rants – Page 3 – The Bloggess

I can’t tell if I won this argument or lost it. I’d feel better if I at least had nachos.

Conversation with my husband: Victor: Look at this video. It’s about a company that invented a tool that lets you drive using only your mind. me: Awesome. I’m so glad we’re making such huge advances in the field of driving-a-car-without-hands. It’s good that the scientists have a new priority now that they’ve found a cureContinue reading “I can’t tell if I won this argument or lost it. I’d feel better if I at least had nachos.”

What’s really sad is that about 80% of this email exchange actually happened.

Slightly paraphrased email thread between myself and a marketing company that is trying to destroy me: Dear Blogger: We have an exciting new breakthrough to tell you about in the field of something we’d realize that you are completely against if we bothered to even read your blog. If you are interested in writing forContinue reading “What’s really sad is that about 80% of this email exchange actually happened.”

And this is exactly why I don’t trust PR people.

Okay, so last week I got an email asking if I was interested in interviewing Katherine Heigl and I ignored it because I’m irresponsible. I also ignored the email I got on the same day asking if I wanted to interview the guy who plays Sportacus on Lazy Town (true story). The Lazy Town personContinue reading “And this is *exactly* why I don’t trust PR people.”

UPDATED: My new year’s resolution is to get you to stop asking me about my new year’s resolutions.

People keep asking me what my New Year’s resolutions are and I tell them that I don’t have any and then they get all pissy because they assume that I think I don’t need to change but it’s really just that I’m too bored with myself to invest any more time thinking about me, andContinue reading “UPDATED: My new year’s resolution is to get you to stop asking me about my new year’s resolutions.”

UPDATED: That last one was a bluff so it’s probably good that they passed. I can’t even keep a dog alive, much less a sasquatch.

Paraphrased email between me and a marketer. The sad thing is that this is only slightly paraphrased: Them: We would like to buy a text ad on your blog. me: Ok. It’s $75. Them: We will write a guest post on your blog with 4 embedded links to our product. We will give you $15.Continue reading “UPDATED: That last one was a bluff so it’s probably good that they passed. I can’t even keep a dog alive, much less a sasquatch.”

Does Boone’s Fine Apple Wine count as produce? I say yes.

So this weekend I was in the liquor store buying produce and I noticed that on the top of the tequila isle there were these giant bottles of tequila shaped exactly like life-sized rifles. And I was all “OMG, I MUST HAVE ONE” and Victor was like “Um…no. I’m not buying you a rifle fullContinue reading “Does Boone’s Fine Apple Wine count as produce? I say yes.”