The Weekender Offender

Hey fellow offenders, it's the weekend again and this Weekender Offender is dedicated to a fellow offender and one of the funniest humor bloggers out there, Kevin from Pointlessbanter.

He is the man who recently gave the following response to a question over at Blog Catalog that someone asked regarding what we as bloggers would do if we found out that something we wrote offended someone:

"I have without a doubt pissed off everyone that reads my blog at one time or another. Everything is funny until you hit on a topic that is touchy to someone.

They will get over it, if not than honestly they need to get a life. It is your blog, your voice, and not everyone is always going to be happy with what is being said. You give in and back down because someone got their feathers ruffled once you will have to do it over and over... Losing your voice what people were originally there for."

I know!!

It is brilliant and something we should all remember. That alone earns him the Weekender Offender award in my book!

But, actually, I chose him as my Weekender Offender for a much more personal reason. :)

Now don't get me wrong, I think he is the best. I've stumbled and dugg him and I really love his blog but I'll never forget the first words that Kevin said to me when I asked the friendly and helpful bloggers over at Blog Catalog to give me an honest opinion about my latest post:

"Um... so that is what it is like when someone just vomits on a page. I couldn't even figure out what the hell I was reading and the layout is atrocious."

Haha!

Yep, that was him, being his brutally honest self.

Did I get offended? Of course not!

His brutal honesty is a quality I actually admired in him from the beginning.

Do I remember things like this and do my best to get even?

Oh yes. :)

In fact, it seems like only yesterday that he said that to me, and I can almost imagine the look on his face when he first saw my blog back then:

Now don't tell him, but between you and me, long before I joined Blog Catalog I actually sabotaged my theme to look like 'someone had vomited on it' on purpose because I was going for the whole "offensive" angle thing.

That's right, and it worked!

I'm not sure, but he probably thinks I changed my 'someone vomited on the page' look because of him, but in reality it was the "Blog Yourself Rich" crowd over there turned me on to the idea that sex sells and you know me, I follow the trends.

I blogged myself rich that first week after I switched to the pin-up girl theme!!

Hooyah!

Oh, but he didn't know that!!

He honestly thought I had no #$%!ing clue what I was doing and he was just being the offensive yet funny and lovable bastard he always is!!

As much as I really do like Kevin and think he is very, very funny.... secretly it has been my goal to get my revenge on him and kick his ass out of the top position in the Blog Catalog Humor directory since that fateful day our paths crossed, and might I add, it is a goal which I recently accomplished:


Yay for me!!

That's right, take that you funny bastard!!

Do I feel a bit guilty??

Ha!

OK, maybe a bit.

Would he?!

Oh hell no, and that is precisely why I made him my Weekender Offender. :)

I am hoping his reaction to it is something like:

Hooyah again if it is!! :)

So anyhoo... I do thank you, Kevin, for not only giving me more than a few good laughs over at Pointlessbanter but by being such an inspiration to me.

I admire you for being so brutally honest and not caring if what you say offends someone, including me!!

You really are my hero and I will continue to look up to you even though I am on top right at the moment. ;)

Now go fix your atrocious blog layout, it looks like someone vomited all over it and I can't tell what the hell it is that I'm reading!!

:p

Don't worry, Kevin, you're still way ahead of me over at humor-blogs.com hehe.