As if I don’t have enough problems. The goddamn Steelers are world champions and the Steeler Nation will become even more unbearable, if such a thing is possible.

But I can’t let that stop me. We’re on a fucking roll.

Internet Icon Dave McAwesome joins our Ranks this week with not one, but two shitty blogs. You’ll have to bear with Dave, he’s just come out of a long period of denial. For the longest time, he refused to admit that his site, Maximum Awesome, was a blog and that he was just another Shitty Blogger. This week Dave stands before us and says, “My name is Dave and I’m a Shitty Blogger.”

So, join me in saying, “Hi Dave.”
There is plenty of coffee and we’ll all go out for a smoke when we are done here. But please, no hugging.
I mean it.

Now that Dave has come clean, he’s added another shitty blog to the mix, Crap or Not Crap. The Shitty Blogs Club was found to be Not Crap. Okay, maybe Dave still suffers some denial.

Keep those memberships rolling in and someone should wake up those missing members. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to miss this.

Be Proud. Be Shitty!

I had a membership drive and actually gained members.

I KNOW!

I’m as shocked as you are.

Please welcome Chad and Kewl. They blog. They’re not necessarily good at it.

And while I’m at it… where the hell is Gus Greeper? And CJ Hixon? Shouldn’t they be here. I think they should be.

Mango is not impressed with yet another revival of the SBC. I guess I should call the whole thing off.

Whatever.

I don’t care. This is stupid, I know that. I mean think about it… it’s called the Shitty Blogs Club. OF COURSE IT IS STUPID!

It’s simple. Sign up or not. Put a button on your blog or not. Listen to Shitty Blog Radio… or not. Talk shit in the forums… or… you guessed… or not.

I’m disappointed. I mentioned Survivor and Monty didn’t even flinch. Maybe she’s to good for us now. Or perhaps, I’ve teased the survivor thing one to many times.

Keep those new members coming. And Be Proud. Be Shitty!

(A rabid monkey, hopped on caffeine will be standing by to take your call.)

Do you know what I hate?

Well besides clowns, women drivers, rednecks, Starbucks, Work, winter, political correctness, mommy bloggers, sitcoms, country music, New Year’s Resolutions, Birthday Parties, Nascar…

Okay, you get the point.

I hate it when I hear the ‘Media’ talk about blogging. They always reduce it to some form of amateur journalism. Sure there are some bloggers who have used the medium in just that way, and hats off to them. But I don’t think that does blogging justice. I think plenty of people blog just cause they feel like they have something to say.

They may not how to say it, or even what exactly it is. Yet they try to say it.

To me this is, at the same time, what is great and awful about blogging. Literally, millions of people who may or may not have any ability to write; who may or may not have any idea what they want to say; who may or may not have even thought out what it is they are trying to do.

Chances are that they ran across a blog or had a friend that blogs or read about it somewhere and thought to themselves, I can do this… I should do this!

It’s not hard to set one up, you can do it for free, there is nothing stopping you. And so they set them up. And then they blog, whatever that means.

The resultant blogs are as varied as the people who ‘write’ them. These blogs, more often than not, don’t provide some useful or necessary information. They aren’t well written and edited masterpieces. They just are. Occasionally, something wonderful comes out, but mostly it just is.

That’s where the Shitty Blogs Club comes in. We not only understand this, we embrace it. We think blogging is just like life: occasionally interesting, but mostly shitty. On any given day most blogs are shitty. They have more meme than content. They are just plain neglected. They are whiny. They have more style than content. They have more content than style. Some bloggers will get defensive. “My Blog is a big Deal! It is an award winning blog! It is going to a)bring in ad revenue b) land me a book deal c) bring me fame and fortune or d) some other unlikely goal.”

But many of us get it. We know that this blogging is just something we do for good, bad or (most likely) ugly.

This club is for those who get it.

If you join this club, I personally promise that it will never help you make a dime, it will not increase your traffic or SEO, it will never get you noticed by editors, publishers or the Media.

There is only one reason to join this club. It’s to make a stand and say to the so-called blogosphere: I have a blog and it is mostly shitty, and I am proud of it.

This club has been, erm, dormant for a while. It’s time to kick some life back into it. Existing members: recruit new members! You surely know some bloggers who ‘get it,’ send them here! Potential new members: Read the FAQ and then read this. If you still want to join, go here.

Once you are a member, you can enjoy then benefits of Membership: Not listening to Shitty Blog Radio; not posting in the forum; not buying Shitty Blog stuff; and not participating in games and contests.

Be Proud. Be Shitty!

I guess I will.

Although, nothing might have been an improvement.

There has been talk of a Hot Blogger Calendar. I don’t think I have to tell you what kind of bad idea this is. That is unless they plan to use those cutie little chics that all of the bloggers seem use on their themes. It’s been my assumption that in real life most bloggers are… big. I’m not sure why that might be, but it more often than not it holds true.

But who I am I to criticize, have your contest, I don’t care. Monty even nominated me. I promise that if I win and have to go to New York for a professional photo-shoot for my pictures, that I will send a copy of the calendar to all of you. Yes, that is a threat, but I don’t think that one vote is gonna cut it.

