To whom it may concern,
It seems like only a year three months and one week ago that I wrote my my first TVgasm post. 141 posts later, and I find myself writing my final post. Some good, some bad, some clever, some sad. And lord knows, I am going to miss coming up with headlines, which was always my favorite part of the process.
How did TVgasm and I find one another? Funny story...well not really, so I may lie a little at times to spice it up.
I first met J-Unit & B-Side a few years back when I was coerced into going to a party where I was told there would be cheap booze and even cheaper women. It was one of their famed Scorpion Bowl Parties. I remember I was introduced to these two college frat guys and immediately knew I would have nothing in common with them. Initially, I was trying to avoid new people and just talk to the people at the party I knew, but when the head count was done, and the head count of those I knew totaled a depressing "1," it became clear to me I was going to have to mingle with, eh hem, frat guys.
The first one I conversed with was J-Unit, as he was the man guarding the booze, and as we know, the man who controls the booze, is the man who controls my heart....only in a non-really-gay sounding way. He seemed nice enough, laughed at things I said, which had he a vagina to go with his bitch tits, would have probably gotten a flirtatious smile out of me. But alas, he hadn't anything to offer but booze and conversation. Quite frankly, that ain't bad. The conversation evolved from "How do you know so-and-so?" to "So...Purple...That's an interesting colour...Is this Kanye West?....Hey, what do you think air would taste like if you could taste it?"
Then along sauntered in an as yet unnamed, B-Side. Had I known then that he would one day be the Justin Timberlake of the blogworld, I probably wouldn't have pee'd on his toilet seat. Yes, it was me. Conversation was fine, party was great and these two won me over when I asked to throw some money in for the booze and J-Unit said, "It's the people who offer who don’t need to pay, its those other bastards who need to shell it out." The three of us became fast acquaintances who kinda saw each other from time to time and more often than not, remembered one another’s names.
One day B-Side and I were chatting, most likely about something completely superficial and benign, and then we got on the topic of reality TV. Suddenly the two of us were gabbing like a couple of pre-coked Lohans. I had no clue he was as big a tv whore as I. He then told me about some little blog he and J-Unit had if ever I wanted to add to it. I think at the time a good day was 100 hits. I thought," Sure, why not."
Initially, I tried the conventional recaps, and quickly discovered that just wasn’t my jive. A former stand-up comic, my humor is better in short form and TVgasm needed something different. I had fun being more of a creative guy on the site than a recapper. Weather it was Letters from Jesus, the story of a pig, or getting our first cease and desist order, I always had fun coming up with new things to say, new ways to say them and of course having a forum to put them out there.
With Lohan boobs, Cruise wooh's, Pat O'Brien hard and Rosie Retard along with the best written recaps, reviews and snark online, in a little over a years time, TVgasm has catapulted into the number one television weblog and I am proud to have been a part of it from the ground floor. TVgasm was always about bringing the readers into our living rooms as we watch the shows. Much of what you read on here is just a written echo of the things we say while watching the shows in the TVgasm office. Never was this more true than with our live blogging of Sping Break Shark Attack and of course, the craptastic Locusts. The 'gasm was my cyber couch, and you were all welcome to sit down and watch the shows at anytime.
I was hoping to make it through the end of Big Brother this season, but J-Unit tells me they need the parking spot for sg-dub.
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Comments (29)
I will miss your snark MYL, take it easy and good luck.
1 of 29 | Posted by maefarre | Posted on September 6, 2005 1:29 PM
Good Luck to you- You will be sadly missed.
2 of 29 | Posted by amygirl | Posted on September 6, 2005 1:40 PM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Will you still post comments? Miss u,
tv freak.
P.S.-LMAO at the pic of 'you'
3 of 29 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on September 6, 2005 1:51 PM
LOL great pic!
I'll miss your realword posts most of all.
But will always remember Shark Attack, Locusts, and Riding on the Bus with my sister.
4 of 29 | Posted by Michele | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:08 PM
Michele-
Ummm...yeah, this is kinda awkward. Umm, you see...the Real World...thats not me. yeah.
- MYL
5 of 29 | Posted by madeyoulaugh | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:16 PM
Wow. Lest the readers innundate my inbox with a flurry of "You-suck-and-don't-you-dare-take-away-my-MadeYouLaugh hatemail," it was all J-Unit's decision.
Just kidding. Though we've never met (The Gasm reaches far and wide and I haven't made it out to LA yet), I feel like I'm losing a friend. I have a feeling that you won't be able to fully stay away so I'll look forward to your snipes and gripes 'round these parts from time to time.
I'll always be the "New guy" and I'll always defer to the originals like MYL. (God, I can't help but think about when Keith and Dave picked off "The originals" like Beau and Alex and Amy and Toni and...)
Anyway, good luck dude and I still look forward to having a beer with you someday soon.
