NEWS UPDATE: Dark News from the Cutting Room
This month, we decided we would try a Theme. Believe it or not, after ten years of aimlessly writing for this site, we lose motivation or lack inspiration. So, we have decided to occasionally throw a theme into the mix. We have been doing that annually for Halloween, but we wanted to try OTHER, non-spooky themes. And so here we are presenting you with the OMGJ Suicide Watch Month.
That is correct. We have decided to acknowledge the fact that, for a so-called humor site, we sure are a bunch of sad people. Indeed, for the past few years we have stopped thinking of it as a place of humor completely. We entertain to an extent. We certainly educate a lot. But if laughs come to you, the reader, it is probably a coincidence. That’s fine. This August, however, we are embracing our inner goths. No. F that. Goths don’t understand our suffering. This August, then, we are venting our thirty-something year old spleens in such a way that only people in this age bracket can: no anger, no hostility to an unjust world. Just a lot of weak, pathetic observations and more than a few buckets of tears. After all, what’s the use in getting angry over things you can’t change?
Amanda and Billy Holiday will probably be carrying the month, with multiple new articles every week. The Jeremies are either too busy or too currently-content with life to be sad over much. We will re-post some items that were already posted months or years ago in case you missed them the first time around or forgot about them. You will see that we have had sad moments for a long, long time now. No more hiding behind a hollow laugh, though. No more using comedy words to mask our emotions.
Put on your Crying Aprons, readers. Or don’t. Maybe you don’t mind tear stains on your shirt fronts. If so, then join the club.
There we are, at all times.
