You got questions, the Hoosier
Gazette has answers
By Josh Whicker, Editor
April
26, 2005
Melvin Flener
President THG Fan Club
Lately
we have been getting a lot of questions e-mailed in about the
site, so we decided to take a minute and answer some of those
most commonly asked:
Why hasn’t the site been updated every week lately?
Except
for an occasional article by John Andrews, I do all of the
writing for the site, so when I am extremely busy or burned
out I take a break. I am taking graduate classes at IU-Southeast
on top of my day job as a geography teacher, so when it gets
close to the end of the semester my workload picks up and my
writing suffers. I am taking my last final tonight so things
should be back to normal next week.
What happened to the THG Blog?
This
summer Chris is changing our site to a weblog format so we can
update it from any computer with Internet. Instead of weekly,
THG will be updated daily, sometimes several times a day with
our original material and also news links from various sources
around the state. We decided to shut down our blog (which we
had through blogger.com) until we make the necessary changes
to THG.
Do
you guys plan on covering some of Indiana’s summer festivals
and other events?
We would
like to visit some of the state’s attractions on weekends this
summer if we think they would make for good stories. Except
for the weekends of July 2 and July 9 (friends’ weddings) we
are available, so e-mail us and let us know if you think a
local festival or attraction is worth a look.
What are your favorite humor sites?
I can
honestly say I don’t visit very many humor sites; I mainly
read newspaper or other news sites. My favorite sites:
FlipSideSports.net
Fark.com
Drasl.is
InTheAgora.com
Do
you make any money off the site?
We make
a little money—enough to cover our expenses and hit the town
once in a while but we won’t be quitting our day jobs anytime
soon. We could probably do quite a bit better if we really
worked on selling advertising, but that would take a lot more
time and effort than we are willing to spend.
Do
you accept and post articles from other writers?
We have
gotten this question a lot the last year and a half. We are
still not accepting material from outside writers, but if we
come across something funny on the web that we like, we don’t
hesitate to link to it. If you would like to see your satire
or commentary on THG, post it on your own site and send us the
link; if we like it we will link to it from our home page.
Do
you really hate Kentucky?
I just
got this letter the other day from a reader in Kentucky:
im a
kentuckian and you can kiss my a** at least we have the
kentucky derby and fort knox but you dont have sh**.
In case
you haven’t noticed, we make fun of Indiana a great deal more
than we do Kentucky, but this doesn’t stop letters like the
one above from pouring in each week. We have nothing against
Kentucky; except for a few inbred idiots like the writer of
the letter above, most Kentuckians are pretty nice folks.
What are your plans for the future of THG?
As long
as we have time and it is still fun, we will keep the site
running.
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