So that's how it is, eh?

You might remember a gent I have mentioned a few times. A certain... Answerman. You might also remember my excitement at submitting a rant to his weekly column on www.animenewsnetwork.com. Some fine discourse there I thought, well why not give it a try? So I did, and immediately after Answerman read my email and trashed it (admittedly), he added a fifth rule to the submission rules which until that point had only numbered four...

5. If you send me something that's already been published on your blog or on another site, I'm just going to delete it. Likewise, requests that I link to your blog or another site if I print your rant will also result in your email being sent straight to the trash.

While it is true that my rant on the vile downloading ass-weasels of our beloved anime shows was actually posted here first, the above rule did not exist before I had submitted my rant. THEREFORE, my glorious rant should have been exempt, but of course we do not live in a perfect world. That's not to mention that I can take credit(technically) for the above rule, which will be posted in every Answerman column from now until whenever. Yet somehow I feel, unfulfilled? Am I missing my spiritual connection to the universe? Or could it be that someone had decided to preclude my work on the basis of a previously non-existent rule that was created specifically to disqualify it from consideration? Naw, couldn't be. Those of you who are my loyal readers, from Singapore and elsewhere, know that I would never ever take exception to something like that. We all know that Answerman had a perfectly rational reason for it, and that it only seems he's being totally unreasonable. I can't believe that I am even posting about it. What a gag. I am clearly overreacting. Have a nice day.