You know what’s crazy? I’ll Tell you what’s crazy!
That’s Crazy was launched in the Summer of 2009. I have religiously and faithfully posted a story 5 days a week without missing a day since then.
After some of the senior citizens in our little blog community began complaining that I wrote too many words, I decided to launch a video player.
The first Craz-a-licious Rant was a topical item that focused on David Letterman and his extortion caper.
I had one comment and in all this time it has garnered no more than 114 views.
I came back the next day, obviously excited about posting video to my site, ranting about ESPN’s Erin Andrews Peep Hole debacle.
I quickly saw what a salacious bunch of hyenas you Internet people really are.
Dave was a dog compared to Erin “naked as a jay bird” Andrews, who commanded a whopping 1,800 views!
Are those 1,800 concerned citizens who feel badly for a young woman wronged? NOPE!
Are they 1,800 Andy Cordan fans who want to see my unique take on a twisted public affair? Maybe.
What I am sure of – GOOGLE searches were smoking hot with words like Erin and Andrews and Peep Hole and Naked.
Sadly, my little blog ended up in this Internet meat grinder of voyeurism and almost 2,000 people were directed to my site. They either watched and were entertained, or they were angered that they waisted .000045867 seconds of their life and didn’t get so much as a boner.
I have done more than 50 videos since the David Letterman video. I have done rants on Tiger Woods and Pablo Escobar theme parks and nonsensical rants about Brett Farve should retire.
To date I have had more than 18,500 views.
I actually have 19 people who subscribe to my You Tube channel, meaning when I post a new video, which I am embarrassed to say has been a while, they are instantaneously notified.
That is cool on the surface, till you think about the enormity of You Tube. What is it? Like a billion viewers world wide or something crazy like that? So 19 subscribers to my site, well that’s sort of like invisible plankton sperm floating at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Pretty irrelevant huh?
My channel is most popular in Great Britain. The You Tube rating is .01. I’m next most popular in the USA with a rating of .00. I don’t know what these numbers represent, but if my basic math is correct, they don’t correlate to a monsoon of viewership. Bluto in Animal House had a similar GPA as a comparison.
While most of my videos garner a few hundred views. One in particular skewed with 4,061 views.
It was the Uncle Kyle edition of the Jersey Shore on MTV. The show was about to debut and the Italian American community was up in arms complaining that the show was going to showcase Italians in a negative light.
Uncle Kyle and I did a fake talk show that kind of sucked. We were both hung over. We didn’t talk about our concept prior to rolling tape and we basically laid it down on the first take. It sucked. That shows you how F’ed up America is. This is the number one topic viewed on my site by a 2 to 1 ratio.
The only thing close? Erin Andrews and the pull up your pants song that generated buzz because it was on American Idol.
The interesting thing about the Internet is immediate feed back. What were people saying about the Jersey Shore as presented on That’s Crazy?
lommylom writes:
“6 months ago iyou have to be brain dead fool to actually watch this garbage”
pedalpunk57 writes:
“Hey dont’get me wrong I love Italian people, But I aint about to waste my time watchin all these dumbasses flex and shake their asses and tits just for ratings. I’ll go hang with some REAL ITALIANS, THANK YOU!!”
djcesare writes:
“ok italians who use phrases like “fogetta bout it” or “eeh oooh” or call tomato sauce gravey instead of sugo are white washed vinnys. wops from newyork or new jersey need to come to toronto or montreal canada to learn what being a real young italian really means! jersey.. te fatso culo cosi!!”
supernirvanafan 6 months ago pedalpunk57
You Tube really is a marvelous invention. It connects the world instantaneously through a pure portal so transparent and so immediate it makes me excited and sad all at once. Excited because of the possibilities of creative expression and freedom of speech. Sad because you see just how ignorant most of the world really is.
I color myself into this mix, somewhere between ignorant and creative, liberated and confined by the medium.
I will continue to write all my words that make many of you dizzy. I will also try and get a video a week onto the site time permitting.
Remember: life is crazy. It’s not just t shirts and and long rants. It’s more than fancy editing and high octane observations. If you are too tired to read my words and you are too rushed to watch my videos. Then Just stare at my art. I create a new artistic expression for every story. I am coming up on image number 300! If we were a TV show, we’d be celebrated with MASH and Seinfeld and Friends. But we are a crappy little web site, lower than mud on your shoe, so….
either way, that’s a lot of art people. It summarizes my concept in a single instant. If you ever want to take a look, it’s all available to see at the Picasa Site listed on the page.
One day, and you heard it here first, people are going to be wearing my brand, bathing with my brand, brush their teeth with my brand, reading my brand on beach vacations and viewing my brand in pay per view formats.
right now it’s free so enjoy it.
Mark my day people, that Crazy Day is closer than you think!
AND THAT IS CRAZY!
p.s. the art at the top of this post is numbered: 293