks thought maybe he had fallen during it’s flight, he was found safe at home. Turns out he had crawled up into a little play loft his father had built for him and his siblings above the garage, and simply fell asleep. When the balloon came untethered, and drifted off over the neighborhood and up into the skies over Fort Collins, CO everyone assumed he was inside: Because he had been playing around it earlier, and no one could find him.

In the following weeks load of stories came out, many of them hinted at the idea that the father had staged the whole thing as a publicity stunt, and he was lambasted all over the news, the web, social media. Everywhere. And every time the poor dude opened his mouth, he seemed uniquely talented in making things even worse.

…meanwhile..

Do y’all remember Jon and Kate? Jon and Kate Gosselin had been everywhere on our TV screens for years. They had a reality TV show, that I admittedly never watched, called “Jon & Kate Plus 8” that was all about their lives with their eight children. The show ran for many many seasons, and the Gosselins and their kids were everyfuckingwhere. Morning shows. Evening shows. Talk shows. And because they were local to the Philly area, they were even all over the radio. So even if you were like me and didn’t even watch “Jon & Kate Plus 8“, you just couldn’t escape their influence.

Then the whole thing came crashing down. There were investigations by the state about child labor issues around the 24/7 reality show using these 8 kids, accusations of infidelity, arguments that turned into full blown domestic disputes, divorce filings and fights over who gets what. Jon moved out, Kate tried to keep the show going on her own, etc etc etc.

But through it all, all I heard was that Jon was the bad guy in this. Maybe he was. Maybe he wasn’t. Maybe it was two grown ups caught up in fame and fortune getting full of themselves. I didn’t care, because I didn’t watch the show.

…so anyway..

I was toying with the idea of making a site, separate from any other site I had, that would just make fun of shit like this. I would talk about it with friends, throw around ideas and concepts, and slowly the whole thing took form.

But, I had no idea what to call this new site.

I was at the grocery store with a friend, and just that morning had heard a horrific news story about a man who had been arrested for physically abusing his daughter. I wont go into details, but the situation was so bad the man committed suicide in jail rather than face a trial, and now he shares a cell in hell with all the other child abusing fuckers that went before him.

And there, in the checkout line I see a magazine…it was one of those entertainment rags like “People” or “Us” or “Fanboy Weekly” or whatever…and on the cover were two pictures side by side: Jon Gosselin and Balloon Boy’s Dad. Under a headline that read, “Which of these two is the WORST father in America?“.

I pointed and exclaimed to my friend, “Really? Really? We live in a world where people are truly horrible to children and THESE TWO are at the top for the worst? What the fucks next?”

And my friend said, “You say that a lot. That should be the name of your new site.”