2006 We Blog With Teeblahg Year In Review
On an otherwise ordinary day in late December, the 29th to be exact, Teeblahg sat down at his residence and created this blog. If I remember correctly, he did it to continue the good times from the fantasy football message board, and as a means to keep in contact with his friends and people that thought they were his friends. He had nothing other than a computer and a working internet connection, and he toiled for at least 5 minutes while creating this piece of internet, probably cursing at least a few times for good measure. Here's a
link to the first post ever... prepare yourself for the weight of it.
The first to comment to the post and get on board with the whole thing were someone called dominic nathan (later to become f theb) and tommyeddyo, and after some initial banter the whole thing got started. A quick rundown of some highlights:
January brought upon the first of Teeblah's many mission statements to make the blog into something more... a year later and he's changed the top picture - The Vikings hired Brad Childress a.k.a "Major Dad" - The entrance of "gia" on Jan 10th, who was later to change his name to Caspian James Crichton-Stewart IV in honor of
the student at Stillwater who claimed he was a prince in order to get hand jobs - Caspian starts the wheels in motion for St. Patrick's day in Chicago and nobody cares - The infamous 12:37 am bar trip by Teeblah and f theb that turns into the badly sprained ankle the next morning - Conspiracy theories abound with the death of Chris Penn - Blade turns 25 and the $50 dollar quit smoking challenge begins... which means Blade is approaching the 1 year mark without smoking... congrats!
February starts with f theb making an early prediction about teeblahg in the driver's seat for the smoking challenge after a sterling performance at Hollihan's, only to look like a fool a short time later - Handsteam/Hand Steam/Hands Team, the debate rages on - teeblahg talks again about "changing the whole face of the game" - he then thinks gold has been struck with the intro of audioblogger, but that didn't turn out either - lazer tag game occurs, Handsteam dominates, accused of cheating - Caspian asks the question of questions, "How do you get in a girl's pants if she isn't a .20 BAC??" - f theb goes to Denver, Denver responds with severe cold - The preview for A Scanner Darkly is released, did anyone actually see it?? - The foundations for a prime business venture involving "FUCKING CHARGING THEM INTEREST ON PUSSY" - Caspian announces he's getting a serious day drunk happening and looks for compatriots, no one cares - The section finals in HS hockey take place and WBL is jobbed by the refs against Hill Murray. All in all things are looking up for the blog, with more people contributing, and a good mix of topics and comments.
March started with Kirby Puckett suffering a stroke and SNL funny videos - Tourney time starts for HS Hockey and College B-Ball, pools abound - f theb goes "balls deep in VORP" when discussing his addiction to fantasy sports. It has only gotten worse - teeblah holds out for as long as he can, but finally succumbs to the power of the Camel lights and Blade wins the smoking challenge officially, although to most of us it was over well before then - f theb looks into his crystal ball for the baseball season and forgets about Detroit - March then kind of degenerated into a bunch of random links to funny stuff and not so much actual content. Maybe it was because the weather was getting warmer, people were too busy or just didn't care anymore, but it was definitely a defining moment for the blog... it needed a spark.
We Blog w/ Teeblahg refused to roll over though, as
April began with talk of the origin of "The Prince of Norway". The Prince would later get punched in the face by his manager during a game and then leave Toronto for the Cubs after the season - Caspian announces his intentions of becoming the next U of M quarterback, and his time may be now what with the new coach/stadium/no Cupito etc. - NHL playoffs begin and the Twins "look as solid as my poop the day after a night spent at Hollihan's" - April ends with a funny video of Caspian bashing an antenna with a baseball bat. The activity is definitely slowing, with some people dropping out entirely and teeblah, tommyeddyo, Caspian and f theb doing the lion's share of the posting.
May began with a series of lengthy posts by f theb about the state of Minnesota sports, Rap Music and the upcoming World Cup. A few scattered comments, but no real concern by anyone - Teeblah announces the first cabin trip of the year that f theb will not attend - a long time between posts brings up the Brita challenge, which has been debunked a couple times by people much more intelligent than me - the activity declines rapidly toward the end of May, with a couple links to rap videos to round off what started off to be a promising month.
June begins with a cabin recap, sober Lani retains the Bocce title - f theb places his foot in his mouth when he states that "it's a lost season" for the Twins, but also recommends some changes that turn out to save the season - "I heard that motherfucker had like, 30 goddamn dicks" - Twins get hot and mnraul makes the connection with f theb's proposed changes - Which is worse? Charmed or Jack Van Impe Presents?? - Teeblah gets on his soapbox and rants about Ozzie Guillen - Post of the year by Caspian, the epic drunk post whereupon he signs off with this gem "I'm drunk. You all can eat balls - but only in the most complimentary sense of the phrase. Poop." - f theb becomes worried for the future of open sourced internet. June is the classic quantity or quality argument, and I think I'd choose quality if the standard of posts was how it was in June.
July starts off with the first mention of the runaway smash hit Borat movie by tommyeddyo, he also managed to procure a 7'8" cardboard likeness of the man. Excellent foresight by tommy there - teeblah throws out his "megapost" where he finishes up by hating on Pirates 2. He also imagines Joe Mauer winning the batting title and "what kind of tail he'll get" if he does that - Step one is complete and the picture is put in for the header. Plans for sweeping changes are announced. Still just a picture at the top - teeblah tells us to leave the big thinking to the trained bloggers, then posts a great pic of him doing a keg stand - Whistler's Mother's Son enters and Caspian demands identification, then asks an uncouth question. A rhythm is sort of established at this point, where one of the big four (theb, eddyo, stuart IV, teeblah) posts and others comment/ignore/etc.
August may represent the low point of the blog. 5 total entries, one of which played music automatically, a repeat link to something posted months before, which is only partially saved by an impassioned Caspian recommending a "vision quest" at UWEC homecoming.
September marks the end of f theb's month+ hiatus from the blog and he announces his return with a epic post about.... video game ratings. Wow - teeblah's post on 9/18 promises a "new and improved teeblahg in 2 short days" which was interesting, but not as interesting as his quote about perception/conventional wisdom v reality, which he never followed up on - the month ends with the introduction of Little Superstar and the Alarmists being picked to click. A little better than the previous month, but still lacking a bit in overall quantity as well as quality.
October begins with another thought provoker from Caspian who writes about "The Ultimate Game" and how it applies to a three way - two lengthy posts from f theb about fans at sporting events and how Lewis Skolnick raped Betty Childs in Revenge of the Nerds - Caspian is called out by a coworker, saying with his lifestyle choices, he will either "hit rock bottom or die", word is still out on that. It's been established as fact that the participation just isn't what it used to be at this point, and the blog, to use my brother's least favorite phrase of all time, "Is what it is."
November begins with f theb doing his darndest to keep the good times going with a fantasy comedy show casting director post, and no one cares - Teeblah vents about some vote related things - Caspian and tommyeddyo discuss dead deer sex. nkimball, who's been pretty steady with the sports/video game related links, finishes the month out with a cool Tecmo Bowl video. Things are slowing to a crawl now.
The entire month of
December almost goes by postless until f theb tries to rekindle the fire with "Dick in a Box". That turns out to be the only post of the month.
Well, when I started doing this I thought it would take a lot longer than it acutally did, going by the amount of stuff going on in those first few months. It's been a downward spiral since then, and who knows what 2007 has in store for WBWT. I just want to say that it's been a good year, and thanks for allowing me to publish conspiracy rape stories about fictional movie characters here, because I might get fired if I put them on the bulletin board at work.
