Reader response, engagement

My last post about me getting engaged caused quite a commotion among the people who read my blog. The reaction that pops out more often than others goes something to the effect of "Really?" or "Are you serious?" or "Judas!".

I mean, Wow. I never imagined that in the first hour or so of me putting up that post, I'd be systematically harassed by you cretins.

My favorites would definitely have to be:

sanjamarnani: dude dont tell me ur getting emo on your ex!
sanjamarnani: i thought it was all sex no strings
sanjamarnani: mexicans!

(couple of minutes later…)

sanjamarnani: the great Mike "Fucking" Villar? engaged?
sanjamarnani: whoever thought they'd see the day
sanjamarnani: ur serious?
sanjamarnani: dude are you really mike "fucking" engaged now?

(couple of HOURS later…)

sanjamarnani: i just cant get over it
sanjamarnani: mike villar- engaged
sanjamarnani: i always thought you'd tie the knot at around 30 ish

Sanjay, dude, I would've replied to you but I was busy making personal phone calls, taking two hour lunches and basically pretending to be working because at the rate I'm going with my progress on the job, I would be fired in two weeks. Tops.

So to recap: You are a stupid Indian who owes me money (remember that time with the proboscis monkey, two bottles of tequila and a Yugoslavian comfort girl?), I didn't reply to your IM's because I'm a self-centered, self-aggrandizing fraud of a man. And yes, I AM engaged.

Leah had this to say:

Leah Francisco: your last post was so sweet…..so not you
Leah Francisco: i've always known that below that crude exterior, it's all mush

This is what I fear would happen if I tell you guys that I'm getting engaged. Honestly, the posts in this blog revolve around a small number of jokes I overuse ad nauseam. I didn't have anything much to work with to begin with: It's always something to the effect of "I'm fat", "I'm not getting any sex", "I masturbate a lot", and "I'm lonely".

Seriously guys, are you afraid that if I take out all the "I'm lonely" and "I'm not getting any sex" jokes my blog would jump the shark and render me incapable of churning out funny shit? I mean there's still the lethal combination of the "I'm Fat" and "I masturbate a lot" jokes isn't there? And of course there's always the moderately funny inappropriate racist jokes I throw in from time to time.

I guess what I'm saying is–PLEASE DON'T STOP READING MY BLOG AND SENDING ME NAKED PICTURES OF YOU DANCING WITH THE POPE!– please love me.

Adam Mordo had this to say on his blog:

…I am definitely no  Mike f@cking Villar,
who in my opinion is a far better blogger than I can ever hope to be.
His reason for not having posted as much as he normally does is not
only undeniably valid, it is perhaps the biggest piece of recent news
in the local blogging scene. Read all about it, in his very own words, RIGHT HERE!…

Biggest piece of recent news in the local blogging scene. Gold.

But this email easily takes the cake:

Wow.