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 *NOTE* This was a tough weekend for me.  I’ll get into that perhaps in a future blog or radio show.  We’ll just leave it, that life hasn’t been very pleasant on a personal level for the past several days.  Having said that, I wanted to get out this weekend and just spend some time with some close friends. I really didn’t want to isolate myself inside the Bat Cave.

Summary – Who is Arthur Kade?

Without having to explain who Arthur Kade is; the brief synopsis is that he’s a guy in Philadelphia who is in the midst of trying to become famous. In the process he launched a website earlier in the year http://arthurkade.com/ which chronicles his life and his thoughts on various women, club life, material things, and sordid fashion.  The site includes a lot of pictures of himself with various girls in clubs and his blogs that he writes about how he’s pretty much the best thing since sliced bread and most women are not worthy of even staring at his balls.  In the process he’s been picked up by media all over the world and is a rising star in internet web rankings. I’ll admit, his site is a bit addicting. You can check it out for more details.

Saturday Night – Accidental meeting with Arthur Kade

Both Arthur and I live in the same general area of Philadelphia called Center City (which is the home of Mayor Nutter, City Hall, Cole Hamels, & Richie Sambora). Every once and awhile I do run into Arthur.

He’s been a past guest on my radio show http://www.richardbrianpenn.com/?p=101 .  We circulate in overlapping social circles, but not exactly the same one.  So it’s no coincidence that we’ll occasionally run into each other.  Every time I see him, he’s nothing but nice to me, so it’s hard for me to really hate on the guy.

I popped over to Public House on Saturday night with some friends to celebrate a birthday.  The place was surprisingly packed for summertime (Philly clears out on weekends during the summer as most people go down to the Shore).  I actually enjoy the fact that the city somewhat resembles a ghost town. It’s nice not to hounded by a ton of people asking me for my autograph, begging for me to pose for pictures, men telling me that they’re going to name their first born after me, and well you know on and on with the type of stuff that celebrities like Arthur Kade and I have to deal with.

Arthur walked up to me with a, “What’s up Bro?” followed by the broski handshake and hug. 

I replied with, “What’s up broseph?” (please see my previous blog about bro’s http://www.richardbrianpenn.com/?cat=4) 

We laughed about how I leave comments on his blog all the time and how he hoped I was getting a lot of hits from his site.  We even talked about how I even have developed a more than a few haters from his domain.  However, that’s not really hard to do there.  If you leave a nice comment or have your picture taken with Arthur, you’re most likely going to have some keyboard jockey leave a nasty comment about you.  It’s okay though as it goes with the territory.

He proceeded to tell me about his upcoming trip to L.A. and how there are some big things in the works.  I asked him about a book deal or reality tv show, but he was somewhat hush hush about everything.  I do think that he could make a lot of money writing a book (with a ghost writer of course) entitled, How to Become Famous on the Internet in 30 Days or How I Became the Most Hated Man in the World .

A reality show would be great.  I don’t know if people could stomach a full season, but maybe one of those 60 minute MTV reality documentaries.  It could be entitled, I am the Biggest Douchebag on the Internet .  Now before everyone starts to think I’m being a hypocrite or hating on Arthur; I’m not.  Several weeks ago in the google search engines, Arthur came up as the World’s Biggest Douche (see article http://www.richardbrianpenn.com/?p=301) It seems he’s been supplanted by George W. Bush.  I guess that’s not too bad of company.

He mentioned something about us taking a picture together, but I told him I wanted to drop 10-15 pounds before I even ventured to do that as I’m sure people would leave comments on his site about why Arthur’s taking pictures with the Michelin Man, Pillsbury Bread Dough Boy, or dare I venture to say Oprah? 

I did ask him to come back on the radio show and he said, “Anything I can do to help you out Bro.”

So it’s hard for me to hate Arthur because I accept him for who he is.  Yes, he comes off as a total douchebag on his internet blog, but I think a lot of that comes down to a need for people to pay attention to him, to be loved in some sort of bizarre way, and of all else; to be FAMOUS.

Arthur and I parted ways.  I didn’t see him approach any girls or any girls approaching him.  He danced in place by himself for a little while and then I believe took off to G Lounge.

And that was my chance meeting with Arthur Kade.

(Please NOTE – the part about me being a celebrity was written in jest. I’m just a regular guy and sometimes irregular, but only when I travel to foreign countries)

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