Problogger – Method’s of Being a Professional Blogger – and make money?

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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:

  • Write fresh and interesting content
  • Use Google (and other) Ad’s
  • Network on Facebook, Twitter etc..
  • Decorate your posts with pictures, video etc
  • 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.

Celebrity’s – Beautiful People

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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 🙂

LSD Acid Trip – Never come back?

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.

Now, don’t that look like fun?

DVD Review Secuestro Express

Watch the DVD Secuestro Express… A review

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.Secuestro Express

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.

Sex Education in School-Recess

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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?

Opinion: True Romance A Movie Review

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I rented True Romance last weekend.  It has been years since I seen it… It was written by Taranteno and you know I was completely entertained as I usually am by the  films he is involved in.

The movie has an all star cast with many cameo’s. When some of these big names step in for little rolls like this it is often a good sign. These great actors just want to be part of a interesting project.

It includes all the good things:

  • Love
  • Drugs
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Roller Coasters
  • Pimps
  • Corrupt cops
  • Snitches

Now don’t you want to see what happens?

If you have never seen this movie… Your missing out… Check it…  And I wanted to post about a movie because I noticed there was only one post about movies in the archive for this site…And I have been once again trying to build up this site…Just for the fun of it.

Is there a private club at Disneyland?

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Disneyland. The place where dreams come true.  But what if ya want drink? Mom and dad may want to tie one on after all… Relieve a little stress of Mickey and the crew… You dig?

It’s been suggested that there is a “private club” inside Disneyland where that is actually happening.. My understanding is you have to be a “member” to get a drink in there…What gives?

If I were a drinking man and was having a hot day waiting in long lines I might want to stop off somewhere and down a few pints of Guinness to “take the edge” away from a potentially stressful day.

Hey now… It’s a small world after all…Right?

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Science – Proof of a missing day in the Bible?

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Does science have proof of a missing day as stated in the bible? This guy was telling me recently that NASA is in the process of finding a “missing day” in time that would prove and correspond with the bible as it is written:

Joshua 10
13 So the sun stood still,
and the moon stopped,
till the nation avenged itself on [a] its enemies,
as it is written in the Book of Jashar.
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. 14 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man. Surely the LORD was fighting for Israel!

So what do ya think?

I have never heard this speculation before… It would be pretty groovy if that kind of proof were substantiated… Don’t ya think? Hey there are plenty of mysteries out there. And everybody loves a good mystery. The creator of the universe can stop a day in time can’t he?

KISS – Knights in Satan’s Service?

Remember that groovy band Kiss… “Knights in Satan Service” Haha…I was a big fan when I was a kid. They were the first “shock rock” band I remember…They did songs about the good things in life… Sex!

They painted their faces and wore these cool costumes… They jumped around on stage and had fire and platforms and shiny drums. The bass player spit up blood and blew fire… It has been said they were the “hardest working band of all time”.

There band consisted of:

Cat
Star child
Vampire
Space Man

So where they the Kings in Satan Service? Or was this just a clever marketing publicity stunt?  Perhaps the movement to label all rock music as “the devils” music came up with this and when Kiss heard it they simply didn’t deny it thinking it would sell a few more records.

Oh sure their songs about rock and roll lifestyle sex and God’s of Thunder was a bit over the top in the 70’s… Not even close to what these guys are singing about now…  Come on now… Ever heard of the band Slayer?

Hey..Kiss is still rocking around out there.. Can you dig it?

Coke or Pepsi – Which is better?

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Do you remember the Pepsi challenge? You would pull up to a grocery store and they would have this stand up there… You step up to the little booth and they give you 2 tiny cups of soda and you tell them which one you think tastes the best.

I chose coke… I had to think about it for a minute tho.. My mom had always told me that “Pepsi tastes’ like Coke with dirt in it”.  Well, when I took the actual “test” I couldn’t tell…And honestly, in that setting, thought that Pepsi MAY taste just a little bit better…

Uh… Nope.

I’m a Coke guy for life hipsters…That’s just the way it is… Now that i’m older and slower and bigger and all I have decided to switch to the diet variety.

Coke RULES!