What’s a Pajiba?
Pajiba was established by Dustin Rowles in 2004 as a small political blog. After turning focus to film and television, we eventually became much more than a small “blog.” With a robust international audience we feature a variety of voices from different backgrounds across the United States, Canada, Europe, and even South America. These days, the website primarily covers film, television, politics, and celebrity culture.
Ok, you say, but that still doesn’t cover what a “Pajiba” is. Fair enough. Dustin wrote about it at length here, but the short version is: it’s a made-up nonsense word that was ultimately used for the website simply to win a stupid college “competition” among friends. So, you know, the best kind of competition.
In the midst of this competition, however, I once suggested to Timmy that my word was so much better than his that, when I got older, I would start a company, and I would name it Pajiba, and my word would definitively win our competition.
Seven years later, that’s exactly what I did.
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