“We’re Going to College!” Or How We Recently Made Some Changes

Lorraine: We made some changes.

I guess we should lead off with a thousand thank yous to all of you for your patience as we made these changes. They’ll be a thousand implied thank yous, though. That’s a lot of typing.

Sweeney: And we’d get distracted from all the thank yous while we complained about all of that typing.

Nugs: I get distracted by a lot of things, like peanut butter cups and Gosling pics, but mostly by your following and awesome comments.

So, a thousand thank yous from all of us.

Lor: Next, we should probably explain a little. When us Snarky ladies banded together last year, it was for the sole purpose of making fun of books from our childhood. I suppose it only takes a certain amount of making fun of dumb kids before you realize that things to snark are everywhere! They should not be limited to things past when things present can be just as dumb.

So, we started posting Fifty Shades of Grey recaps on a sister blog, but we quickly found that the split set-up wasn’t the smartest way to deal with expanding our blog. So, we consolidated. Snarksquad.com is now home to ALL of our posts. You’ll find everything categorized accordingly. Childhood Trauma = things from our childhood to snark on and Ruined for Life = contemporary things to snark on. You’ll find announcements, as well as anything we want to flail about in Sentiments.

Sweeney: Because obviously we do this because we just love all things pop culture and sometimes the urge to flail outweighs the urge to snark. Very rarely, though. We promise.

Nugs: Does this mean I get to make more spreadsheets?????

Moving on.

Lor: Most things are now in place, though we do ask you to bear with us as we update links and little formatting issues. Trust that it bothers us probably more than it bothers you.

Sweeney: The fact that the rest of the world isn’t willing to let me put life on hold to finish prettifying this site frustrates me more than I can say. Doesn’t my landlord know that I have super urgent blog business that takes precedent over silly things like “moving out?”

While we tried to move everything over, Feedburner is telling us that our subscriber count is less than half of what it was before, so please update your readers to make sure we can keep snarking with you. As much as we love talking to each other about this crap (our email chains extend so far beyond this blog its ridiculous) it is way more fun if you are around to snark with us. SVH level crying might happen if we lose you.

Lor: We’re hoping that in general the changes are welcomed, like Mark Ruffalo being the Hulk because apparently he was born to play a green rage monster.

We’re hoping that this isn’t like that one time Felicty cut off her hair and the whole world cried.

Sweeney: Or when any show ever that involves high school kids has to figure out how to deal with them graduating. They should adhere to the Ann M. Martin or Saved By The Bell philosophy and keep the kids there forever. Very few shows have characters whose inability to graduate would rouse much suspicion anyway.

In that spirit: we hope you’ll see this as just a tiny change, like Buffy and the Scooby gang going to UC Sunnydale. Except that’s an awful analogy, because season four was terrible. Even Nugs, our resident Buffy fanatic agrees with me on that.

Nugs: Ugh. YES. If I could just go back and Eternal Sunshine season four from my memory, that would just be magical. Except that’s another nerd reference altogether, so I’ll just stop now before the Ladies take away my commentary privileges.

Lor: Us? Take away your commentary privileges? Never.

I mean, only if you continue to insist on randomly inserting pictures of Ryan Gosling in every. post. Only then.

The point is, dearest readers, we’re hoping that this change as a whole makes it easier to keep up with what’s going on in SnarkLand. If you come across anything that isn’t working, holler at us via email or Twitter and we’ll get on it as soon as the real world allows.

Check back in the next few days for a new “Fifty Shades” post, plus new “Nancy Drew” and “Sweet Valley High” recaps.

Some more implied thank yous,

The Snark Squad