I occasionally reflect openly about this here website. This is one of those times. Now, this post isn’t, in and of itself, ultra special but it IS a notch-below-ultra special. This is the 1000th post in halfguarded.com history!
That’s why I wanted this post to be reflective of everything that makes this site great. Tongue in cheek titles; MMA; blatant attempts to show attractive women; comic books; bears; and some smart stuff.
Now, the tongue in check title part has been done with, well, the title! As such, we turn ourselves to area to the main area of focus for this site: mixed martial arts. Easily the most wonderful sport on earth, I could (and kind of have) write about MMA for hours and days and weeks and months on end. Instead, how about I show you a cool animated gif of some badass MMA stuff? Maybe even more than one!
We’ve taken pride in showing the female form. In a time when men aren’t men, we are manly men. We like women and proudly exploit them at every turn. Sure, this inevitably ostracizes us from half the population on earth but we’re talking a sex that has barely voted for a century. Dudes? We been running things forever. I think HG will be fine showing women. Plus, I think it’s sexist to NOT show them. That’s right, admiring a woman for simply being a woman is truly a feminist approach to life.
Next up, comic books! I don’t know if there’s a real connection between your average MMA fan and average comic book fan. I also don’t care. One day, when I’m rich and famous and people read this site and see my finger prints they’ll realize it stands as insight into the mind of a genius. Until then, look at cool comic book photos!
Bears. I like bears. I’m part bear in fact. From defending a fellow bear from the heinous accusations of raping Leonardo DiCaprio to just showing bears do things, halfguarded.com has always been strongly pro-bear. Enjoy this video of a bear playing tetherball.
Finally, I’m proud that for all the irreverence, and exploitation, and vulgarity (my own mother isn’t allowed to visit because she’d be really disappointed in herself for having raised such a bad kid), HG also does produce some really smart content. I won’t tout my stuff – even though some is ground breaking journalism that forever changes the way MMA is perceived – but instead just remind you that we’ve very proudly featured pieces on everything from the homeless problem in America to rising tuition costs to once even life blogging a GOP debate.
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What else is newsworthy is how big the site is getting. On January 1st, I noted to everyone that we’d recently reached 100,000 hits on the site (and even more page views!). That was pretty good for a little engine that couldn’t that started in July and had a whopping 4000 hits the first month. But, things have changed since then. We’re not even done with the month of February and are now over 200,000 hits!!!!!!!! The last two months have average more than 50,000 hits. I really don’t know how this is possible but I think it says something about the internet in general.
None of this would be possible without the staff. Sure, yours truly is a genius and makes this all run but every contributor – be they regular or irregular – is awesome. And this bad boy is only going to get bigger as you can see the Comic Conversation lads doing regular interviews with actual important people and maybe one day I’ll stop being lazy and do the same. (It’s not lack of access to fighters so much as it is lack of effort, I admit.)
This whole endeavor was basically started because I’m pretty sure Fat Tony and Brother Brian wanted to give me something to do to keep me busy because when I’m bored I tend to do stupid things. It has since grown into this magical beast that’s … real. Maybe one day, we’ll even all be rich off of it. (Note to those other sites that buy places like this: WE WILL SELL OUR SOULS TODAY!)
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And at the end of this piece will be word 1000 of article 1000 so I want to make it count. THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Penis.
Congrats. I have enjoyed your writings and humor since finding this place recently. Keep it up.