You know I’ve been blogging now for almost nine years? There have been some exciting times and I’ve felt like I’ve learned a lot and met a lot of cool people. But I also think I’m about spent. Seems like I’m just making the same jokes over and over about the same stuff, and it’s getting harder and harder for it to hold my interest. I can barely even pretend to care about the silliness of politics anymore. Plus, I’m a father now, and I’d much rather being spending my time with Buttercup than struggling to find something that interests me to write about.
So it’s time to say goodbye to blogging. I’ll still be around on Twitter — which has supplanted blogs in a lot of ways. And maybe I’ll write some other pieces on other websites (check me out today at Townhall talking about the Chevy Volt), but I’m going to try to get away from politics, as I think I’m basically just worn out there.
Anyway, thank you so much to my readers and commenters. It’s meant a lot to me.
And I should mention I am also starting a new job. I’ve been hired by the Obama administration as an online media consultant. Basically, they’re getting concerned with public perception turning against Obama and the amount of people now ridiculing and making fun of him. In an interesting move, they’ve hired me to counteract that, since I know so much about ridiculing President Obama and what are the main points people attack, such as how useless he is, how out of touch he is, and his big, stupid dumbo ears. I mean, just thinking about Obama, I want to punch that blithering idiot who is nothing but in the way of the country’s recovery — but now it will be my job to counteract that feeling in others and use my ridicule expertise to defuse the jokes about him and the fact that he has no idea what he’s doing and is in way over his head.
So anyway, goodbye to blogging, and on to bigger, more interesting — Ah! I just thought of that worthless waste of space Obama again and I want to smash something! This is going to be a hard job!
Anyway, who wants this blog now? Going by HuffPo evaluation, it’s worth 1.2 million, but I’ll sell it for $40 or best offer.
april fools, i hope?
You should go write for Huffpo. That way you can be an Obama booster and pull in the big money.
How cares Frank? We only stop by here to read Basil anyway.
*sigh* I love April 2nd, mostly because it isn’t the day before.
This better be an April Fools joke!!!
How gullible do you think we are, Frank?
My buddy, Toonces, just ordered a Volt – I can’t wait to go for a ride.
I offered Beth from Mobile $50 for her blog. I haven’t heard back. The $50 offer stands.
I’ll buy this blog for $30. I will, of course, be changing the name to In Marx’s Angry Ovaries.
Last year’s was better.
Marko, I’ll pay 35 but get to keep all Frank’s advertisers that like pay him millions every year. I’m rich! Muwahahahah!
If we buy the blog do we all get nice shiney new “Nuke the Moon” T-shirts?
Huffpo? Go for the real crazy. Democrat Underground. They nare so far out there NORAD can’t pick them up.
Nice try, Frank. But we know no one would ever hire you.
So I read your stuff about the Chevy Volt (on another website) and it was really good! I guess your loyal IMOA readers are now left with the material that is left on the cutting room floor going forward? That’s ok Big Shot! We’ll still trudge to your website for the crumbs while you dazzle all the other websites with great funny!
Who is Frank kidding? If this weren’t an April Fool’s joke he’d sell the website for bacon and a functioning Mexi-cannon.
Great it’s April 1st in the blog-o-sphere. My funny bone is going to be more entertaining than most blog posts today.
I paypalled you two Jacksons, Frank. When do I get the keys to IMAO?
so far your top bid is $50. I bid $51 plus a random bag of loose action figures, 3 random tea bags, and a sturdy hand shake.
what, give up ridiculing obama and leave what surely will be the best stuff that is yet to come. i don’t think so, but still will you trade it for a cool dinosaur robot with head mounted cannon and lazer eyes?
Dang! I just recently started reading your blog and now, away you go! So to sweeten the pot I’ll bid $69.99 to aid your economic journey along….aaaaand…..I’ll throw in all the stuff we couldn’t get rid of at our yardsale last Saturday. You have to pick it all up though. And if you act now, a brand new set of steak knives and a refrigerator where if you close the door…The Light Stays On!!!
Wow my first april fools joke of the day and I fell for it hook line and sinker. Of course if this isn’t a joke I do have my auto bid set to outbid the last highest bid by $1, unless of course the bid exceeds $60.00, in which case I fold.
