First and foremost, if anyone blames anything I write in this post on the poor economy, I will scream. I’m sick of people using the economy as an excuse for today’s problems. I’m sick of the media influencing everyone around me. I hate how everyone on the internet and world are so gullible. I think Huxley was right, we don’t need to worry about the government watching us, they already own us, or else we wouldn’t be whining about a weak economy or President Bush. So with this said, here I go into a rant:
Stumbleupon took it upon itself to suspend my account. They didn’t give me a reason, they just said it was time to close down the account. I fought it of course, and I will most likely lose somehow. I’m not sure why, but I have a few clues. I stopped liking Stumbleupon a while ago. It would constantly send me to redundant sites. I mean how many sites can I see about how Obama is so cool and how he’s going to change the world, as if he were the Antichrist the Bible warned us about. It’s so easy to pick on political idiots. IF BEING PRESIDENT IS SO DAMN EASY WHY DON’T YOU GO TO WASHINGTON AND BE PRESIDENT AND SHUT THE HELL UP! Back to stumbleupon, the whole thing has been severely diluted and is no longer relevant to me. However, I can’t seem to delete their tags from firefox without doing some heavy lifting.
Blogrush is closing down. Remember them? They banned me too, and they said my blog wasn’t “good” enough for their services, well who’s laughing now? They’re folding under the weight of a crappy service and I’m still writing up a storm, to an audience of 2 or 3, and sometimes no one, as detailed in my lower number of unique and overall hits.
I was riding high last year with all these paid posts and even created ten or so blogs where I was writing like a madman trying to earn a second income in light of my failing career as a web developer and then the rug was taken out from under me and Page Rank sites were king. Now look! I make 0 a month. So then I shifted focus, I started using affiliate programs like Amazon and tried my luck at that, not the greatest of results as it is hard to get people to buy from you when no one is reading or clicking, or visiting. That’s fine.
After all this trouble I had to go back to the drawing board and start writing from the heart. I’ve created a total of 7 standing websites with information on them that varies. 1 of which is now at the might page rank 4/10 and going strong. I write at least 2 to 3 pages (word documents) worth of information about any given topic and really give it my best shot, and while I have that big page rank muscle I have no hits. It’s nice to have this thing that people say generates money, but then have nothing to show for it. Then I have to remember that I didn’t start writing huge posts because I wanted money, I started writing huge posts because I liked writing huge posts. (These posts that I speak of are about horror movies and why each one is relevant to todays youth)
So now what? Adsense has never been all that great, even though I have sites that are generating 500 unique hits a day. It’s just the subject matter doesn’t lend itself well to getting people to click ad generating links or buying relevant media or books. So what do I do next? Wait for a government bail out? Wait for Obama to “redistribute the wealth” like a communist, or wait for him to save me from this financial mess I’m in? NO! I got up some start up capital and threw some stuff on ebay, and BOOOOM! No one wants to buy anything right now because the MEDIA keeps feeding fear to our gullible idiots in America! Don’t believe me? Just type in bad economy in google alongside this “blogspot” and see how many idiots are talking about how the economy is bad and they blame Bush. It’s funny that neither candidate, even after the bailout, didn’t change their economic policy on their websites or in their speeches. So both candidates are failures in my eyes, but that’s not the only thing that really sparks my disdain for American political idiocy. It’s the old timers talking about how they don’t trust the government, wearing their hip and cool “Obey” branded Obama shirts and talking trash about how if the Republicans take over the Whitehouse they are going to be so worried about life and limb. It’s too bad that the democrats like “Big Government” policies and more handouts. Oh don’t worry, I’ve got an equal amount of punishment for the Republicans, but if I go another day with hearing or seeing pro Obama bullcrap I’m going to punch someone out. Someone get this fight even! I digress, even before television, the forefathers of this Nation were having cronies pass out pamphlets to sway belief. Remember one called “Common Sense”, it shaped the nation at one time. So propaganda is not a new thing.
