Currently, World of Meh! is handled by both myself and Chris. With Chris working full-time, 6 days a week, and me only being able to think up of so much to write about, we are looking for a few bright, snarky, and geeky individuals to join us.
I should probably state that it’s a voluntary position meaning there is no financial compensation involved. World of Meh! is a labor of love, and to date, we haven’t made a cent off of it, although we wouldn’t complain if we started to earn some form of revenue from it. Before I go off on a tangent, let me lay out the details:
There is no daily/weekly posting quota. Post whenever you can, although more is always better because it helps boost traffic.
We ask that you do your best regarding English and grammar. We reserve the right to edit any posts if you’ve accidentally missed anything.
Please keep in theme with the site. If you go through past posts, you will see that we don’t mind swearing, nudity (as long as you flag it), off the wall topics… but we won’t allow racism, Sarah Palin, posts/mentions about animal or child abuse, sex crimes, or anything else that will make men in suits want to bash down our door.
You will be given your own special worldofmeh.com email address
We will add you to our upcoming ‘Contact Us’ page with links to your Twitter, Xbox Live Account, and other shit like that.
Since we currently don’t own a PlayStation 3 console, we would love to have a writer for that. We would love to have a few more writers with Xbox Live accounts so we can host a Community Playdate. Also, with E3 beating down our door, we will need the extra hands to help cover that. We can’t do it all on our own. It’s just too much. With that being said, we’re going to need help for the upcoming Blogathon. Our current plan is to divide the day into shifts, because when Chris and I did it by ourselves last year, we wanted to die. No joke.
So, if interested, please email me (lindsey@worldofmeh.com) a writing sample or link to your blog/site if you are currently writing somewhere else, an estimate on how many posts you think you could contribute in a week, a brief summary about yourself describing interests and any relevant experience you may have, and your AIM screen name, if you have one.
Chris and I will review all submissions as soon as they come in, and we want to have this all sorted out by next Monday. Although I should probably say that if any submissions are turned in after Monday, we will still seriously consider them, because we know that if the tables were turned, we would want somebody to do that for us.
Good luck, and thank you all in advance for wanting to be a part of this!
One thing we’ve noticed about Moogle is how curious she is. She wonders what is inside a cabinet, wonders what is so awesome about the fridge, and other things. She has also taken a great interest in our laptop and PC. She watches how the mouse cursor flits about the screen, and will stare at our fingers as they click on the keyboard.
When Chris is at work, him and I talk throughout the day on AIM. Sometimes I step away from the keyboard because I am getting food, going to the restroom, getting the mail, or taking Donnie outside to do his business. Before Moogle, Chris would sit there with silence on my end. Now that we have Moogs, something new has been happening.
Before I go and do whatever I need to do, I tell Chris that I will “be right back” or “brb.” Chris will then see on AIM that it says I am typing, however I will not be anywhere near the keyboard. Some seconds later, a message will be sent to him that typically looks like this: a111111111111111111111111111111stjp.
Little Moogs takes it upon herself to walk across the keyboard and send her Daddy a message. She almost always hits the ENTER key as well, sending the message to Chris and him getting a laugh out of it.
Yesterday her keyboard escapades went a step further. A few hours after completing the blog about our forums, I went back to check and see what our viewer stats were. I was surprised to find the screen back on the blog edit page, and the title of the blog changed to “pppppppppppppppppppppp.” Our cat is so talented that she managed to get into the edit post mode, change the title of the blog, and she even SAVED it. Of course I changed it back, so I apologize to any visitors of our blog who saw the “Moogs Edition” of my forum post.
So from here on out, if you see anything silly going on our blog with words or sentences, you can pretty much guess who did it:
Some of you might remember my post from 6 days ago about the kid freaking out that his Mom cancelled his World of Warcraft account. Apparently it wasn’t, but that just means we are given the opportunity to laugh some more at this sad kid and his addiction to WoW.
This morning I get up, get on AIM, and Chris sends me a link to this wonderful gem on Youtube….
I will say that my favorite line was where he yells at some guy on how he was going to find him, kill him, and then eat his first born child. Dude needs some serious help, but I hope this isn’t the last we see of his freak outs. They are just too golden!
btw, here is a link to wafflepwn’s (the brother who records all of the antics) Youtube channel. If you have an account, I highly suggest you subscribe like I just did because I have a feeling there will be more legendary moments to come.
Everyone grows up; this is how the world works. Just because we grow decrepit and old, however, does not mean we have to forsake the things that make us happy, childish though they may seem. This is the core concept of Marooners’ Rock; we geek out on the things of our past, present, and future. Society and cultural norms be damned!
