Fan mail from some flounder
"Joe Smith" writes:
just thought i'd let you know why i won't be visiting your site any more (ifReally? We were pretty well thought out?
you don't care please just delete this now).
you used to have a pretty well thought out site, lots of pointed and
applicable comment on current events.
lately, say over the past couple of months, the site seems to have very
little factual content - just a lot of senseless name calling and not much
substance at all.
it's not the thought-provoking content it used to be.
now it's boring garbage.
Joe
Well, my mom would agree about the name-calling, but I'll tell you, Joe, it's like this: I work all day at a job that sucks, and when I get home I'm usually pretty exhausted from dealing with morons in the office and even bigger morons on the road. So excuse me if I'm not cogent and pithy on a 24-hour basis solely for your enjoyment. I would love to sit around in my pjs all day, knocking back rum 'n diet cokes and surfing the intertubes to find the best way to entertain you, but unless some rich guy falls over dead and leaves me his fortune it ain't gonna happen. Plus the much-lauded WTF stable of writers includes only me and DivaGeek, and I'm pretty sure she has a life, too. In other words...... well, I'll be nice. But thanks for writing, asshat!
32 comments:
Poor Maru. Do you need a hug? Don't mourn for Joe Blow, and don't let him get to you. I read you every day and just like you some days in my life are better than others. On my worst days it is a treat to look at the beautiful pictures, read your rants and wish my photography and my cursing were as creative. I don't always need pithy analysis, incisive commentary or brilliant exposition. Just calling bullshit where bullshit is happening will do quite nicely, thank you very much.
Your mom loves you, and so do many others. Keep at it, make me smile. PS: Here's that hug, virtual though it may be.
I enjoy the prose--clearly profane, but in a creative and humerous way. Sometimes I am just in stiches. Were you a sailor in another lifetime?
Dear Maru, I just want you to know that working for a living makes blogging so much more of a fucking challenge. That said, you are second to none in your creative interpretations of terms like "asshat." The partner saw the previous asshat and said, "The feather is in the wrong place," and then laughed hard enough to drool.
I love you just the way you are. Please don't change a thing -- unless of course you could add even more content every day. Yours is always my first or second stop in blogotopia. Your contributions are uniquely poetic. Thanks.
You know we adore you, Maru.
I'm guessing that most of us work at sucky jobs and battle even more cretins on the daily commute. Or I could be alone...
I don't know where you found the creativity and the stamina to keep this site going, but please, please...we NEED you.
If Joe has'nt already fucked him himself I would strongly encourage him to do so. I love your snark and am constantly stealing your made up names to add to my own repartee.
I think the fact that you work for a living gives you a better perspective on the bullshit. I read you first and often twice.
You wouldn't be the Maru we all know and love if you played by Joe's rules.
Buh-bye Joe!
Hey Maru, I am somewhat concerned
about this joe blow. For me, a 65
year old, x marine,x army, and
living my life just like you, I have enjoyed your site for some
time, and it has just gotten better
with the fab pic's, so to you, I
tip my hat, and to joe, don't let
the door hit you in the ass as you
leave.
What the hell is he talking about "over the past couple of months"? Your site has always had the rude blogosity in spades. That's why I read it. And I love my job and STILL I love to read Maru.
Every post is another gift. For that I continue to thank you.
You are the ultimate in snarkiness. Love ya. Like others before me have said, a definite daily read. I also have turned you on to friends of mine. They love you also. Sorry your job sucks. Virtual hugs all around. I was kinda worried about you, but gald you are back. ;)
You're still my favorite. Love the graphix
Your great
I love you guys!
xxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want some well thought out intellectual spew - I want to read how you twist and stretch the Rethugs to make me laugh while I'm still reeling from their stupidity and ruthlessness. Keep doin' what you're doin. You may have lost Joe, but you gained me and many others.
Nice response, Maru, I love you too, but then again, you already knew that.
Don't change a thing. You're wonderful. I'm so grateful that you make me laugh, EVERY time I vist.