So what now? This site and my other sites are at all time lows. My stumbleupon account is gone, blogrush is dying a slow and painful death and good riddance, and what do I have left? Oh right, you entrecard droppers who hit my site and jump right out to drop more cards. Man, if I took the ec widget off of here I’d be back to my high school era blogs where no one would read them and I’d be ranting and raving to an audience of 1, just like I was back then. I mean, I already do that with a personal blog I keep locked up under the guise a sales man, but come on, this is ridiculous. Aren’t I a master of my craft? I’ve got a piece of paper that says I’m a college grad and I have the skills to light this site on fire…right? Not when my most popular post of the last three years has been “The Dark Knight Sucks”. I guess it’s just what happens.
Why so serious? (I couldn’t resist) I’m not sure. This site has always been a teeter totter of ideology. One minute serious thought, revelations, work lamentations, and crisis. The other a carefree piece of review magic with myself being the guinea pig watching the best and worst dvd movies that come through the netflix que. Maybe I’m just vain. Maybe I just want to be as big as some other sites out there that are making money and get their blogger to stay at home and work. Now that’s a dream. I wish I could sit at home and write all day, not that I’m good, but I can be as prolific as the next guy and then some, I just can’t seem to generate any money at this.
If you didn’t see the video or can’t understand what Murs is saying in that video, he’s basically saying that he’s “Hustlin” and has been “Hustlin” for a long time, without doing anything illegal. He’s talking about selling soda at the track, selling incense, and trying anything to stay out of jail and in gangs. Trying to recycle cans and do whatever he can to get his dream of music going. That’s like me! I tell myself that because I am always trying to flip things, cheap dirt hustles, trying to make something out of this boring life that I call mine. I mean come on, who else is awake at 4 am and walking miles to work sometimes in cold sometimes in the rain, and sometimes writing diatribes trying to gain sympathetic glances? I guess I’m just part of a bored generation, the tale end of generation x, with bad knees and back intentions. I think it’s all due to my skateboarding days, I took some sick falls and no cameras were there, and I didn’t get a television deal with my best friend Big or anything like that. Maybe it was due in large part to the fact that I was never that good. I guess launching myself down stairs and grinding benches 5-0 style on a decline was never worth mentioning. Those that saw me skate always called my style dirty, and lame, I was never a rail thin kid so you can see why it’s funny to see a heavier kid flying through the air with his skateboard about to hit him in the back of the head. (I kid, I had a point in skateboarding when I was actually halfway decent and on my way to learning vert, but I messed up my knee playing varsity football…or at least at the practice…nevermind)
I know, this makes me look like a chump or a whining idiot. However, I beg you to sit in a cubicle or sit at a counter with no customers for 8 hours. This video store world really is an annoying job. I don’t have Dante or Randal around to help me cope, I have to deal with silence and television screens and old dos prompt computers. Trust me, it’s not that fun to sit and watch random crap for the sake of a minimum wage payout. It’s really just a badge of stupidity as I feel like I’m the one running the Android’s Dungeon and not comic book guy, the under appreciated scholar of movie trivia and pop culture as if relevance was going to get me through the door of some bigger paying job placement, or get me out of the ghetto that I call my mind. Trust me, it’s not that easy to come up with all these complaints and relational data, or what some might call whining posts.
Now I feel better. Yeah. My site has hit an all time low in traffic, roughly from 400 hits a day to 12 hits and on the weekends 4 hits a day. I guess I’m just not as good as I thought I was. It’s ok. If you recall my early posts on this site, I didn’t write it to be a pro-blogger or to be famous, I wrote it because I had a lot of time on my hands and I don’t know…thought I was like Kevin Smith or something. I’m less ambitious now and at times feel like a stupid consumer…just another Mexican…I better get back to washing dishes, the boss is coming.
Oh and I’m not looking for sympathy, just had an hour to kill while waiting for 7 AM to roll around so I can start my 3 mile hike to work.
