Generating shit-tons of copy on a daily basis is hard. Generating shit-tons of copy that people actually want to read on a daily basis is damn near impossible. Been there, done that. (Once spent a 2-year stretch writing four 24- to 36-page magazines every month. Churning out that much copy was exhausting.)
So Roy, take a well-earned holiday break! Rest well knowing that your efforts are helping to save the sanity of your readers!
this blog is well worth the pittance you charge. a big laugh is priceless, and you've given us plenty of those. it wouldn't chap my ass if you took occasional days off, either. I do that and nobody seems to complain much, although that may be out of a sense of relief. enjoy the day.
Full disclosure: I am not Canadian. It is a source of bitter disappointment. I still think having your harvest festival a full month after the last harvest is weird.
I'm thankful I have a place I can go 5 mornings a week to start the day joining with a master craftman in a hail and hearty "Fuck you!" to various and sundry assholes who need it.
Blessings to you & yourn, & all of yinz in Substack-land. May you all have the perfect quip to make your racist uncle choke, not to death per se, but enough to administer a Heimlich maneuver. Triple points if the choking in question is not upon a bone or something manly like that, but something soy-based. Call it poetic justice.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I slept late, and I'm long past opening my email on a holiday and NOT expecting to see a REBID -- neither rain nor sleet nor snow stops Roy from posting, bless him.
Everyone relax, eat too much, and take a nap afterwards.
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Thanksgiving, all you wonderful bastards! Have a great one.
Generating shit-tons of copy on a daily basis is hard. Generating shit-tons of copy that people actually want to read on a daily basis is damn near impossible. Been there, done that. (Once spent a 2-year stretch writing four 24- to 36-page magazines every month. Churning out that much copy was exhausting.)
So Roy, take a well-earned holiday break! Rest well knowing that your efforts are helping to save the sanity of your readers!
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and Kia, too!
Back at you, Maestro, and Happy Gobble-gobble Day to all.
☮️ and 💕 .
“the people who love you will still love you, and the people who don’t can go fuck themselves” — words to live by
I want this cross-stitched, framed, and hung in my classroom, right next to my needle-point “Don’t be an asshole.” Or else tattooed onto my forehead.
Back of the hand is better, that way you can read it whenever you need to.
… if there‘s room on my forehead not taken up by NO IMPULSE CONTROL
*Mwah, mwah!* [kisses each cheek in turn] You are such a mensch, Roy!
Ooo...a gifted day off the comments sheet!
OK good. I'll relax with the Qatarites in my well-stocked luxury box as the lads kick each other into submission down there on the lawn...
Cheers!
have they chosen that sacrificial homersekshul yet?
I don't subscribe to the extended highlights version...
this blog is well worth the pittance you charge. a big laugh is priceless, and you've given us plenty of those. it wouldn't chap my ass if you took occasional days off, either. I do that and nobody seems to complain much, although that may be out of a sense of relief. enjoy the day.
Enjoy the holiday, Roy. Happy Thanksgiving! (Wait, I thought Thanksgiving was in October...) ;-)
*levels finger at you and starts singing Bobcaygeon loudly*
It is, in sensible places.
In the 1860's, sometimes landed in July, I think.
Ouch. Almost 25 years from home for me, 7 since the last visit (a very melancholy one).
Full disclosure: I am not Canadian. It is a source of bitter disappointment. I still think having your harvest festival a full month after the last harvest is weird.
I thought that too, ay! Not sure these Yanks know what Thanksgiving's about out there in their houses, ay.
I'm thankful I have a place I can go 5 mornings a week to start the day joining with a master craftman in a hail and hearty "Fuck you!" to various and sundry assholes who need it.
Very therapeutic.
Ah, it's not wasted then. Good!
That was a digestible post. And, per usual, it made me smile. Happy Thanksgiving Day! And, to quote Neil, "Pocahontas."
Blessings to you & yourn, & all of yinz in Substack-land. May you all have the perfect quip to make your racist uncle choke, not to death per se, but enough to administer a Heimlich maneuver. Triple points if the choking in question is not upon a bone or something manly like that, but something soy-based. Call it poetic justice.
...and if you really have to throttle him with the Heimlich, well, it's for his own good.
There's always the "Unheimlich maneuver" if you need to get creeped out...
Ooo, dass ist ungewöhnlich!
Now there's a Law & Order plot twist!
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I slept late, and I'm long past opening my email on a holiday and NOT expecting to see a REBID -- neither rain nor sleet nor snow stops Roy from posting, bless him.
Everyone relax, eat too much, and take a nap afterwards.
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Thanksgiving, all you wonderful bastards! Have a great one.
Happy Thanksgiving, Roy, and the rest of you good folks. I wish you all a minimum of germs, and a maximum of happiness, whatever that looks like.
Thank <i>you</i>! For putting it out, and for the message too.
We love you, Roy, not least because you always use your whole ass.
To be fair, Roy's writings rely on a bevy of right-wingers willing to supply some ass too. What I mean is we need never worry of running out.