An Unfortunate Announcement
Hello, this is Jeff typing, and I have an unfortunate announcement to make. A few days ago Metten and I acknowledged the 350 lb mama’s boy in the room, and finally had a conversation about the future of this website.
And we’ve decided to take it down.
This is something that makes me sad, because it’s been a lot of fun. We’ve been at it for roughly a year, and, at the risk of sounding self-congratulatory, there’s some really funny shit posted here.
But, for whatever reason (needless to say, I blame myself), Mockable never attracted a large audience. At one point there were roughly 500 visitors per day, which ain’t too shabby, but it’s decreased over the past few months. Not a good sign.
When I came up with the idea for the site, I envisioned it as a depository for comic bitching about the little everyday things that irritate us. I thought we’d get to the point where Mockable pretty much ran on autopilot, as readers provided the content.
Indeed, we received a lot of great submissions, and I thank everyone who participated. You guys are awesome! But the large, vibrant community I imagined never gathered. Again, I take the blame.
I want to thank everyone who visited the site on a regular basis (both of you), everybody who submitted a guest Mock, and especially Metten.
Over the years I’ve attempted to collaborate on various projects with people, and it hasn’t gone well. There’s usually a disparity in passion, if you know what I mean. One of us is more committed than the other, and it leads to hard feelings and the wheels quickly flying off the project.
But Metten has been committed throughout. In fact, he’s largely responsible for keeping the site operational over the past few months. At the end I was posting fiction one day a week. WTF?
So, anyway. Thanks for everything. And you haven’t heard the last of the Metten/Kay collaborations. This one didn’t work, but the next one will. I’m convinced of it.
Metten might want to post a goodbye, as well. Or maybe he’ll let this one speak for both us. I don’t know. But we’re going to leave the site as it is for a week or so, then remove everything but our farewells. We agree that Mockable shouldn’t just sit here dormant and sad and flaccid.
So, if you’re interested, revisit the archives while you can. And we’ll see you guys elsewhere, real soon.
Thank you!
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I’ll just blame myself for not being able to be creative enough, i.e. too lazy, to submit something.
It was fun while it lasted, perhaps a fitting end would be a mock mocking mockable.
I sure as hell hope this post is a mock ! Some great stuff has appeared here and I will miss it .
I, too, hope this is a pre-April Fool’s day joke. While I may not have submitted a guest contribution or commented on every submission, I read and thoroughly enjoyed every mock that was put out there.
If it’s true and there are to be no more mockings, well, as Jeff is fond of saying, “That sucks it from the ass in, maaaaan”.
You can blame me, too. I consider myself a “writer” and completely overrun with needless sarcasm, but I could never think of anything funny enough to even consider sending in. Sorry.
That’s a damn shame. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying these mocks since their inception. I guess I should have commented more often? Or less often?
Nah, it’s all Jeff’s fault.
might be partly my fault too… I don’t come to the site, I just read the mock in my inbox every day. this sucks.
Now where am I gonna find a site desperate enuff to post the lousy crap I make up? Seriously, I am sad to see it go. Sorry it hasn’t worked out for you the way you wanted.
Well, fuck.
I’m posting in the comments section rather than on the main page because Jeff said it better than I would have (and the picture’s good too). First of all, I am grateful that anyone would be willing to read something that I wrote, let alone read it routinely for months. Thanks for being a part of it everybody. I’m still trying to get the stupid book published. I’m still making cartoons in my basement. I’m still writing new stuff whenever I can because I couldn’t stop if I wanted to. If something catches, I hope you’ll be kind enough to be a part of it.
I generally agree with everything that Jeff said, except the part where he takes responsibility. Far too often I get accused of kissing the guy’s ass or either literally or figuratively sucking his…well you get it. Those people infuriate me and if you’re one of them email me with your address so I can come over there and get my ass kicked. Regardless the following is the truth:
Jeff is the reason the you’re here in the first place and likely the only reason you know I exist. The guy is as funny and talented as they come and mockable was an opportunity to see him write with a different voice and in a different genre. I think that’s probably my greatest source of sadness right now. It’s going to eat it from the ass in to see that go away.
In February of this year I wrote the following on my facebook page: I noticed that I have 100 friends somehow & almost none are from thewvsr. Considering this, I decided now’s an excellent opportunity to pimp the best friend I’ve ever had that I’ve never met. http://thewvsr.com/index.php/best-of-thewvsr/ We’ve been working together forever & (either me writing for his site or on a site that everybody hates) I forgot how brilliant the guy is. Please do what you can to make him famous. I hope when his book comes out that you guys jump on it like a hobo on a sandwich.
Although it’s becoming the trend, I also blame myself for the failure of mockable. I overloaded my schedule in an effort to increase my personal chances for success. The end result was diminished quality across the board and way, way, way too much bitching . So anyway, I’m sorry for all that shit and I will do my best to apply lessons learned to future projects. Finally, my cat just jumped onto the arm of my chair and made me pet her. I feel like Dr. Claw. Well, not anymore because she jumped onto the desk and tried to put her butthole in my face. Why do cats do this? Oh yeah…thanks so much and I’m sure I’ll see you around real soon.
metten
metten,
I think you are very funny in your own write. (see what I did there?)
I don’t really know why the site didn’t get more traffic. I don’t think the content was the reason though…out of the billions of pages on the intertubes some have to suffer. Unfortunately this was one of them.
Good luck with your book and I’m sure we will hear from you again and again.
Chuck
Noooooo! I’m sorry to see this site go. I have had many LOL moments reading, and am looking forward to the next endeavor.
