A Short Story Short of a Novel

Welcome To My Ramblings!

Myself, to the editor-in-chief of the Times West Virginian:

Mrs. Poe,

I don’t know why you and your paper choose to have such loud and annoying ads on your website. There is nothing more annoying and angering to me than being startled from my seat every time I click on the homepage or an obituary. I shouldn’t have to peel myself from the ceiling when I look at the obituary of a friend I lost. It is very rude of you and your design staff to place those ads with their volume at full blast on the pages dedicated to the deceased. If you’re that hard up for money, try something else. I don’t think that someone looking for the obituary of a friend or loved one wants a new car loan from Fairmont Federal Credit Union or the latest 10 for $10 from Shop ‘n Save. 
Maybe you should take a chapter from the Exponent Telegram or the Dominion Post. There is nothing profitable in posting ads on obituary pages. 

I’m not expecting anything back from you. I’ve sent you messages in the past and I’ve gotten nothing back, not even a screw off or an automatic e-mail with empty gratitude. To expect something different this time would be quite foolish of me.  

Thanks for your time. This message will surely be best suited for the waste basket of your iMac, which is where it’ll probably end up once you finish reading this line.
Leroy Brumage

The editor-in-chief, Misty Poe, in response:

Mr. Brumage,
Thank you for your input. Reader response is always very appreciated.
In the future, there is a mute button on the advertisement.
Sincerely.
Misty Poe
Managing Editor
Times West Virginian
(304)-367-2523
PO Box 2530
Fairmont, WV 26555
You may be a Poe, but you sure as hell no Edgar. Keep it classy, Misty.
stfuconservatives: motherjones: perzadook: Vulcan POTUS Obama 2012! Obama’s a vulcan??? Maybe the birth certificate really is fake. We know he wasn’t born in this country, but what about this GALAXY???

stfuconservatives:

motherjones:

perzadook:

Vulcan POTUS

Obama 2012!

Obama’s a vulcan??? Maybe the birth certificate really is fake.

We know he wasn’t born in this country, but what about this GALAXY???

stfuconservatives: seriouslyamerica: ladyatheist: logicd: Yup Neither person would fucking “scare me” if they were walking through my neighborhood at night. Oh, and we’re just straight up lying now and saying that he had “gang related tattoos”? Where did you get that piece of bullshit information? You’re working real hard on finding a reason why Trayvon deserved to die. Why don’t you take a break from spreading all those lies and hatred and have a seat? But wait, how would you know there were any tattoos at all… hasn’t it been established that Trayvon Martin was wearing a hoodie? A hoodie WHICH WOULD HAVE COVERED ANY TATTOOS. STOP TRYING TO JUSTIFY THE MURDER OF A CHILD. Uh also if I was scared of a suspicious person in my neighborhood, I would call 911, and when they told me not to pursue said ~*scary person*~ I would go the fuck home. I live in LA. I see Black people in hoodies all the time, and sometimes they even have tattoos — obviously gang symbols!!!11 — and I have managed to not shoot a single one of them. Also, you racist jackhole? The kid on the right still looks like a kid. And that kid still deserved to not get fucking murdered by a self-appointed vigilante. Stop reinforcing the idea that Blackness is inherently suspicious. Because it isn’t. Nothing Trayvon said, did or smoked before that night is relevant to the fact that an adult shot and killed him in cold blood. -Jess

stfuconservatives:

seriouslyamerica:

ladyatheist:

logicd:

Yup

Neither person would fucking “scare me” if they were walking through my neighborhood at night. Oh, and we’re just straight up lying now and saying that he had “gang related tattoos”? Where did you get that piece of bullshit information? You’re working real hard on finding a reason why Trayvon deserved to die. Why don’t you take a break from spreading all those lies and hatred and have a seat?

But wait, how would you know there were any tattoos at all… hasn’t it been established that Trayvon Martin was wearing a hoodie? A hoodie WHICH WOULD HAVE COVERED ANY TATTOOS.

STOP TRYING TO JUSTIFY THE MURDER OF A CHILD.

Uh also if I was scared of a suspicious person in my neighborhood, I would call 911, and when they told me not to pursue said ~*scary person*~ I would go the fuck home.

I live in LA. I see Black people in hoodies all the time, and sometimes they even have tattoos — obviously gang symbols!!!11 — and I have managed to not shoot a single one of them.

Also, you racist jackhole? The kid on the right still looks like a kid. And that kid still deserved to not get fucking murdered by a self-appointed vigilante. Stop reinforcing the idea that Blackness is inherently suspicious. Because it isn’t. Nothing Trayvon said, did or smoked before that night is relevant to the fact that an adult shot and killed him in cold blood.

-Jess

apriki: SHIT SON be cool man be cool they don’t have your photo man they don’t know you maybe that kid could be Peeta I mean it’s a common ass name I ain’t got nothing to worry about I’m inconspicuous as fuck deep breaths deep breathing fuck fuck fuck maybe it’ll be a bake off

apriki:

SHIT SON be cool man be cool they don’t have your photo man they don’t know you maybe that kid could be Peeta I mean it’s a common ass name I ain’t got nothing to worry about I’m inconspicuous as fuck deep breaths deep breathing fuck fuck fuck

maybe it’ll be a bake off

(via goingtoalaska)

stfuconservatives: diegueno: Rick Santorum is a pious hypocrite. Yeah, in case you’ve forgotten, his wife had a life-saving abortion. And I doubt they required her to have a transvaginal ultrasound or get a signed note from her husband or listen to the heartbeat or wait 72 hours or any of that bullshit. -Jess I hate to defend Santorum, but his wife didn’t have an abortion. She miscarried. BUT, she did date an abortionist a long while ago, though.

stfuconservatives:

diegueno:

Rick Santorum is a pious hypocrite.

Yeah, in case you’ve forgotten, his wife had a life-saving abortion. And I doubt they required her to have a transvaginal ultrasound or get a signed note from her husband or listen to the heartbeat or wait 72 hours or any of that bullshit. -Jess

I hate to defend Santorum, but his wife didn’t have an abortion. She miscarried. BUT, she did date an abortionist a long while ago, though.

goingtoalaska:

Did anybody else buy “We All Raise Our Voices to the Air” on vinyl and if so did yours come with a digital download?

I did and mine did not so now I can only listen to it in my living room.

/hipster problems

Mine didn’t either. I had to buy the CD. But, it was worth it.