Blogging in Shambles
First and foremost, if anyone blames anything I write in this post on the poor economy, I will scream. I’m sick of people using the economy as an excuse for today’s problems. I’m sick of the media influencing everyone around me. I hate how everyone on the internet and world are so gullible. I think Huxley was right, we don’t need to worry about the government watching us, they already own us, or else we wouldn’t be whining about a weak economy or President Bush. So with this said, here I go into a rant:
Stumbleupon took it upon itself to suspend my account. They didn’t give me a reason, they just said it was time to close down the account. I fought it of course, and I will most likely lose somehow. I’m not sure why, but I have a few clues. I stopped liking Stumbleupon a while ago. It would constantly send me to redundant sites. I mean how many sites can I see about how Obama is so cool and how he’s going to change the world, as if he were the Antichrist the Bible warned us about. It’s so easy to pick on political idiots. IF BEING PRESIDENT IS SO DAMN EASY WHY DON’T YOU GO TO WASHINGTON AND BE PRESIDENT AND SHUT THE HELL UP! Back to stumbleupon, the whole thing has been severely diluted and is no longer relevant to me. However, I can’t seem to delete their tags from firefox without doing some heavy lifting.
Blogrush is closing down. Remember them? They banned me too, and they said my blog wasn’t “good” enough for their services, well who’s laughing now? They’re folding under the weight of a crappy service and I’m still writing up a storm, to an audience of 2 or 3, and sometimes no one, as detailed in my lower number of unique and overall hits.
I was riding high last year with all these paid posts and even created ten or so blogs where I was writing like a madman trying to earn a second income in light of my failing career as a web developer and then the rug was taken out from under me and Page Rank sites were king. Now look! I make 0 a month. So then I shifted focus, I started using affiliate programs like Amazon and tried my luck at that, not the greatest of results as it is hard to get people to buy from you when no one is reading or clicking, or visiting. That’s fine.
After all this trouble I had to go back to the drawing board and start writing from the heart. I’ve created a total of 7 standing websites with information on them that varies. 1 of which is now at the might page rank 4/10 and going strong. I write at least 2 to 3 pages (word documents) worth of information about any given topic and really give it my best shot, and while I have that big page rank muscle I have no hits. It’s nice to have this thing that people say generates money, but then have nothing to show for it. Then I have to remember that I didn’t start writing huge posts because I wanted money, I started writing huge posts because I liked writing huge posts. (These posts that I speak of are about horror movies and why each one is relevant to todays youth)
So now what? Adsense has never been all that great, even though I have sites that are generating 500 unique hits a day. It’s just the subject matter doesn’t lend itself well to getting people to click ad generating links or buying relevant media or books. So what do I do next? Wait for a government bail out? Wait for Obama to “redistribute the wealth” like a communist, or wait for him to save me from this financial mess I’m in? NO! I got up some start up capital and threw some stuff on ebay, and BOOOOM! No one wants to buy anything right now because the MEDIA keeps feeding fear to our gullible idiots in America! Don’t believe me? Just type in bad economy in google alongside this “blogspot” and see how many idiots are talking about how the economy is bad and they blame Bush. It’s funny that neither candidate, even after the bailout, didn’t change their economic policy on their websites or in their speeches. So both candidates are failures in my eyes, but that’s not the only thing that really sparks my disdain for American political idiocy. It’s the old timers talking about how they don’t trust the government, wearing their hip and cool “Obey” branded Obama shirts and talking trash about how if the Republicans take over the Whitehouse they are going to be so worried about life and limb. It’s too bad that the democrats like “Big Government” policies and more handouts. Oh don’t worry, I’ve got an equal amount of punishment for the Republicans, but if I go another day with hearing or seeing pro Obama bullcrap I’m going to punch someone out. Someone get this fight even! I digress, even before television, the forefathers of this Nation were having cronies pass out pamphlets to sway belief. Remember one called “Common Sense”, it shaped the nation at one time. So propaganda is not a new thing.
