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Internet Troll Successful in Bullying Writer into Submission

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This post was originally published on July 27, 2015 on Mockmom.com.

Today, in Utopia, Somewhere, an Internet troll successfully tracked down a writer to bully and threaten her after he disagreed with her take on potty-training her child.

When interviewed from his mother’s basement, the troll, 32 year-old Chester the Child Molester, refused to put on clothes, wearing only his tighty-whities. He also refused to wash his cheese-flavored chip stained hands, saying ‘it is my American right to keep my fingers cheese colored.’

He tracked down the writer Suzy Q Mommy Blogger after reading her blog post about her struggle to potty train her child before preschool started. He started out by commenting on her blog posts and grew increasingly agitated when she began to delete his comments.

“She shouldn’t get to delete my comments. She acts like she’s entitled to her own opinion since it’s her own website. Just because I don’t have kids doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m talking about. She needs to listen to me. I’m right. And if it takes me being an asshole for her to listen, then so be it.”

Once she began to delete his comments, she also banned his from her website. That just sent him to track her work down on other sites.

“My mom didn’t potty train me on time, and I’m totally normal. I live in her basement and read the Internet all day long. I’m a testament to being a free thinker.”

When asked for comment, Suzy Q Mommy Blogger tearfully replied, “He’s right. I shouldn’t be entitled to my own opinion. Even though I have kids and these trolls don’t. Clearly, they know more about parenting than I do, and I will seek their advice on parenting before making an opinion from now on for myself.”

*Clearly, this is in jest, and a nod to all of those trolls out there who think they know better than you do, specifically, the people out there that continuously tell me I am a terrible parent and start their emails out with ‘I do not have children, but…..’ Please know that I take your opinion very seriously.

 

 

Let Me Bring You Up to Speed

Screenshot of SHENANIGANS and RIDICULOUSNESS.
Screenshot of SHENANIGANS and RIDICULOUSNESS.

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but I haven’t been around on the blog that much this summer.  Well, we’ve been traveling A LOT, and of course, the boys were out of school, which should actually explain everything.  BUT, I’ve been lucky enough to have my work featured on a few other sites in the last two months.  Here’s a rundown:

On The Mid:

Why the New York Magazine Cover Matters

6 Things the Beach Taught Me About Life

10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Marriage

The Hell That is Shopping For Uniforms For Children With Sensory Issues

And on MockMom:

Internet Troll Successful in Bullying Writer Into Submission

AND, dun dun dun, remember when Harmony and I did the session with MomCaveTV?  No?  Well, refresh your memory here: Hobbs & Hayworth Episode 1

Well, BIG NEWS!  We have our own show now on MomCaveTV and here is the first segment:

Introducing Hobbs & Hayworth on MomCaveTV!

We hope that you subscribe and enjoy watching us do silly things while ingesting libations.  It’s fun, and they get more ridiculous the more we drink.  Join us, won’t you?

Boone’s Farm Tastes Like Regret and Bad Choices

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So, I have this new friend that I mentioned last week, Harmony Hobbs of ModernMommyMadness.com.  We’re in this writer group together that has women writers from all over the world and it turns out she lives 5 minutes down the road.  Literally.  As in 3.2 miles.

Anyhow, she came over last night and we participated in a Google+ hangout with MomCaveTv.  I have totally popped my writer cherry this month by getting published, having an author signing, and now, hanging out during a live internet chat.

Because Harmony is apparently as ridiculous as I am, we decided it would be funny to wear onesie pajamas and drink Boone’s Farm.  Believe it or not, I had a hard time tracking down Boone’s Farm.  We broke the bank and bought one of every flavor at $2.79 a bottle.  Holy shit that’s cheap.  Was it that cheap in high school?

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Mom Cave TV is the brain-child of Jennifer Weedon Palazzo, Stephanie Faith Scott,  Valise Tate (whom I am disappointed was not on there with us!), and J. Sibley Law.  It has won a ton of international awards and is brilliant, and I am kind of surprised they let us into their world.

Harmony and I are still excited about it, the day after, because we like to make fools of ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously.  We broke down what southern mommas say to our Yankee friends over the course of 20 minutes.  I’m pretty sure that they are still confused as to what the hell happens down here in the South.

Harmony gussied up this photo above for us.  It pretty much sums it up…Check out the video here: