This Lady Gets Me
Who is Penelope Trunk you ask? Well Penelope is the founder of 3 startups — most recently, Brazen Careerist, a web service to help companies find candidates. Her career advice appears in more than 200 newspapers and magazines including Time magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and Boston Globe. Business Week called Penelope’s writing “poetic.” In other words Penelope is the world’s foremost expert on blogging. And why is this important? Because today she wrote an entry called “How To Write A Blog That People Love” And surprise, surprise of all the bloggers in this little universe of ours, guess who she chose to use as an example on how to write the “perfect blog?” Yup none other than yours truly…..El Presidente. Now keep in mind this isn’t my opinion or some nobodies opinion we’re talking about here. This is Penelope Trunks. Her opinion is essentially fact. So for all you losers who say I suck at what I do, it turns out I’m the “perfect blogger”after all. (her words, not mine) Deal with it.
PS – Umm, when do Penelope and I get to fuck?
She knows talent!
True story
Wake up with Penelope Trunks?
“The smell of pizza makes men want to have sex.”
Correction *The smell of ANYTHING makes men want to have sex
Sometimes it’s funny to look at the links to the older posts from the comment board and look at all the people who have felt the wrath of the ban button.
» itsMurda said: { May 14, 2009 – 03:05:08 }
Ha! What’s your secret to longevity?
She didn’t really say it was perfect. She said you were passionate. I’m passionate about slapping my dick, should I start a blog?
I want to get into Penelope’s Trunks.
…too easy.
I’m impressed, EP. Congrats on the free pub and subsequent ego boost.
“Ha! What’s your secret to longevity?”
Being funny, and cialis.
“A post with passion can actually overcome the curse of a boring topic or a lack of insight, and poor structure on top of all that. For example, here is a rant from the blog, Barstool Sports.”
…umm….was that a compliment to your passion, or a dig on your insight and structure?
Well, 1 out of 2 anyway. ZING
with a name like that, you know she’ll take it in the ass…
Hi Penelope!
wow what publicity!! i bet this will get ten more hits to your site today. she seems almost as relevant as you!
As far as I’m concerned (insert my non-importance here) this is a crock of shit. The link does not work to back up any story writting about El Presidente. So either;
1.) El Presidente should refer to the case of Liar Liar vs. Pants on Fire.
2.) Mommy and Daddy hugged him too much or not enough as a child.
or
3.) The link is down and I’m the @sshole
I’m thinking 3, but would have still liked to be able to read the story ole pal.
#3 dude….. just log off now and walk away….
The link I followed said, and I quote, “Barstoolsports.com is an example of what every blogger should strive for. It’s simple execution plays well to its simple minded audience.”
Not sure what you read SirDavid.
I think we should rate each of your posts, let’s say until tomorrow afternoon, on the 5 criteria. see how you do.
This post gets an A on all 5 categories. we’ll call it dumb luck
SirDavid– Penelope realized what a bad mistake she made and pulled down the article when she received 5,657 friend requests on facebook and 9,678 emails write after EP posted this.
No: “some nobodies opinion”
Yes: “some nobody’s opinion”
I wonder how many junk-in-the-trunk jokes that poor woman has had to weather.
Effewe said: { May 14, 2009 – 03:05:25 }
LOL!
RIGHT*****
fuck, ive been hanging out here too much
I read this – “A post with passion can actually overcome the curse of a boring topic or a lack of insight, and poor structure on top of all that.”
Thanks for the compliment?
I love the part where you say she isn’t a nobody, but the first sentence of the blog is, “Who is Penelope Trunk you ask?”
By the way EP, you should hurry up, cause Lee Child looks like he’s totally about to hit that.
“Come on Hendrie do a guy a favor…I’m tryin’ to bang dis jew broad.”
more credible:
Penelope’s advice vs. El Pres’ mortal locks
Yeah that’s great and all. I think for anyone who first reads this site, they will find it hilarious and quite original. The complaint that I, and many other readers who’ve been here a while, have, is that you are trotting out the same jokes too often. So for a first time reader, it will be awesome, as it was for me. But now I find that you are getting into this pattern of the same jokes.
In addition, there are so many assholes and uninformed people tossing advice and suggestions out to you constantly, that I understand why you have become so antagonistic towards the people in the forums. I would do the same if the forum for my site ripped on me like that (fortunately I keep anonymous so nobody knows who “Admin” is). But I think you are losing out when you don’t accept some of the better criticism and advice from your readers.
ooh-ee,
who says I don’t listen to the advise that makes sense.
Exhibit A – you can not scroll through photos using arrows now. That was a suggestion from a reader that I listened to and paid money to implement. The fact is most people who comment are ignorant assholes. Not all but most.
I think EP forgot to write “IN YO FACE BIATCH!!!”
Pres,
We are ALL assholes.
Signed,
Your Audience
I was going to say, can’t really argue with him there.
Also, I read her post and while she at no point even hints that your blogging is perfect, she does point to one of your underrated strengths, your passion. People love your posts about how hard your life is and how uncool the Astrovan is. I think one of my favorite posts was when you showed pictures of your workarea and we all studied it like the moon landing conspiracy theorists.
Another thing I’ve noticed is your horrible spelling. Nobody is pointing out spelling and grammer mistakes because we think you don’t know anybody. Rather it shows that you don’t even read over your post once to double-check, a sort of Fuck You to the readers that you really are too cool to care about spelling.
You go on and on about how you make no money from this website, yet get all pissed when people offer alternative money-making schemes or give you shirt criticism. You have incredibly loyal readers but you keep a distance between us by being so brash about helpful advice from others and your “don’t give a shit about spelling” attitude. Can’t have it both ways, and if you want people to throw down money on shirts that you whip together in 30 seconds, you would be wise to be more thankful to the people who keep you from getting a real job
Small diversion from silliness:
BC’s Herzlich has cancer. (http://bceagles.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051409aaa.html). I ask that even the anti-SuperFans keep your fingers crossed.