So what now? This site and my other sites are at all time lows. My stumbleupon account is gone, blogrush is dying a slow and painful death and good riddance, and what do I have left? Oh right, you entrecard droppers who hit my site and jump right out to drop more cards. Man, if I took the ec widget off of here I’d be back to my high school era blogs where no one would read them and I’d be ranting and raving to an audience of 1, just like I was back then. I mean, I already do that with a personal blog I keep locked up under the guise a sales man, but come on, this is ridiculous. Aren’t I a master of my craft? I’ve got a piece of paper that says I’m a college grad and I have the skills to light this site on fire…right? Not when my most popular post of the last three years has been “The Dark Knight Sucks”. I guess it’s just what happens.
Why so serious? (I couldn’t resist) I’m not sure. This site has always been a teeter totter of ideology. One minute serious thought, revelations, work lamentations, and crisis. The other a carefree piece of review magic with myself being the guinea pig watching the best and worst dvd movies that come through the netflix que. Maybe I’m just vain. Maybe I just want to be as big as some other sites out there that are making money and get their blogger to stay at home and work. Now that’s a dream. I wish I could sit at home and write all day, not that I’m good, but I can be as prolific as the next guy and then some, I just can’t seem to generate any money at this.
Is this the end?
No. It’s not the end, but it does mean that I’m not going to be relying on this hobby of mine for any cash anytime soon. So I’m doing what MURS once wrote about in his epic song “Hustle“, and to break up the monotone check out this song featuring Murs & John Cena called “Hustle” with production from 9th Wonder!
If you didn’t see the video or can’t understand what Murs is saying in that video, he’s basically saying that he’s “Hustlin” and has been “Hustlin” for a long time, without doing anything illegal. He’s talking about selling soda at the track, selling incense, and trying anything to stay out of jail and in gangs. Trying to recycle cans and do whatever he can to get his dream of music going. That’s like me! I tell myself that because I am always trying to flip things, cheap dirt hustles, trying to make something out of this boring life that I call mine. I mean come on, who else is awake at 4 am and walking miles to work sometimes in cold sometimes in the rain, and sometimes writing diatribes trying to gain sympathetic glances? I guess I’m just part of a bored generation, the tale end of generation x, with bad knees and back intentions. I think it’s all due to my skateboarding days, I took some sick falls and no cameras were there, and I didn’t get a television deal with my best friend Big or anything like that. Maybe it was due in large part to the fact that I was never that good. I guess launching myself down stairs and grinding benches 5-0 style on a decline was never worth mentioning. Those that saw me skate always called my style dirty, and lame, I was never a rail thin kid so you can see why it’s funny to see a heavier kid flying through the air with his skateboard about to hit him in the back of the head. (I kid, I had a point in skateboarding when I was actually halfway decent and on my way to learning vert, but I messed up my knee playing varsity football…or at least at the practice…nevermind)
I know, this makes me look like a chump or a whining idiot. However, I beg you to sit in a cubicle or sit at a counter with no customers for 8 hours. This video store world really is an annoying job. I don’t have Dante or Randal around to help me cope, I have to deal with silence and television screens and old dos prompt computers. Trust me, it’s not that fun to sit and watch random crap for the sake of a minimum wage payout. It’s really just a badge of stupidity as I feel like I’m the one running the Android’s Dungeon and not comic book guy, the under appreciated scholar of movie trivia and pop culture as if relevance was going to get me through the door of some bigger paying job placement, or get me out of the ghetto that I call my mind. Trust me, it’s not that easy to come up with all these complaints and relational data, or what some might call whining posts.
Now I feel better. Yeah. My site has hit an all time low in traffic, roughly from 400 hits a day to 12 hits and on the weekends 4 hits a day. I guess I’m just not as good as I thought I was. It’s ok. If you recall my early posts on this site, I didn’t write it to be a pro-blogger or to be famous, I wrote it because I had a lot of time on my hands and I don’t know…thought I was like Kevin Smith or something. I’m less ambitious now and at times feel like a stupid consumer…just another Mexican…I better get back to washing dishes, the boss is coming.
Oh and I’m not looking for sympathy, just had an hour to kill while waiting for 7 AM to roll around so I can start my 3 mile hike to work.
I leave with The Time….