A Rebuttal
In response to my previous post, Anthony Gaenzle writes:
Seriously you have that much time on your hands that you have to belittle aspiring artists. Yes, their work may be subpar, but ask yourself, are you published? I mean, if you were making a living off of your writing you probably wouldn’t be bothering to badmouth these writer’s. Keep in mind that they are all beginners and they deserve credit for their efforts. I have been enrolled at USF for only a few weeks now and I have already heard about the Omnibus. Maybe you need to put the effort that you use to complain about things that don’t even concern you on your petty little blog and go ahead and do some research. I wrote one email and found out about the site. I am really glad that I accidentally stumbled across your blog cause its always nice to put a sad little bastard like yourself in his place. Thanks for making me laugh. Peace out ya petty little punk. Thanks for supporting the arts.
Firstly, Anthony, let me commend you on completely missing the point. It’s apparent that you are not well-schooled in reading comprehension. The main point of my “petty little blog” entry, as noted by the words “I shall get to my main point,” was not that the submissions were horrid; it was the fact that they obviously did not solicit submissions from anyone outside The Oracle. Why else are the only entries in that insipid little magazine from Oracle staff members? I challenge you to think of a different reason why this is so.
With regards to the rest of your comment: if this is supposed to be USF’s literary magazine, those of us in the creative writing department should definitely have heard of this. I shouldn’t have to do “research” in order to find it; it should be readily available.
Are you a freshman? You certainly sound like one, with your naive optimism about aspiring writers. In the real world, things do not function like the Special Olympics. If you suck, you’re not going to get a prize just for trying. Any “real” literary magazine would scoff at the Omnibus. If slapdash rhyming poetry is the extent of your talent, that should not be rewarded!
And this DOES concern me, as I am an “aspiring writer,” as you say. So, such mediocrity makes me cringe (as does your grammar). Good on you for putting ME in my place!
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hey jackass, i just googled my name to find a site i was looking for and saw this post that i had written a couple years ago out of boredom. turns out you actually are quite wrong bout more than one thing. firstly i am working on my second degree, so no i am not a freshman, secondly, you did trash the writings, and its sad that you would be so jealous of people that get to write in a shitty little school paper. instead of trashing them you should have swallowed your pride, been a man, and submitted something for their approval, then if they didnt accept it you could use the excuse that they only accept writings from their own people even though the truth is that your writing is probably just sub par and you just lack the talent. none of those people will go anywhere or be read because they are in there, so why are you so upset little man. lastly, i am not an english major and i had no trouble at all finding the omnibus, my advisor told me about it day one, so i think you may need to just leave your little apartment and take some time away from setting up fake battles with your star trek figures for a day and maybe you will notice there is a lot going on in the world around you that you havent noticed due to your closed off life. i wrote that for fun and you seemed to take it way too seriously, i couldn’t care less about your little blog and i feel really bad for you that you took it so hard. you need to stay off your computer and go out and have a little fun man, when was the last time you were with a female, or is that question irrelevant because the answer is NEVER. You have provided me with some fun and i appreciate that. i see that your writing career really took off since you still have this gay little site, good luck with that, how much do you rake in each month on your blog? you are funny man, im looking forward to your response, try not to overreact again, remember its all in fun
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