by Brent on October 25, 2007
in Satire
Welcome back to the unending torment that is Blogging Week. Today’s meme is a barrage of banality I like to call Thursday Thirty-Seven, which weighs in with nearly three times the tedious trivia of its mundane cousin, Thursday Thirteen…

by Brent on October 24, 2007
in Satire
The next in our series of poor excuses for blogging is What’s Up With Me Wednesday. The key to this spicy new meme is to find a fairly boring story, and pack it chock full of nicknames and acronyms without any sort of key or context in which to decipher them, or any reason why it would interest anyone outside your immediate family…

by Brent on October 23, 2007
in Satire
Today we continue the Blogging Week festivities with a meme I have dubbed Tactless Tuesday.
On this most glorious of days, I dispense with the small portion of charm and grace that usually infuses my writing, and strike the nail squarely on the non-pointy side of unsuspecting topics, caught by surprise at being so directly addressed…

by Brent on October 22, 2007
in Satire
Welcome to Blogging Week, my first ever attempt at “typical,” and by that I mean meme-infested, blogging.
For those of you who may be mercifully ignorant of what passes for content on this site, my usual response to memes is similar to my response to venomous insects occasionally found crawling across my floor: bludgeon them with whatever is handy, wipe up the residue with the closest paper product and burn the whole mess as a lesson to any others who may be planning a similar attack….

Nofollow Again
by Brent on January 25, 2009
in Satire, Uncategorized
Fifteen months ago, in an attempt to reward those individuals displaying the taste and distinction to comment upon this site, I converted the Ominous Comma to a Dofollow blog.
Simply put, this means that every comment upon this site would add a small but cumulative addition to the originating site’s google ranking, allowing them to leverage their site’s visibility in the search results one comment a time.
Sadly, all this had done is inspire a host of nearly-random comments…
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