I did ask… well Big Brain did anyway
(If you don’t know who Big Brain is you should probably read this post first or what follows likely won’t make much sense to you. Go ahead, we’ll wait.)
Big Brain submitted The Hags to a blog reviewing website called Ask and Ye Shall Receive a while back. For those of you who don’t know the site, the reviewers over there are fairly upfront with their true feelings… let’s just say they can be kinda harsh if they don’t like a blog. I think that’s a fair statement. It’s kinda scary over there.
Making it even more intimidating to submit your blog is the fact that each of them is an extremely talented writer. So it’s not like you’re asking the opinion of some hack who can’t string two sentences together. But you know Big Brain… into the fray he jumped with nary a moment’s pause for common sense.
When Big Brain informed me what I had done… well… I thought he had lost my mind:
Me: What were you thinking? They are really good writers over there and we just blather on and on about all kinds of crap. Half of the crap we post doesn’t even make any sense.
Big Brain: Oh… yeah… that’s true. But we’ve got all the stuff Stace writes working in our favor. And they’re sooo cool. I just wanted the cool kids to like me. I’m kinda cool, right?
Me (snorting): Uhhh… no… no you’re not. You’re not cool at all. You’re a big old doofus… we’re both big old doofuses or doofi or whatever. They’re going to skin us alive. Lord help us.
Big Brain: They do occasionally like a blog, you know. Maybe they’ll like us. And we’ll become one of the cool kids and sit at their table during lunch and crack jokes with them in the back of the class…
Me (rolling eyes): Maybe they will like us… maybe they will. (smothered snort)
Stace didn’t seem too confident, either, when I told her what Big Brain had done. And as the scary weeks crawled by, even Big Brain seemed to develop misgivings and kept asking if we could un-submit The Hags. Thinking it would be a good life-lesson for Big Brain to take his painfully public spanking with grace, I said no we were not going to ask to un-submit Hags. Then I told him he had better start coming up with a really good “I just got spanked over at Ask and Ye Shall Receive” post. Big Brain started sulking.
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Then the day arrived. This last Friday we were finally reviewed. Gulp. Took a deep breath and went over to read the review. And she was too kind. Seriously… too kind. It was a great review. Much better than even Big Brain at his most delusional had imagined. Now Big Brain has been all prancing around the head chanting “Love Bites thinks I’m coooool” all weekend. Good lord there may be no controlling him at all now. Thanks, Love Bites, thanks a lot.
I like Big Brian. Uh…well…actually I like YOUR Big Brian and OTHER PEOPLE’S Big Brian. My own Big Brian is something along the lines of Gengis Khan (but without as many weapons or war plans) and can be a total PIA.
So…Big Brian did a good thing with the ‘Ask’ submission. Because he got to feel all good (very rightly so) and because Gengis Khan got to, once again, use ‘Ask’ to do all of his work when it comes to looking for good blogs to read. Gengis is lazy like that.
Hedon and Stace: you deserved the good words! Quality will out!
But plz do keep the “recent comments” feature since you are drawing new readers who feel comfortable enough to comment back and not just lurk — that’s impressive; says a lot about your blog — and it’s fun to see what they say about the older posts.
You both write so well, think through events and situations even better and are generous to share your world with us.
Maggie rocks too!
Sorry for the insipidity, but you have become one of my 3 go to sites every day. Even if I wasn’t interested in trucking, would be here for the writing and laughs at others’ expense.
What Belledog said.
I just dropped in after reading AYSR and I’m staying. I only read this post and the Big Brain one. I had to comment before heading back to spend a whole chunk of time catching up with your stuff……..
wow.
my verification word is $60,000stayed.
Retirement, here I come……..
I love you guys, already.
Just don’t forget us when you get all big and famous. Life wouldn’t be the same without the Hags!
MongolianGirl,
LOL About half way through your comment it started:
BB: HEY! Why don’t I have a cool nickname like Gengis!? I want to be called something kick-ass like Gengis not lame-ass like Big Brain.
Me: Ugh! She’s got this whole kick-ass theme going on… you know they raise quarter-horses, the mongols were expert horsemen, she calls herself mongolian girl, therefore her BB gets to be Gengis… it all makes perfect sense.
BB: I don’t care I want a cool name, too.
Me: Well… we kinda have a theme, too. The Hags… hmmmm… well in ancient Greek mythology the Hags were related to the Gorgons. How about calling you “Gorgon” or “Medusa” instead of Big Brain?
BB: You really suck at nicknames, did you know that?
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Glad you’re here, and loved your site btw.
Belledog and Decorina,
Awwww thanks, guys.
Jillie,
Hey welcome! Glad you found us.
congrats again. i submitted for review too, but am quiet sure mine will have nary a nice word. hell, they’ve said about a billion times that they f-cking hate mommy blogs. i kind of submitted just so they’ll have to read a mommy blog. because i’m fun like that. LOL.
April,
LOL That IS fun!