Why Does My Tea Taste Like TheraFlu?

Yeah, that's what I said. This glass of tea I am drinking tastes like TheraFlu, one of the most disgusting hot medicines I have ever tasted in my life. In fact, when I had the flu all those years ago and I desperately tried the TheraFlu, I nearly vomited immediately because I felt like I was drinking a cup of fresh, hot vomit. How is that supposed to soothe a kid with a stomach flu? Horrible.

Besides that, I want to take up an issue with you readers, since I know every single one of you regularly check these blogs to see what we have to complain about THIS time. These article submissions... We have to talk.

I am guessing those of you who have submitted writings to us have read over the Writing Submission Guidelines. Or, you have noticed that we are accepting submissions and immediately sent them to us without giving enough of a fuck to actually read what we had to say to you on the matter. Let me remind you of some of the more important parts:

1.) We said about 4500 times that you had better proofread your own material, because we are a lot less forgiving than we used to be. So what do we get? Submissions with the email messages starting off with "Okay, this isn't proofread or anything," that is what we get. Baffling.

2.) We aren't really looking for worn out, tired, unfunny, or unoriginal material. Please stop sending it.

3.) Keep trying. Just because Mark had to write you a rejection letter doesn't mean that you should despair. Practice makes perfect and everything like that. Just please practice a lot until you think you have something that is actually great and THEN send it to us. Don't send us the practice drafts.

I am already getting distracted from my list of submission-related complaints! What else do I have on the shelves in the bitter old woman part of my brain? Oh, yes! As some of you may remember, I have a ferret now named Huxley. Since I take the responsibility of being a pet owner quite seriously, I have done things like join Ferret Information Mailing Lists and such here on the Internet. I am getting a lot of good information on the care of pet ferrets, but I am also getting a lot of rage from reading some of these terrible posts in it. Mostly, my anger and contempt is aimed at the sort of people who feel that it is cute and even necessary to pretend to be their own pet emailing the group. That is awful in the first place, but even worse is that they can never seem to give the pet an intelligent tone of voice! It is always child-like and monumentally retarded in nature, being very simple and rife with god-awful mispellings. It makes me want to react with violence. But instead, I will probably just be inspired to finally write an article for this next update. That's a piece of good news so far in this blog entry. Go, me!

I'll just take a moment now to complain about the OMGJ Radio Endeavor and WoW before I end this.

Yes. Right. So everyone here at OMGJ is mostly in an excited whirl over this Radio Potential. Or at least, they tell me that they are. And yet no one is really even working on it. It seems that various games (mostly World of Warcraft, of course. STILL) seem to keep many of us people busy. Not me, of course, but again I am not the most excited about this project in our group. Don't get me wrong, I am happy about the chance, but my lifelong dream has not been to be on a radio program. So, hopefully, we will snap out of it and figure shit out quickly, or else I will have to nag and complain some more. Because that is all I am good for on certain days, you know.

God damn.