Hello!
Monday, May 4, 2009 at 10:38AM 
Hello and welcome to the Marty Wombacher Show! If you don’t know who I am, please proceed to the About Me, go on, we’ll wait. Those of you who already know me, you can entertain yourselves by watching this fun video (it’s timely and swinely!)--video, while the others read all about me. And don’t you love it how I assume droves of people are reading this, oh well, a guy can dream can’t he? Anyway, I’ll meet you all back here in a little bit.
(A little bit later.) Okay, now that we’ve established who I am, I’d like to establish what I’m doing with this website. Quite simply, I’m doing what I’ve always done, I’m just fucking around. When contacted by Matt Haber of the New York Observer regarding my last issue of Natalie Word, Adam Moss, the editor of New York magazine wondered what sort of point I was trying to make. That quote inspired a lot of laughter by friends of mine, because most people who know me, know I pretty much live my life to just fuck around with shit. Often with no point intended. And now, with this website, I can now do it on several levels. I will now explain these levels.
The Daily Post. The Daily Post, the section you’re currently in, is going to be random thoughts, essays, humor columns, links to video clips, what I’m having for lunch, what other people are having for lunch and lots of other ideas and mind nuggets I’ll think of as time goes on. Basically this is just going to be a potpourri of writing and things springing from my cranium. Today this will be the only post, since it’s the start of this whole project, but starting tomorrow, The Daily Post will be updated several times throughout the day. And speaking of updates, most of the updates will start popping up right around noon every day. I work a night job, so I sleep a little later than most people. I try and get up around the crack of noon.
The Daily Photo. This is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a photo (usually taken in New York City) that I’ll post along with a caption. This will be updated once a day, again probably around noon.
Condensed Gossip. So many gossip blogs and websites these days are just a quick paragraph or two with a link to the actual piece in another gossip column. I guess it’s because there’s such a glut of gossip these days. Since this is a one-man show, I’m going to be extremely busy, so I thought I’d take the quick update idea a step further for my gossip page and present Condensed Gossip, which takes a look at some of the day’s gossip in one line or less and gives the reader a link to the source. Like the page says, it’s gossip in one line or less, because who’s got time for this shit? Not me.
fishwrap. Fishwrap is going to be somewhat of a web version of what fishwrap the magazine was, basically a vehicle for me to write and/or make fun of mainstream media. I won’t always be as timely as some of the other media websites (today’s Esquire post is making fun of last month’s issue) as I have to write the bulk of the fishwrap material on the weekends as updating the other pages daily and working eight hours a night won’t allow me to write much material throughout the week, but it’ll be the same fishwrap you knew and loved back when it was print. And I’m also going to feature some posts about websites, blogs and other people’s status updates from social sites I’m on. It’s all the news that’s fish to print.
Photoblog. This section will be me travelling to some destination (usually in New York) while taking pictures and then documenting the trip with pictures and captions within the Photoblog. I used to do this on my blog on MySpace and people really seemed to like it, so I thought I’d keep up the tradition here. It’s a lot of work, so it’ll just be updated about twice a month.
The news, product and sponsor pages are what they are and really need no explanation, besides my head’s starting to hurt thinking about all the work this is going to be.
Oh, and each page has a subscription link if you want to be notified everytime I update it. Subscriptions are free.
And so like a hamster stepping onto a wheel that never stops turning, it’s time for the Marty Wombacher Show! Enjoy!
P.S. The main updates will be done Monday through Friday with light updates over the weekend as I write my fishwrap material for the upcoming week (and also squeeze in a beer or twelve. Cheers!) Oh and leave comments if you are so moved, I’d love to see what you think of the show.
P.S.S. One more thing, I rented a post office box and every Friday I’m going to check it and do a posting on what people have sent me. So if you’d like to send me something and then see it on the website, here’s the address:
The Marty Wombacher Show
P.O. Box 395
New York, NY • 10113
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Reader Comments (8)
Congratulations! It's showtime! Cheers and best of luck with the show!
Send you panties, stuff like that?
Congratulations on today's launch and see you in NYC soon!
Marty, Love it. And I for one plan on
sending you lots of JUNK mail. HA!
If we do send you oversized packages,
you o.k. w/that? Like refrigerators?
This if very exciting and inspiring.
Xo Ms CosMod
i'm going to send you all of my bills. and an occasional larry, for good measure.
Bravo Marty, bravo.
HELLLOOOOOO?!?!??
I was wondering... what sort of point are you trying to make?
HAHAAA!!
I like this a lot, Marty. And 100% Tom-Free!
Marty
Just stopping by to check out the new "digs".
Hope to contribute some smartassery to the place.
"Boris"