6 of 29 | Posted by sg-dub | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:17 PM
MYL, you will be missed. I loved the LOST recaps that you used to do. *sigh* And then there was the fun of the live blogs of Shark Attack and Locusts.
Fare thee well, "and may the four winds blow you home again." (Grateful Dead, Franklin's Tower)
7 of 29 | Posted by mountain girl | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:39 PM
daaaaaaamn....I just found this site like three weeks ago!! i semi teared up reading the farewell letter. this is going down in history with the phish breakup, graduating college, and taking my last bong hit. thanks for the laughs. good luck with everything, myl.
8 of 29 | Posted by in the now | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:50 PM
As if this week couldn't get any more horrific....
Best of luck to you madeyoulaugh, and thanks for ruining my day.
9 of 29 | Posted by Redhead | Posted on September 6, 2005 2:58 PM
Shit man. That blows. You were a good read, a funny dude, and have a way with words. Good luck in the future. Hope to see you in the comments from time to time.
10 of 29 | Posted by Mary | Posted on September 6, 2005 3:12 PM
madeyoulaugh, all I can offer up in the way of tribute is to say that you are one of the most-appropriately named writers on all of teh internets. All my best and don't be a stranger.
11 of 29 | Posted by Mike | Posted on September 6, 2005 3:24 PM
Aww say it ain't so! I will miss you MYL. You look sooo hot in that picture. I'm almost tempted to ask you to marry me.
12 of 29 | Posted by Deena | Posted on September 6, 2005 3:52 PM
You know I'll miss you, dude. Even if everyone thinks you're a girl.
-Lou
P.S. There's always a place for you over at SIGD, you lush.
13 of 29 | Posted by SorryIGotDrunk.com | Posted on September 6, 2005 3:53 PM
First Kayser gets voted off
Then he gets voted off AGAIN
and now MYL is leaving. I'm going to sit in the corner and suck my thumb now.
:(
You will be missed hugely!
14 of 29 | Posted by TinkerbellAPixie | Posted on September 6, 2005 6:01 PM
MYL-
Perfect name-you do make me laugh-every time! I hate to lose anyone on this blog, because you all add just the right touch to whatever you post. Much love, and you will be missed.
Joslyn
15 of 29 | Posted by joslyn | Posted on September 6, 2005 6:28 PM
Your twisted sense of humor will be missed. Thank you for always making us laugh. We'll miss you, dude.
16 of 29 | Posted by prettyinpink | Posted on September 6, 2005 6:29 PM
You will be missed MYL, now how about a real picture?
17 of 29 | Posted by runswithscissors | Posted on September 6, 2005 8:39 PM
Damn, I thought you were a chick.
And all this time you were Rosie?
WTF!
Summer of Secrets!
Take care & come back soon!
18 of 29 | Posted by reality'slut | Posted on September 6, 2005 9:39 PM
and here i thought i was the new guy...
19 of 29 | Posted by copygodd | Posted on September 6, 2005 9:42 PM
will we ever get the REAL reason MYL is leaving? i am guessing that b-side and j-unit are worried she will steal their collective thunder. or is MYL a dude?
20 of 29 | Posted by fight fight fight | Posted on September 7, 2005 4:46 AM
Nooooo!
Hope you make a cameo appearance now and then!
21 of 29 | Posted by Jess | Posted on September 7, 2005 5:55 AM
Oh Rosie, I'll miss you sooo much cause you mademelaugh.
22 of 29 | Posted by America's Next Top Fan | Posted on September 7, 2005 7:35 AM
Oh no! I am so very sad that you are leaving. I am sure you will experience major withdrawal symptoms, as will we in the absence of you. Good luck! I will miss your snappy comments.
23 of 29 | Posted by happy_gal | Posted on September 7, 2005 7:38 AM
Why do people think Im a chick?
MYL
24 of 29 | Posted by madeyoulaugh | Posted on September 7, 2005 9:14 AM
MYL - I thought you were a chick cuz you are so witty and wise. Plus, your handbag always matches with your shoes! You accessorize too well to be a guy. ;)
25 of 29 | Posted by reality'slut | Posted on September 7, 2005 10:49 AM
As long as it has nothing to do with my vagina.
MYL
26 of 29 | Posted by madeyoulaugh | Posted on September 7, 2005 11:27 AM
Madeyoulaugh - you'll always be the best wing-man J-Unit ever had.
27 of 29 | Posted by meeshie | Posted on September 7, 2005 11:27 AM
I thought you were Screech and now we find out you're really Rosie. So that is why Rosie gets so much coverage...
28 of 29 | Posted by Victoria | Posted on September 7, 2005 12:18 PM
...still sad that MYL is leaving.....
29 of 29 | Posted by TinkerbellAPixie | Posted on September 9, 2005 6:14 PM