I strongly agree with the 17 previous posts -- I think your content has remained the same excellent mix of incisive satire, snark, disdain, excellent/unique political snippets and links, rude/crude names for rude/crude people (ie; is it proportionally correct to refer to someone who intentionally starts a war resulting in 100's of thousands dead as 'socially maladjusted' or 'a fucking asshat'?), and cats, with the occassional interesting pix/You-tube. And your output is really great for someone holding down a job!
Maybe 'Joe Smith' changed (and doesn't recognize it) because I certainly don't see any negative changes in WTF over the past 3 or 4 yrs I've been reading it.
i just like the pictures, maru.
I use 3 computers over the course of the day and your blog's link is at the TOP of my favorites list in each machine as it has been for the last 2 years or so.
nuff said.
"So excuse me if I'm not cogent and pithy on a 24-hour basis solely for your (my) enjoyment."
Then WTF are you here for then?
Used to date a witty gal that worked part time at a Thai bar. Not Thai herself though. Half Palauan, half Ukrainian, wow. All doll.
One day, after a particularly lengthy stream of sarcasm from the ladies behind the bar while I was shooting pool, I said: "You know, I don't come in here just to be abused", to which came the immediate replay: "Then what the fuck do you come in here for, hahahahahahaha?"
Asked for that one.
Maru, suggestion: Increase the dosage.
A joke dear.
Hey, Joe,
Suck it, fark off and DIAF!
ditto to anonymous above. Maru, you are the best - first place I look on the internets.
I love the asshat. I love your collection of animals, inside and outside. I love the "knob" picture of bush, especially the version that has him in water wings and a happy helmet.
Nobody can touch you, kiddo. Hang in there!
Don't you dare change anything for Joe! You're perfect.
Why don't you take advertising here and quit your job?
Maru, your site is my very favorite. I come home from work, load it up and laugh myself silly. As a matter of fact, it is family reading time for us! I have 2 teenagers and they like me to read it to them while they do homework. Thank you for taking the time to make us smile during such a dire time in our country's history. We need a little snark to get us through the day and you provide that in spades!
oh please -- if it weren't enough that you make me laugh out loud almost everyday,
if it weren't enough that I love the photos and graphics,
if it weren't enough that yours is the first blog I read when I turn on the box
the bonus is that i regularly link your stuff in emails to all my asshat conservative "friends", the fact that you enrage them so just makes my day better everytime.
don't ever change -- you make my day
checking, hmmmmmm
joe j - o - e, checking
NOPE! HE WASN'T EVEN ON THE INVITATION LIST!
what's he doing here to begin with? sorry sad sack. no sense of humor and OBVIOUSLY no memory.
Maru, you need better bouncers and body guards, he's not sposed to be in here!
this site ROCKS. i ALWAYS get giggles here, and i visit daily and sometimes twice on my treck around the left blogosphere and i couldn't LIVE without WTF!
and how the hells a girl SPOZED to talk with all this chit goin on in this country? CHRIST ON A CRABCAKE!
you keep it up Maru. And my best to divageek too. we'd be lost without ya, and JOE?
BITE ME!
siri
Maru - I know what times of day you post and still check at other times to make sure I haven't missed anything you've said. You are my favorite blog - more than once I have laughed out loud at the photos and captions you give them and my favorites are pasted all over my cube. You would be just more snark if your commentary and outrage wasn't so dead-on.
Holy Batshit, Batman! What an idiot Joey must be cause, Dude, you ROCK. I absolutely crack up reading your blog and think it a wonder that you produce it on top of normal life. I am an umemployed grandmother with lots of time and can't hit one quarter the quality you effortlessly breath onto the web! You and Diva do not need to give Joey-Dimwit another thought, tho' possibly a finger might work ok!
thanks again, you guys -- I love you all!
Maru, you rock.
Joe just needs to download a sense of humor. I wish him luck with that.
Maru, life's too short to work at a job you hate.
Find something better.
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