Secrets of the City

I can’t decide if sheletta is being serious about meter maids, or what. Does she really want sympathy for parking illegally and then getting called on it?

There are women on this board funnier than her.

Sheletta is the most un-funny blog in the Twin Cities.

And am I the only person who finds it wierd that she can go out to dinner to the Palomino, but can afford 2 hours on a meter…or to renew tabs? The public needs answers!

Wow, I’m assuming Sheletta is trying to write with some sort of attempted irony but can I get the time back I just spent reading her post?

I never ever bother wasting my time in the first place

1. I’m pretty sure the PC term isn’t “meter maid”.
2. If you just got your hair did, you can probably afford to have your tabs renewed.
3. Are you able bodied? Then you shouldnt get parking tickets. Try parking further away and walking. And if you aren’t able bodied, your handicap parking gives you four hours of meter parking.
4. Sheletta, ur doin it rong!
(Insert picture of LOLhedgehog driving car and/or on a laptop)

2. If you just got your hair did, you can probably afford to have your tabs renewed.

That’s what I was thinking.

Unless that’s the point she was making with a tongue in cheek post like this. Who knows.

I think we deserve an open thread on a holiday eve.

@ang

In which case the entire post makes even less sense and she should try to cash in all the time we spent reading it to pay for her tabs because *someone* ought to get something out of that time.

I submitted on open thread, Dougie D. Where the hell is Sparber? Hanging out with his new robot pals, probably.

@dougied

I have a feeling this thread is headed into open thread territory by 1130am anyway, so you might as well go for it.

Y’all are jes’ jellus because Sheletta has an Emmy.

max is curiously absent this morning.

maybe he’s so patriotic he begins celebrating the birth of our nation on july 2nd.

oh nevermind there he is

way to make me look stupid, max.

because, you know, I need all the help I can get with that.

Is Sheletta funny in person? Maybe it’s a lost in translation thing.

Hey… just trying to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Ok… sheesh. She’s not funny.

Hey you guys! Glad to see you’re up early this morning (and some of you are still as bitter as the last time I chatted with you). Thanks for reading my blog. And thanks for the posted comments you left. I’ll leave ‘em there so I’ll have something to inspire me to be even funnier than I already am.

Remember boys and girls, a smile is just a frown turned upside down. Take the stick out your butts and you’ll walk a little lighter and laugh at little bit harder! Speaking of laughing, let me make sure I link you to my Emmy Award winning website before I head out to the Children’s Museum with my little one (I have a funny blog about that too, you can read it by clicking here).

Have a happy 4th of July everybody!

Hey, I put that stick in my butt for a reason.

btw, sounds like you got a deal on the expired registration — normally it’s $120 (prolly cuz you’re so funny!)

Well, she told us, I guess…

She showed the cop her Emmy Award.

Actually, she’s lucky she wasn’t driving and subsequently pulled over for expired tabs. That’s a $300 ticket, yo. Also, I think if you buy tabs and send in the reciept withing 72 hours of the citation, they wave the fine.

Wait, did we just get insulted?

Let me get this straight: We’re non-emmy winning, stick-up-our-butts herd members?

I’m ok with that.

Does this mean no more come hither herd juice? Cuz’ that would be quite upsetting.

I think it may even be 10 days, Alie.

If failing to find the humor in someone bitching about getting caught doing something illegal means I have a stick up my ass, then that is a satisfying stick.

I’m goign to leave my stick in. It tickles when I sit down.

Wheee!!!!

Also, I think if you buy tabs and send in the reciept withing 72 hours of the citation, they wave the fine.

Damn I wish I had known that! Funny thing is, I actually had the tags. I told my husband they arrived in the mail, but of course, he wasn’t listening (he doesn’t think I’m funny either and often just blocks out what the hell I’m telling him), so he never put them on the car. I didn’t know the old ones were still on there until I got the damn ticket. He claims I never told him the tags came in! Had I known about the 72 hour rule, I could have bypassed the ticket all together. Anybody got $20 I can borrow? I need to go and get my hair done for the holidays…

Anybody got $20 I can borrow?
I’ll loan you 20 bucks, but only if you promise to spend it taking a comedy class from Bix.

