You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
50,000 views.
Since starting Andy Cordan “That’s Crazy” two years ago, 50,000 of you have gone onto my web site to read my crazy stories to watch my crazy videos, to order my crazy t-shirts.
I want to thank all of you who have become regulars.
I want to thank those of you who tell me the art makes you smile.
I want to thank those of you who say you look forward to my post like you look forward to your morning cup of coffee.
I want you to know that I treat AndyCordan.com like a second job. It’s the job that doesn’t pay me anything, but the job I love.
When I think back on this labor of love I first think about why I started it.
One word.
“Stammered”
Some of you know the story of the viewer who called my boss to complain that I used the word “stammered” and he was offended.
“Cordan, get in here!” I hear my boss’ voice shrieking through the hallway.
“What’s up?” I ask poking my head in his door.
“This guy on the phone says you claimed he stammers.”
“Who said that?,” I said with a sense of bewilderment.
“The tow truck driver in your story.”
I had recently aired a story about a man who parked in an apartment parking lot and was towed. The motorist alleges the tow truck guy had no right to tow his car. I spoke to the motorist, but never could track down the tow truck driver who worked for a shady company out of Dallas.
“I never identified the tow truck driver, I never met the tow truck driver,” I said to my boss. “I only called him the tow truck driver.”
“Well he has a speech impediment and he says you insulted him. Take the word Stammer out of the internet version.”
I cast an incredulous glance at my boss.
Really? One anonymous guy calls and claims he is unhappy and we are going to fold up our tent and stick our tail between our legs and run for cover?
Somewhere Edward R. Murrow is pulling down his pants and peeing on the first amendment.
I was amazed. I didn’t know that the lying, cheating, stammering, scum-sucking, towing-when-he-shouldn’t-have-been-towing, son-of-a-bitch, also had a speech impediment.
I could have written “he told the motorist one thing, hesitated, then told the driver something different.”
Instead I said the tow truck driver Stammered.
“OK, I’ll change the word, the one single solitary word in a 1,000 word story to something other than “Stammered.”
“Good” my boss said hanging up and going back to more important matters like approving FACEBOOK friends.
“NEVER AGAIN,” I vowed. “never again.”
That night I went on line and bought the rights to ANDYCORDAN.COM and “That’s Crazy was born.”
It became the place where my creative, angry, unique spirit now roams endlessly like a deranged bison on a range of super charged freedom.
50,000 hits!
Wow.
I write each day because I need to write. I need to express and vent and tell the truth in my own crazy way. Like a moonshine still in the Tennessee hills, If I don’t vent periodically, there could be an explosion.
While I don’t do this for numbers, I am impressed with the number.
50,000 hits seems to be somewhat of a milestone.
I know it’s not “cats playing piano” VIRAL, but hey, it’s a start.
I remember when my dad and mom and a few friends were the only ones reading. I was averaging about 10 people a day for months.
But the legion of Crazies grew and as they say in that shampoo commercial one friend told another friend and so on and so on and so on.
Now there are hundreds of you reading every day which is not bad considering it is a grass roots campaign at this point.
I haven’t decided what I want “That’s Crazy” to ultimately become, but it’s evolving toward whatever that will be.
I think the most exciting thing is people I don’t know read this web site. Some of you agree with my insanity. Some of you think I’m a schmuck.
I think both groups have a valid argument.
Either way, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for sticking with me through thick and thin.
When it’s 11pm and I am staring at a blank screen wondering what the hell am I suppose to write, I want you to know that I am staring at that screen because I now feel a duty to you. I want to make sure that you have something to read with that morning cup of Joe.
And that is crazy.™