So I was just a normal dude working at a business that I owned sometime around 2010-ish? None of what follows is meant to suggest I'm better than you, or funnier or smarter or any other thing you can imagine. Because in fact mostly the opposite is true. It's mostly just a way to tell you why this is here. All I'm saying is I'm just a regular person that has no real desire anymore to be famous or even really a writer. Just an average guy with an internet connection and too much time on my hands.
Anyway, business -wise it was obviously slow going at first so I'd spend endless hours reading celebrity websites, mostly, because believe it or not 15 years ago that was pretty much the most exciting thing on the internet.
I was only kind of into politics, insofar as I read the news, and not much more than that, so getting my life tangled up in that swamp was never really an option. So one day I stumbled on a website at the time, a pretty big one actually, called Deceiver. They would call out celebrities for being hypocrites, you know preaching to people how we need to save water while washing their Rolls Royce with Perrier and flying two private jets around the world for a hamburger while telling people they shouldn't drive so much, you know, that kind of thing, and I became kind of a regular commenter.
So toward the end I got pulled out of the muck of the comment section, they hosed me off and promoted me - such as it was - to writer. Unpaid of course. Which I did for a while. I don't really remember how long. Maybe a year or so?
And then one day it was gone. They just pulled the plug. By the way, that's why the web address for this is Deceiver Jr.
I was a little surprised as it was kind of a big site that had hundreds of thousands of views every day, which back then was kind of a lot but that's how it goes.
So I bounced around writing for myself and at least one other a website called What Would Tyler Durden Do after the original guy sold or bailed or whatever happened, and I actually got paid there.
In fact they still owe me like $100.
This whole history is time compressed by the way as it spans about five or six years, but you get the idea. If some of this sounds scattershot, it's because it happened over the course of 10 or 15 years and I'm trying to remember it in some kind of order.
I was still very inexperienced, as I'm not actually a writer, and I don't even consider myself to be a writer. At all. But I didn't much like how they operated so I just stopped writing there and moved mostly full time to this. Mostly just to blow off steam, and because while I don't consider myself a writer I do enjoy doing it.
Anyway around the same time all of that stuff was ending, I created a what was then a Twitter account and really just started hanging out mostly there. It was much easier as my business started taking off and I was working 70-100 hours every week and simply didn't have time to write no matter how much I loved it. I could write a short post hit send and walk away. Which brings me to the next potential chapter of all this nonsense and the whole point of this.
I'm considering moving this site to X. I haven't made the final decision yet but I'm seriously considering it. I've had Google (Blogger's owner) remove stories people have objected too several times, and that likely won't happen there. If I do move it, I'll simply let this one sit, static until they delete it or until Doomsday because there's no way I'm transferring 4000 posts to a new website no matter how easy it is, so you can spend the next two years scrolling through old posts back here if you want
On the other hand I like the separation. I can write much more comfortably here and have the comments turned off so I don't have to put up with the bullshit so I don't know yet. I may have to expand it beyond this boring nonsense too so I don't know
Anyway before I go, IF I go, there I am at the top. I figured I'd finally give you the chance to make fun of me for a change. God knows I deserve it.