I like the idea of Cat on a Stick. I could make little ice cream versions and sell them at the State Fair.

Nah! Prolly wouldn’t sell since I was made in China.

If posted on her site that comment would easily be the funniest thing on it. And might even be enough to recapture the Emmy this year. But it’s not and I hear that a ton more blogs are entered this year, including several MNSpeaker’s blogs (not mine). I’d be willing to say that one or more of those blogs will win this year. Although, the last thing we need is Spar-b-Q, wtfmn (et al) bragging about how they used all the fame and cache garnered from the Upper Midwest regional Emmy for a blog to cut the line at Gameworks and get out of parking tickets (oh wait, that doesn’t seem to work)

Although, I’m a bit confused as to why she linked to her website when clearly this post already linked to it.

Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to take comfort in the fact that, when I drove to get my hair did a couple of weeks ago, I did so in my car with up to date tabs. Which means that, in the long run, I’ll save enough money *not* getting tickets that I can just convince the person who wins the Emmy this year to order another statue ($ 300) so that I too can be Emmy award winning.

Because we’re all winners and all y’all can talk to the white hand because the black hand don’t wanna listen.

(I’m giving my BlackBerry “the hand” right now)

but cat, midwesterners, nay, AMERICANS love buying stuff made in china! it saves them a lot of money to spend on … uh, gas, and tv and … uh, drugs.

The give Emmies for blogs? And that one won?

Evidently they do.

I thought crappy bloggers were just given six-figure book deals. They get award statues, too. I work in the wrong medium.

@kurtis

There’s on for online personality and one for online writing.

And then within those categories there’s an award for affiliated websites (like DeBlog) and independent (like your own website).

They do give Emmys for blogs. (winner)

(loser)

@kurtis

Oh you just wait and see. I have a plan to get hired by MNSpeak, then get fed up with MNSpeak and quit and then get hired by Rex and then parlay all my fame and fortune into a Parade Magazine cover story about all the people I screwed over along the way and then use that 10 minutes of fame to score a book deal. I will write about how much it sucks to be famous for being a snarky MNSpeak editor because there’s more to me than that (but not much more because I’m years away from being 30).

@Derusha

When you win the ‘09 Emmy, I hope you plan on ordering an Emmy for me as well. It doesn’t even matter what you post for the next 10 months, that post about the Air Guitar contest sealed the deal.

It sounds like a good plan, Bix. I can’t wait for Rex’s book about your rise and fall as a microcelebutante.

Sheletta, I think you’re great, and your blog always gives me a laugh.

You’re not related to Sheletta in any way, are you?

Too be fair, I do think several comments are a bit harsh and I would argue she’s not the most unfunny blog (that’s actually trying to be humorous) I’ve seen on MNSpeak (links or in a profile).

And I felt kinda bad about what I said but then I went back and read my first comments. It *is* ridiculous to be complaining about the price of tabs in the same sentence you’re talking about getting your hair did.

Then I thought my longest comment was a bit bitchy. Which it was. If I’d received the same comments in this thread about my blog, I’d be plenty pissed and, although I’d probably say it a bit differently, I’d probably say somewhat the same thing. I say somewhat because, even if I won the Upper Midwest Regional Emmy for my blog, I still wouldn’t refer to it as my Emmy-award winning blog in my rebuttal. Seriously, *any* winner who prefaces their blog with “Emmy award winning” best be prepared to be mocked because, let’s be realistic, its kinda silly that the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences is giving out Emmy’s to *any* blogs with mostly readable content. In fact, I think our region is one of the few that actually does this (I’ve looked at other regional sites when I was considering entering).

So, um, I’m sorry for the unnecessarily bitchy things I said. For reals.