Alright, so I have no clue what’s going on with this website. Shit is gettin’ real. Allow me to explain.
I was going through all of my old posts in order to update formatting (and maybe change things that could be embarrassing to me personally. You’ll never know, the originals are gone. SUCKERS!). Anywho, I noticed two strange things.
Strange Thing #1
I am credited with several posts that I never wrote. The entire The Last Bell series (Parts 1, 2 and 3) are obviously not mine, and I say so in an Editor’s comment prior to each post. [Editor’s Sidenote: I will be trying to get the final installment of The Last Bell. My computer seems to have destroyed it, but I’m hoping someone has an original. I know at least one of you (Sean) is itching to learn how it ends. If he still is reading. Not likely.] However, there are several more posts that are credited to me that I have no recollection of writing:
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Jon Stewart: A Pictorial Analysis
The Revenge?
Superior Measurements
Re: A Brief History of Mankind
Duel of the fates
Will Write for Food
Now, just because I don’t remember writing these is by no means conclusive evidence that I didn’t. I am, however sure that my name is not Dirq, Drq or any variation thereof. Also, I don’t recognize any of the songs from the listen portion. But hell, I’ll take credit if it pads my stats. I claim no responsibility for the views expressed on these quotes, or their lack of my preferred formatting.
Strange Thing #2
The more disturbing fact is that now the only other poster is someone named Pete. I don’t know who this Pete character is, or why he seems to have edit capabilities on all the posts on the site. Very confusing. Although, if this Pete character starts to post and fill in some of my gaps he could be my new best friend. How about it Pete?
This is the first picture that came up on a Google Images search of 'Pete'.
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Listen: Death Cab For Cutie, “This Temporary Life”
Quote: “That night, I bought a whole bag of those candy Valentine’s Day hearts that say all kinds of shit on them, like ‘Let’s Kiss’, and ‘I’m A FUCKING DICK’. Then, I headed down to my workshop to get to work scraping off the actual lettering and putting on my own — things like ‘Shut The Fuck Up’ and ‘You Burned My Dinner Again, God Damn It’.” – Pete Dunson
Pete
Clint
mshanker
Who is Pete?
It is not Pete Wentz, however may be Pete Dunson, Pete Rose, or Pete(y) Pablo. There may be an explanation in your email too.
What about these mysterious posts you don’t recall writing?
You may be having an identity crisis like the main character in the movie “Fight Club.”
a) Hey, did you hear they made a book out of that?
b) I could have used a similar explanation for Pete’s contributions to Ranty.
When Pete changed hosts from Blogger to WordPress, he had to complete an import process so that all of the old posts were there. This included assigning a WordPress author (with a WordPress account) to each Blogger author. Unfortunately, Dirq, having left the blogosphere, did not have a WordPress account at the time of import. Therefore, Pete made the selfless executive decision to accredit these posts to Clint.
Did you like how I included hyperlinks to our own posts? Come on stat padding!!
We should do that more often. Genius!
More rants, please.
RALSTON!!! It’s been a while. I’ll try to oblige.