I made this page for telling you my blog storey. If you came to this page looking for a storey, then by crikey you got yourself a STOREY. If you came to this page for any other reason, I hope a giant tapeworm attacks you in the butt.

Now about that storey.

You are currently wasting your time on a site that started out as a Blogger blog back in March 2009. You can still go there if you want… for about ten seconds.

I think I was pretty well whiskied up when I chose The Jesting Fool as a name. Yes, it’s stupid. No, I don’t know what it means, but there is one possible clue in 19th-century Scottish minister Horatius Bonar’s hymn “Companionship,” which incorporated that phrase.

Clue #2 – Yahweh’s holy halitosis makes a reference to foolish talking and jesting in its scatterbrained and redacted collection of barbaric ideas that some people still like to classify as culturally relevant literature.

The Jesting Fool’s original content varied – from satire to lame attempts at creativity to insane rants and raves – but basically I was using the blog to vent a lot of anti-religious bitterness that had been building up in me and finally exploded like a suicide bomber, except without all the little pieces of flesh and gore and shattered particles of narrow-minded gray matter flying around.

The main point – I used to be a very pious Christian, but now I’m just another hopelessly confused atheist on his way to Satan’s sulfur spa.

So anyways. After doing it bloggy style for awhile, I discovered WordPress and kicked myself really hard in the balls for selecting such an unattractive blogfuckbuddy. A double testicle transplant followed shortly thereafter, and once the juices were flowing again I decided to self-host my blog and migrate everything over to WordPress.

That was in June 2009. Trying to understand how the hell all that hosting stuff worked cost me hours of frustration, but I finally got things figured out. I can only attribute my raging success to my lofty standards of intoxication and the meticulous attention I devoted thereto.

I kept the site active until the end of September, or was it October, I can’t remember exactly because I was almost continuously drunk or hungover throughout the second half of 2009.

During this whole time period I had somehow managed to win a following of approximately five readers.

One day my brain seized up on me. Why the fuck am I writing this blog, I thought. It’s not helping me get off, that’s what the porn’s for. Maybe I’ll just delete some really important files here and there, and then we’ll see who’s awesome (ME) and whose directories just got booted from the server (BLOG).

So The Jesting Fool died. BUT NOW I have brought it back to life and made it an heir to all the blessings of 1) a new web host that doesn’t actively swindle its own customers, and 2) a site redesign that doesn’t suck nearly as much as it should, considering how little I know about Internet stuff.

And that is my storey.

Welcome to The Jesting Fool, here’s your giant butt tapeworm, have a good day.

Also, (sex) read this post (sex!) for a little more (SEX) background.