Goodbye to all that
I resigned my highly unpaid contributor position at Topfive.com and the Daily Probe today. I've been a contributor since the end of '98, those heady days when a President was being excommunicated, and the internet was still (just) small enough for a lame-o distributed "Top 10"-style humor list to get a little attention.
No more.
The internet has grown at an amazing pace; Top5 is now a backwater that recycles the same attitude (and, to a certain extent, gags) that it was running 6 years ago, when my daughter was born. Somehow, seeing my name on those lists just doesn't carry the same frisson that it used to. It's not you that changed, it's me. Let's move on.
It must also be said that Topfive's news organ, The Daily Probe, has gotten more, not less, embarrassing over the years. And, yes, I probably contributed mightily to that. But considering that there are at least a dozen humor blogs that eat their lunch on a daily basis (hell, Jim Treacher's comments section is a better daily read), I can only consider it a huge waste of time.
So, goodbye, topfive. Thanks, it was an...okay run. I think my greatest moment was from the very start, my #1 entry in the "TopFive Changes in the Redesigned Twenty Dollar Bill." I still larf at that sometimes.