St. Jimmy wrote this entire blog and it's really amazing. It's basically how she started on tv.com, to how she ended. It almost made me cry...really.
Here it is. I wanted to share it will y'all.
The Legend of St. Jimmy I remember joining TV.com on the ninth of January in the year of 2006. It was a Monday, and we hadn’t had school that day because of a terrible ice storm. All day I hung out inside, bored as crap, not having anything to do. I was watching The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in the evening sometime, and I remember thinking, “Boy, Mr. Moseby is sure cute.” I quickly became obsessed and I sought out more information on the show. I found a website called TV.com later that evening and joined as Zack_Rules, since Zack was pretty much my favorite character at the time. I found the TSL message board and I was aggravated that I couldn’t post. And I couldn’t send private messages either, because something about the system was effed.
Soon I could post on the forums. The first thing that I did was create a thread called “If you think Phill Lewis is cute or hot, CLICK HERE!”. That thread must have reached three hundred posts and it was where I got my start. I met BradvsSheldon and a3glick, two incredibly great new friends of mine. BvS generally shared the same opinion as I did, but A3 was more into Cole and Dylan Sprouse. Then some idiot posted in there saying Lewis was ugly, and I flipped out on him. That kind of thing almost got my in trouble. I remember asking BvS and A3 about sigs and stuff, and why my PMs wouldn’t work. I was so angry…
Soon, everything kicked into gear and I had a rockin’ signature eventually. By this time, I’d gotten to know Dark_Eagle80 a little bit and I’d started my second thread: “Would you like to join the Cole Sprouse Fan Club?” That was my real start, where people got to know me as the one in love with Phill Lewis. I think about fourteen people joined. UlrichndYumiFan was one – Kelly. And another was…Xtremejet. I’ll get back to XJ later on, though. Kelly and I quickly became friends and we claimed we were “twins” because we believed we were so alike. Soon, I was holding elections for the secretary, vice president, and president of the Cole Club. I think A3 was secretary, but I know Kelly was VP. When the elections for president arose, people nominated XJ. I remember the first PM I received from him, too: “Hey, can I drop out of the race for president of the Cole Sprouse Fan Club?”
It’s remarkable that I remember that. So he was out of the race and I was elected president. Fancy that. Over this time I began to meet more and more new people. Soon after the Cole Club died out, the first off-topic lounge appeared. I never really posted in it. I just posted in other threads most of the time. But finally, when the thread was nearing four hundred posts, I went in and said, “Hey.” Just like that. A solemn greeting. I got lots of “Hey!”’s back. People asked who I was, and I replied, “I guess you can call me Zack.” Or something along those lines. That I can’t remember.
The OT lounge sparked it. That was where I got to know/met suite_life_rox, suitelife19, Xtremejet, cool_dude, and numerous others. People thought I was weird for loving Phill Lewis, but I shrugged it off, and eventually my crush on him died out completely and I took a liking to Cole Sprouse. Then I was accepted for getting rid of this weird feeling. I became literally OBSESSED with Cole till I knew everything about him.
Ahhhh, the OT lounge. What blessed memories I cherish from it. XJ’s chainsaw, Jimmy, was used there quite often. And as soon as I discovered SLR was obsessed with Green Day, I remembered that I had a copy of American Idiot. So I became obsessed with the band and I took an extreme liking to Mike Dirnt, which I still own today. I was crazy over him, and it was clear SLR was in love with Tre Cool. I used to insult her for loving him. This was before I loved each member of the band. But then she insulted me right back for loving Mike…until we both agreed that they were both hot and all that crap.
While still obsessed with Green Day, my fame grew on the TSL boards. XJ introduced to me the Funny List – which he topped off, of course, closely followed by Kelly. But I remember the night that I gained Kelly’s beloved spot on the list, the night I proved to XJ and I could be hilarious. I was making fun of SGuy, and doing a damn good job at it, too. XJ and I became fast friends, always talking and having fun over the net. The dude got obsessed with Green Day as well over time. I remember the day, too: he posted some lyrics to “St. Jimmy” in my blog once, and I freaked and said, “You like Green Day?!” and he said, “Yeah.”
I became St. Jimmy after that.
Soon I met SuiteLifeXxX9. Oh my Lord. What a crazy person. After a while, though, we became friends. In the summer, at night, I’d go on TV.com and post the same message when I came on the OT lounge at night: “Yo!” People would be happy that I was there, saying, “Yayz. St. Jimmy’s on!” Especially XJ.
June 2006 – Dylan Sprouse club. This one quickly died, too. I barely remember this one, because it only lasted probably a week. The Green Day one barely lasted too, but who needed those dumb fan clubs? I expressed my huge love to Mike Dirnt by putting thousands of avatars of him in my sig.
And then…there was the internet dating bug that everyone got hit with. Well, most people. Cool_Dude and SL19 were “dating”, and I’m not sure, but CD said it was a prank or something. Kelly told me she liked XJ, and something about that got me to think that I loved him, though I didn’t. So those two “went out” for a while. And don’t deny it, XJ, you know you did. Then the weirdest thing came up: I got involved with CD for probably four days. I realized that that was somewhat aggravating after he “broke up” with me. Internet dating is just gay…
By August, I had reached ultimate fame. I was top dawg over there, alongside XJ, of course. I was pure badass. I was elite over at TV.com. I had tight relationships with tons of people. I was at the highest of heights. But I lost all of this on one fateful night, when a group of the TSL board junkies decided we’d go over to the Hannah Montana boards for a little trolling.
I got busted. Big time. What it was, was the message “TSL KICKS THIS SHOW’S ASS!” in huge black letters, in all caps. About ten people there reported me. That night, I had fun, but it all ended around midnight when I received that fateful PM notifying me that I was banned.
Chain reaction: Kelly put in her blog that I got banned, and some other people did too. I was the first ever to actually get banned. I had been suspended seven days and three days before then. The people who slipped by without getting banned decided they’d leave since I was gone and I realized how popular I was at the TSL forums. That was when I knew I’d never be able to go back. TV.com had erased me.
That happened the twelfth of August, 2006. I tried going back twice, but got banned both times again. The second time was only just recently, last week, in fact. Since I got banned the first time, I’ve been addicted to MySpace and particular Harry Potter RPG’s. But I still check up on TV.com and read people’s blogs every once in a while. I miss it so much. I miss going to the boards when people would be posting at the speed of light. I miss living my online life on the edge, on the verge of getting banned. I should have learned from my suspensions. I should have learned to tone down. But I didn’t, and my own stupidity got me banned.
I’ll never forget the year of 2006. I’ll never forget it, ever, not a day in my life. The place changed my life, almost.
I’ll see you guys around. Join SGuy’s new site;
http://rewrittentales.proboards50.com/. I play Colton Cage.
Miss you all.
Your friend,
St. Jimmy
:cry: I talk to her everyday and still I miss her...
~Kelly
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