I should make a Shitty Blogger Calendar. Or worse yet, a Girls of Shitty Blogs Club Gone Wild! calendar. Yes, that is also a threat.

I am sick of hating my job. I think I should get new one. If you know anyone that is looking for a brilliant, but grumpy Network Admin/Engineer please let me know.

I think we need some new members. And then we should trick them into signing up for Survivor and then we could get them to do stupid shit for our amusement. And by “we” and “our,” I mean “I” and “Mine.”

In other news, there is no other news. But it seemed like a good segue into plugging the forums. All the cool kids post in the forums. At least they would if they weren’t such lazy fuckers. Other plugs and promotional type shit: Listen to Shitty Blog Radio, every Thursday around 10-ish PM EST. Buy Shitty Brand Merchandise. And You too can buy a Shitty Blogs Club Contributor, just email me at questions@shittyblogsclub.net and tell me what you have to offer.

Fuck you all and have a good holiday weekend.

Be Proud. Be Shitty!

I have issues.

I know, talk about stating the obvious. It’s what I do, I look around, see what I see and then blurt it out as though no one else can see it.

Amongst the many issues is this one: I can’t stand to be alone. Now add this one: I hate people. Man am I fucked.

It is this juxtaposition of issues that drove me to look for social interaction on the Internet in the first place. This goes back to the early 90’s. I discovered usenet. What a great idea, I thought. People from all over can ‘gather’ to discuss common interests. The first post I made (probably in some Pink Floyd.alt.alt.dumb kind of thread) was flamed by some stupid know-it-all, stoner loser. I guess my post didn’t measure up to his expectations.

The same pattern followed for Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, and just about everything on Internet. Even the porn was disappointing.

I always think the Internet will be the perfect answer to this the need people/hate people thing. You’d think that on the web, without the constraints of class, economy and geography, that you’d be able to find a group of people that ‘fit in’ with.

As a rule, I’ve failed miserable in that regard.

Every time I think that I’ve found something that will allow me to interact with other people, it turns out that those people are as narrow minded, boring and general stupid (or more so) than the people I have to deal with in the real world.

And any of you that want to tell me that I could make it work if I wanted to are simply missing the point. Of course I could behave like a complete moron and fit in with the rest of them, but that’s not what I’m looking for at all.

So I sit here and work on my Shitty Blog Sites and make believe that if I control the rules that it will give me what I want. But we all know better.

So despite my social networking, my email contacts, IM contacts, twitter friends and blog buddies when I am feeling alone and want some one to talk… there’s nobody there.

Damn I love the Internet.

Be Proud. Be Shitty!

I have a sense of humor.

I can laugh at myself and I can laugh at irony.

A group of sites popping up on the internet with names like Shitty Network and Shitty Blogger. That’s ironic. *Edit* Go ahead and click, it won’t work. They’ve blocked links from this site. Who the fuck doesn’t want traffic? They stole our name. If it was a happy coincidence, don’t you think they would have said “Oh look at that, they are shitty too!”

So I poked fun. We left a few comments. Nothing rude, nothing derisive. Just a bit of fun. They deleted them.

Okay…

I left a few more, with humor.

“Was it something we said,” I asked?
“Shitty Blog Radio will never be beaten down,” I responded to an article called Internet radio is about to be beaten down

Deleted.

I went to leave another comment, but it’s not going to happen.

Action Denied: Blacklisted Item Found
http://shittyblogsclub.blogsome.com/

Action Denied: Blacklisted Item Found
http://shittyblogradio.com/

Do they have us confused with spammers? I don’t think so. Maybe they read the last post and didn’t find it funny. So I checked the Stats. No click-thru’s came from those pages to here.

I began to wonder… Maybe they didn’t click because they already knew who we are.

I looked at the group of authors of this “Shitty Network” and they seemed familiar. Could they be part of that damned Diva-Blog Explosion clique?

I think maybe they are. And if that is true, then they know exactly who we are. Trust me. We go way back.

All of a sudden this doesn’t seem like irony. Maybe they stole our thunder. I can picture them saying to themselves, “If those assholes can get traffic just by calling themselves shitty, why not us.

Coincidence or not, I’m pissed. Blacklist me bitches.

I left a new comment. I’m sure it will be deleted before you get a chance to look at it. So I took a picture.

*Picture Deleted Use your Imagination.*
I hate these people. You should too. Because they hate you.

Leave them a comment. Don’t use a real email address. And don’t leave a url. But make sure you use the words “Shitty” and Blogs” or “Bloggers” somewhere in the comment.

They’ll start blacklisting IP addresses, but there are a lot of us. That’s a lot of IP address to block.

But Jeckles, why? Why do you even care? Because we are shitty. And we have been for years. And now they have called themselves Shitty Bloggers? I don’t care if it was on purpose or an unhappy accident.

We are Shitty Bloggers and I want them to acknowledge it.

I don’t do comments.
But you can talk about it here.

Be Proud. Be Shitty!