Sun, April 6, 2003

A close pal and I recently started an online venture called The Athletic Reporter. (Go there, now!) It's a weekly sports news site, except the sports news is all made-up, and funny. So far, it's been loads of fun and we've gotten all sorts of positive reactions. There's a link on this page, feel free to follow it and become a regular reader. We'd love to have you, and we hope you enjoy the site.

As part of this exploit, my partner (Joe Mulder) (we're partners in the site; we're not sleeping together) (yet... I've still got to figure a way to get his fiancée out of the picture) gave me a list of sites to link from the Athletic Reporter homepage. The result of this is that I became aware of the weblog (it's like an online diary; in the parlance of the netizen, it's "blog") of a friend of Joe's and a "solid acquaintance" of mine. It's highly entertaining, and there's a link on this page, see Daily(?) Beallsvonian.

Because our site is mentioned on the weblog, and because it's damn entertaining in its own right, I've been reading the Daily(?) Beallsvonian from time to time. Recently, it featured a link to a site called the Tard Blog. There's a link on this page, follow at your own risk. The Tard Blog presents itself as the weblog of a special ed teacher who's not too concerned about political correctness in her description of her students and her classroom life. I'm not convinced that it's real, but it's in very poor taste and it's hilarious.

Browsing the Tard Blog archives, I learned that one of its creators is a guy named Tucker Max. You probably haven't heard of him, but it's not for his lack of trying. He's apparently on MTV now or something, but he's a self-promoter of the highest order. He has a site of his own, on which appears an application form to date him. The story goes that while he was in law school, a friend bet him that he wouldn't put up an online application for women to date him. Max, not one to back down from a dare or an opportunity to get attention in a debaucherous way, put up the site. He maintains that he has never dated any of the applicants; he just put the site up because of the dare.

Well, I'm under no such dare, but I'd like to publicly and officially state that if you're a reader of this site and would like to date me, no application is necessary. You can just send email and we'll see how things go. Not that I expect anything to come from this, because if you're a reader of this site there's a one-in-four chance that you're my mom, but just so it's out there.

Jennifer Garner, I know you're newly separated, and I am prepared to be very supportive in this difficult time of transition. Email me.

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