@saveacountry: I fell for it, too. Now, I’m reviewing the other things that Frank said and I believed.
OK, $52 and my subscription to Car and Driver. I also have a slightly used set of Mizouno blades that I will throw in. Once the ad revenues from this site start pouring in I can buy Mizouno and have them custom design a club called the ussjimmycarter! It won’t pass PGA regs but I’m taking my cue from Obama and we won’t be following any guidelines. My clubs will hit my ball (also illegal) a mile! If the PGA gives me the business I will claim racism or something…I’m a white 57 year old guy. No I’ll claim racism and age discrimination and I will sue them for so much money that I will then own the PGA! Then I will qualify myself for the Masters and I will win it with my new clubs and balls!!! All due to IMAO!
Ok 83.27 was all that was left in the collection box. So I think that makes me the high bidder. I’ll be teach on the Religion of Peace once i get the codes from Frank (May his name be praised).
5 bucks and a sworn affidavit that I will NOT email you naked photos of a Pelosi/Helen Thomas lesbian tryst deceitfully named dinosaur-rocket-launcher-in-action.
You’re all too late, I already sold IMAO to some drooling guy sitting on the sidewalk in front of a local minimart.
You really will have to do better than this!
Put Buttercup on the line and lets see what she has to say.
@25 Raving Lunaitc
Thanks for that mental picture. I definitely need some brain bleach after that one. BLURGH
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Frank, this is you…from the future. For the sake of all mankind, you must sell me the site for -$85. The future depends on it. In my timeline, you/I take that $85 down to the bar, get hammered at lunch time, stagger into a DNC office and register for candidacy – eventually you/I become president. This must be avoided at all costs. RuPaul is Secretary of State. Tom Cruise is the Secretary of Defense. Dick Clark is the Ambassador to the UN (well, that’s not so bad).
Please, think of the children.
Sincerely,
President Frank J Fleming,
United States of Amexicanadapanistan.
I think that its great that you will be helping Obama with his image, the blogosphere is so biased against him, he NEEDS someone in his side.
Wow! All sorts of shocking news today! First, Apple abandons iOS and allows people to put other operating systems on their iPhones, and now Frank retires! If I didn’t know better, I’d think people were treating this entire day as some kind of joke… but we as a culture are more mature than that, right? RIGHT!?!
Nope! your going to have to better than forty bucks to get me to take this “Web” site off your hands. And just know, non-negotiable conditions for relieving you of this troubled liability is no Basil or Harvey. Scary Monkey is negotiable, and the rest I wil let you throw in for free. I won’t even charge you a name removal fee.
Atheists’ Day is filled with impractical Jokers….The Fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.”
April Fools Day had it’s origination with the change of the New Year from Apr. 1st, to Jan. 1st, from the Julian calender, to the Gregorian calender.
The French, being a little stupid, or rebellious, didn’t switch over right away, thus were labeled fools, and sent on ‘fool’s errands’.
In France, the ‘fool’ was called the ‘poisson d’avril’, the April fish(as in, easily hooked). The ‘fish’ would get a paper fish put on his back without his knowledge, which is the equivalent of the ‘Kick Me’ signs put on the backs of geeks/nerds/Rep.Weiner everywhere, today.
Happy April Fools Day to you too, Frank.
140-character Twitter quips have supplanted blogging where you can creatively write as long as you want about anything you want?
True. And the joke’s on us.
No more “In My World”? Oh my goodness; all these great bloggers are quitting; it’s hard to imagine. You’ve been the funniest thing online (well, you and cracked) for a long time…it’s hard to imagine this one not being here. Well I like Basil too; if he keeps posting it won’t be a total loss 🙁
The bit about working for Obama on his image…that part was April Fools, right? RIGHT?
Gaddafi must go! Ha-ha April fools!…..BO
As with other good things, like freedom, I’ll offer you a buck-oh-five for this fine site.
ha, ha. very funny. now go fix me a sammich.
Ok, $100 and you go to the bar and get baked and then come home and play your stupid 3DS game…K?