How many “Don’t Worry Be Manny” T-shirts did you have to give her to give you that plug?
Oooh-Ee are you PMS’ing or something? Are you depressed? Go cry some place else!
Nuff said Van Nostrum, thanks I was leaning towards something like that.
It should be noted that Penelope Cruz’ job is giving career advice to people and that she’s been fired several times in the last several years herself, most recently from Yahoo where she wrote their career advice column. Her columns are crap and she’s a complete joke. But congratulations, hopefully your new server can handle all the feminists that are about to find this site and try to crash it!
“A post with passion can actually overcome the curse of a boring topic or a lack of insight, and poor structure on top of all that. For example, here is a rant from the blog, Barstool Sports.”
Talk about self promotion. To me she is saying you talk about boring shit, you are dumb as fuck and your structure is awful. But, you have 1 redeeming quality which is your passion for sports. However, it must be misguided because you suck at gambling.
Oooh-Ee: “Another thing I’ve noticed is your horrible spelling. Nobody is pointing out spelling and grammer mistakes because we think you don’t know anybody.”
Grammer, nice one. When you’re typing and that little red line shows up, that means you misspelled something. Dumbass (which is apparently misspelled).
» ThisFormatBlows said: { May 14, 2009 – 03:05:51 }
and you never talk about sports
ooohee
seriously? everyone used to point them out, but realized it was pointless
if you can still understand it, let it go, it’s not a book you paid for or a newspaper.
man talk about sandy vaginas, you gotta have the sand, crabs and lobsters up in your snatch
Oh, I do agree that most of your commenters are pretty ignorant assholes. Its kind of obnoxious, especially the guys who are actually building up their egos on a tiny little Boston sports comments section (maybe the lamest internet fame possible). Those people make it really hard to see to the good shit.
So maybe I’m wrong and you really do listen to your readers, but all I can tell you is that sometimes you give off the impression you don’t like criticism and thats why I said that.
Ok, if you really are trying to be open, I have a suggestion. You might want to consider teaching yourself a little html and other internet-coding languages. Its really easy to learn and it could save you hundreds of dollars (in addition to allowing you to make changes as soon as you want). Although I am not a huge fan of all of the changes, for the most part I like a lot of what you’ve done and respect that you have put extra time and money into improving your product. You should never be paying anybody else money to design your site, especially because (no offense) the site isn’t really utilizing the latest internet developments and abilities.
Oh, and I apologize for the last post if it seems antagonistic or anything. I was very surprised you responded to my first post in the thread and will try to be less condescending and all-knowing.
One last thing before I go, I promise. I know you obviously don’t agree with this, but I really think the best way to maximize t-shirt profits is to do a little more market research before you design a large order. Sometimes the design is better than the idea, sometimes the idea is good but the graphics stink. I like this whole t-shirt design contest idea. Also, maybe some things other than t-shirts? Maybe some hoodies for dudes (smaller margin of profit but nice big advertising) or sweatpants for girls. I know a ton of girls read this now and that might go pretty far. Thanks for listening and not calling me an ass for criticizing you.
I’ll do it… your an ass!
Ha, I’m not posting this stuff for anybody but Prez. Am I supposed to be offended by the multiple jokes about me having a vagina? I doubt it. Well if you aren’t trying to upset me, then I imagine that is your attempt at being funny.
Bruschimancrush and Icantthinkofanythingfunny: First of all, I’m pretty sure every time I open the comments, BMC has littered the forum with useless posts. You are an internet tough-guy congrats! You post every single day on this site and you are always witty and manly. Clearly you have an amazing social life and get laid by 9s on the reg. I guarantee not a single person even chuckled at your sand, crabs and lobster joke. How long did it take you to come up with that one? Do you high-five guys around the office? God internet-flame wars are soooo much fun. And the other guy, I’m not depressed, I just want el prez to make a lot of money from the site so it never shuts down and I have something to kill time.
First off, who does this bitch think she is? Bloggin’ is like the red-headed stepchild of the journalism world and everybody knows it. So, Penelope “I Take it in the Trunk” Trunk needs to cool it with the, “simple minded audience” shit. I happen to regard myself as a multi-faceted individual that just so happens to like the T&A that The Stool offers daily.
And all the haters need to stop drinkin’ the haterade. Sure EP doesn’t spell words correctly sometimes, sure he doesn’t proofread shit before posting it, but the fact is that bitches are still reading the fuck out of it! So, he must be doing SOMETHING right.
And Oooh E needs some extra strength Midol with that rant. Fuck! I’ll even lend her some. Eases the cramps, backache, and bitchiness! I promise!
Oooh-ee has a vagina, is PMSing and is a fag. got it. next poster who says that gets a free don’t worry be manny shirt. props to the first person who comes up with an insult thats actually funny. (you all have sandy roast beef meat flaps. did i do it right?)
If you post a joke/insult, shouldn’t somebody be insulted or laughing? You guys have pathetic senses of humor. Its like those chicks who make bad jokes then say, “Oh I was joking” when nobody laughs. Its not funny if you have to say its a joke… you probably should have stayed quiet. Saying a dude has a vagina and he needs to stop PMSing or needs Midol will always seem clever to you guys. When nothing else in your life is good, stick to your internet fights with anonymous characters
Who are we kidding, that women is a hack
what I noticed is that she said people usually aren’t good in bed because they lack passion…then she said you had a lot of passion. she wants you in the sack el pres!
Holy shit. When did this turn into The View, starring Oooh-Ee?