Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

Reality television doesn’t appeal to me, however it does appeal to my grandfather who can’t speak more than ten words of english (and not very well) and also my younger sister who is finally going on to middle school. Obviously these shows aren’t aimed at the same audience as shows like Frasier, 24, The Sopranos, etc… Or as I like to call them: the shows that actually require you to have at least a double digit IQ.

I was flipping through and reading some articles (I think it was The Week magazine, but I’m not sure) and I saw some advertisement that lists statistics such as number or Iraqi soldiers/civilians killer, number of American soldiers/civilians killed, etc. And number of weapons of mass destruction found: 0.

It seems like people are really searching for reasons to hate on President Bush… Not to say that I’m a big Bush supporter or anything, but if you don’t like this country and if it’s such a big, bad, Nazi-esque, bunch of trigger-happy jackasses, you’re free to leave and go somewhere else. The United States is not keeping you prisoner here… Although that does sound like some place that I’ve been reading about in the news.

I’ll admit that I haven’t been checking up on the news recently (although I’m starting to get back into the habit now), but when did people start to think that Saddam Hussein was such an innocent guy? Did he join the big brother program? Make a big charity contribution? Sponsor a walk-a-thon? People knew him as a bad-ass many years ago, but suddenly he’s Mr. I-didn’t-do-anything-wrong.

Believe it or not, Saddam Hussein is not like Harrison Ford in The Fugitive… The one armed man didn’t do jack shit. Maybe after every advertisement like the one I saw today, they should add the following: Ladies and gentlemen, you’ve just been brainwashed.

5 points for the person that tells me who says the quote that I used for this post’s headline.

A little late with the news, but I just released two new websites. One for my friend, Rob: DJ Won. And another that serves more than 14,000 (female) celebrity pictures: CelebPicArchive.com— links and plugs to this site are appreciated.

I was browsing some new website designs that people had made and I actually came across yet another page that lists a bunch of requirements before you can actually enter their website. And of course, where would a teen website be without some sort of notice that says an “open mind” is required…

Maybe the people creating these crap-ass websites with stupid disclaimers should get an open mind— and while they’re at it, a creative one— instead of just copying something that’s been done on about ten thousand other websites, about five years ago.

Viewers don’t need an “open mind” to view these websites because they’ve seen them thousands of times before. Believe me, there’s nothing that these open-mind-required websites have to offer that hasn’t been offered by others.

It doesn’t mean that I watch sports all day and memorize player statistics. Watching any sport is like watching golf to me. I don’t get into any games and I don’t go around attacking people who are rooting for an opposing team.

It doesn’t mean that when I sign up for free subscriptions for magazines like Maxim and Stuff, that I’m not actually doing it to see which latest web design trend they knocked off and crappily copied (and also to search for Absolut Vodka and Got Milk? advertisements to sell to collectors).

It doesn’t mean that I feel the need to masturbate constantly, wasting countless hours of my life when I could be watching sports or looking at half naked (or an an optimist would say: half dressed) women in dirty magazines.