I have been blogging since 2003 when blogger first opened and I heard about this new “wave” coming across the Internet. Then I heard about how you can make money blogging. I thought. What the heck? As I studied this further I heard of a guy making “six figures”
Of course I jumped right on in there and started this (and other) blogs.
Now there seems to be TONS of blogs that “teach” you how to become a “professional” blogger. The most famous would be Problogger.com. He comes up right away if you do a search for “blogging” He’s a full time blogger making over $100,000 per year.
Who can argue with success?
I went straight out to a bookstore and slapped down the $30.00 for his book. I learned a few things.. Implemented many of these suggestions on this and another site. I had a lot of fun (like I am now) but only earned about $50.00 and it’s a lot of work, so I slowed down on the blogging and pursued other, uh… Hobbies. (I’ll let you use your imagination)
Now there are 100’s of sites teaching many of the same things that are on the problogger website and book. They all kinda teach the same things. Examples:
Use a “professional” theme (or one that looks like it)
Always be focused on a “niche”
Yea, yea…Whatever… All these sites are basically writing the same thing. How to “build a better blog” and make money with it. They are called the “A” list. And I have learned a lot from them. I have posted a comment here and there on their sites… No reply.. Why would they want to talk to a guy that’s just writing complete nonsense anyways? Ya know… (worthless opinions)
Then there’s this cat named “Griz” He has a totally different view of how to make money online. He is kinda radical and tends to bag on the “A” list dudes. He has a free blogger site up and claims he can now work a few hours a week and then play golf the rest of the time.
I enjoy following his blog but he doesn’t post much… He’s out on the golf course… You dig?
Now, in my search again, I came across a bloke who explains how it’s REALLY done. On his blog he reveals 3 secrets to a popular blog. Hey now, I can dig it. I have kinda tried #3 for awhile. (It’s one of Griz’s methods) But I don’t want to work as hard as he did.. I just want to post wacky stuff in my “niche” – Opinion. And like everybody… I got an opinion on EVERYTHING.
When ya look at the TV or browse the internet you see all kinds of celebrity’s they all seem to be beautiful people. Just take a look at them. They are all about being pretty.
Why is this? How come when you watch your daily soaps you don’t see some average people out there… Ya know, like it is in real life?
I was watching Grey’s Anatomy the other night. Checking out all those beautiful doctors. It sure would be cool to go to that hospital.. Don’t ya know it?
But then again, with all that sex that’s goin’ on in the back room of the hospital I may be afraid to let them cut on me. Come on?? How focused can they be with all the drama?
If I ever make it on a TV show Id probably just be an “extra”… One of the average people 🙂
You hipsters ever been on a LSD trip? You know, drop some acid and and then go to the county fair? Dudes have told that it’s “nothing but a good time”
Maybe… My thoughts are taking something that makes you straight up insane for over 8 hours not so fun. Like being in a living haunted house. In fact a slang term for LSD is crazy
Then there is the idea of “not coming back” You just go off on that stuff and stay there for the rest of your life. Does it happen? Well they say it did to Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. The famous rock and roll acid casualty.
So you go to a LSD party and drop some acid… Then you gotta go to the bathroom… When you go in and the mirror is there, This is what happens.
You haven’t seen squalor and crime until you’ve seen Venezuelan squalor and crime. And don’t ever trust a drug addict. This is what Jonathan Jakubowicz’s taut Venezuelan picture communicates.
Carla, a rich man’s daughter who does volunteer work with poor children, is kidnapped by lower-class thugs coveting ransom money. Her druggie fiance is kidnapped as well, but later escapes after turning unexpectedly treacherous toward Carla. Life is strange, Carla has to admit. The only good thing going on here is that the thugs decline to rape her.
“Secuestro” could easily have been tedious; we’ve seen all this Latin American ugliness before. But tedious it isn’t because it’s a vivid thriller. Mia Maestro, who plays Carla, is magnificently comely and histrionically hard-working and affecting. One hopes to see her in many future roles.
I chose to see “SE,” available to me only on DVD, instead of such American films as “Munich” and “The New World” because of possibly false reports that these two movies are boring. What if it’s true? CRITICS have made this charge. Can it be that U.S. filmmakers are ceasing to interest us? (Yes, it can be; you’d better believe it.) As I said, “Secuestro Express” could have been tedious, but Jakubowicz prevents it from happening. That’s meritorious filmmaking.
Do you remeber going to sex education class in school? You would go and eveybody would giggle as you watched some film about reproduction probably produced sometime in the 50’s
Then you would go to recess. Out there on the playground is where the real education began. Chasing girls around the monkey bars, getting kudies ,then punching your bud’s and getting all those “warm fuzzies”
Where did all this school yard sex education come from? Big brothers and sisters? Parents? Who knows…But I just remember there was plenty of it.
I never really got any “real” sex education. And considering how important sex is to teenagers I think it’s time to be a bit more frank. Like, if you do that kid… THIS might happen… Can you dig it?