Does it cost ya’ll money for this site? It would be a shame to loose all of this good work, for no other reason than needing web space. If that’s the case, I’ve got some web space available to archive it at – should you be interested in keeping it on the interweb.
RIP Mockble — I’ll miss ya!
P.S. Evidently my spelling is mockable…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZOSYrsgMJI&feature=related
No! First suggestaholic gets forgotten about and now mockable is going? What website am I gonna visit second when I log onto a computer. Currently it goes wvsr, mockable, gmail. Wvsr, gmail? Heaven forbid. Please don’t take it down. I’ll submit guest mocks and visit from twenty different computers a day to get the traffic up. Please don’t leave me!
I am one of the ones who deserves the blame, I guess. I come here every morning, as soon as I get home from work (yeah, i get off at 7:30 and get home around 8;30 or 9 PST), but I never comment (but I rarely comment over on the WVSR either). I have faithfully been one of the five hundred, but maybe if we all had commented once in a while we’d still have the Kay/Metten comedy collaberation to lighten our day. Now where are we going to go while we wait for the WVSR to update. I might as well not even turn on my computer till late in the evening. It’s this site, the e-mail, maybe some online news every day. Even the days when I’m bummed that there’s no new update, I still checked. It is a sad day in the interwebs, my friends, a sad day indeed. And we have no one but me and those of us as lazy as me to blame. Perhaps, at least, Metten will still guest post on the WVSR once in a while. RIP Mockable. At least to me, you will be sorely missed.
I guess I should say something. I contributed six scribblings here. Thanks Jeff and Metten for the air time but more important…an outlet. As a ‘writer’ it’s fun to take a break and do 500-800 words and try out a thought and play with words. Kind of a drag with 500 visitors, Zazu, Chuck, Tawian….it’s not the acadmey awards so if I left anyone out…joined in and others didn’t. We took a shot. Creativity has nothing to do with success. Who would have thought ‘Larry the Cable Guy’ could sell out an arena while Leo Kottke plays small venues. (I like Larry the Cable Guy so don’t anybody rag on me). I haven’t done much with words lately. I’ve got writing on hold while life bites me in the ass…in a good way. I know it’s a tough go to keep your site and writings fresh and to the level you expect of yourselves, Jeff and Metten. Yeah…I know! Wish there was a way to put this thing on ‘coast’ instead of sending it to the interweb bone yard. I’m sure you both thought of that.
So…Jeff…Metten…e-me if you get stuck and need a good dick joke. I do pretty good with farts and midgets too.
Two midgets walk into a joke. One midget says…”Did you just fart?” Other one says…”Yeah it’s a little one.” Other one says…”I wasn’t talking about your dick.”
…dave
Hey…before you go…since you rerun some things on occasion…how about putting up that Southern California thing Jeff wrote a while back. May as well go out in a blazing shitstorm. Man did folks rip it up on here. Whore it out to Meta-Filter again…someone did that for you I remember. Fuck it…it’s like the last couple weeks of school and walking out the doors is the last thing you do on diploma night. (I was naked under my gown and so was Marsha Vaske).
Just a thought. Well actually two thoughts now. Damn I loved Marsha!!
Sorry to see this go. I’ll miss seeing Mockable in my reader. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
“We can’t all go hungry! Take the MOCKABLE out in the woods and tie him and shoot him.”
Last!
April Fools! Mockable isn’t dying… Huh, what’s that? It actually is? Oh, sorry.
Ha ha mockable is going out of business. Are you going to have a sale? Bunch of sad-sack miscreants. Too bad. How does it feel now? Huh? How you like me now, beeaotch? Is that even how you spell beeotch? I think I am missing a letter or two… Anyway, suck it, mockable. Nice revenue-stream building website plan, morons. Besides, don’t you know that a dot org site isn’t supposed to make money? It’s supposed to enhance the user experience. And you know what would enhance my experience right now? More cleavage. That’s right I said it. So deal with it.
BTW, just kidding. I just found your site about 3 minutes ago and sorry to see you go. Love ya, kthxbye.
Sorry guys, I can’t respond to the new poll question. I wouldn’t blow Chaz to save the Surf Report.
Bummer, I will miss this sight…Maybe a reprive for a monthly offering?
He He! sight – site
I guess I should say something. I contributed six scribblings here. Thanks Jeff and Metten for the air time but more important…an outlet. As a ‘writer’ it’s fun to take a break and do 500-800 words and try out a thought and play with words. Kind of a drag with 500 visitors, Zazu, Chuck, Tawian….it’s not the acadmey awards so if I left anyone out…joined in and others didn’t. We took a shot. Creativity has nothing to do with success. Who would have thought ‘Larry the Cable Guy’ could sell out an arena while Leo Kottke plays small venues. (I like Larry the Cable Guy so don’t anybody rag on me). I haven’t done much with words lately. I’ve got writing on hold while life bites me in the ass…in a good way. I know it’s a tough go to keep your site and writings fresh and to the level you expect of yourselves, Jeff and Metten. Yeah…I know! Wish there was a way to put this thing on ‘coast’ instead of sending it to the interweb bone yard. I’m sure you both thought of that.
So…Jeff…Metten…e-me if you get stuck and need a good dick joke. I do pretty good with farts and midgets too.
Two midgets walk into a joke. One midget says…”Did you just fart?” Other one says…”Yeah it’s a little one.” Other one says…”I wasn’t talking about your dick.”
…dave
All Right Already , this mock has gone on long enough .Get off your butts and start writing again ! Please ?
Welcome to the “We Thought Mockable was Pretty Damn Cool” forum.
hehe…LAST!!
I wouldn’t blow any Chaz’s, but I would still like Mockable to come back. I would even labor over a submission.
Someone forgot to pull the plug.