http://dooce.com/about
I know I've mentioned her before. But I'm still cracking up. Basic story--girl goes to BYU. Girl hates BYU. Girl sleeps around. Somewhere in that goes apostate. Starts blog. Fired because of blog. Blog becomes popular. She retires from "real" work with ad support from blog. Husband also retires and supported by her blog.
The part I didn't know: she is married to a former editor of Student Review. Jon Armstrong. Don't know the guy. But I did come across Dooce's description of meeting this Armstrong (when he was married to someone else). The part where she thinks this dude is cool and sexy cracked me up.
But here's the kicker. Am I (or you) interesting enough to support myself (yourself) financially through a blog? And if the answer is "yes", would you do it?
I don't know if I am interesting enough. I doubt it. But even if I was, it wouldn't work out well for me, I'm afraid. I need the kind of freedom where I can give my audience the middle-finger. And that wouldn't be good for finances.
Someone from CUF told me that in "one day" CUF had become more financially setup than CG. No $%*&, really? I had no freaking idea I was throwing money away!
Making your living writing drivel on the internet, no matter how witty, badass, jaded, intelligent strikes me as a complete waste. Frankly, 99% of CG is complete garbage. I know that. Everyone knows that.
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Back to the Student Review. Here's the thing that really gets me. Not only did the morons kill it, they are not ashamed that they did so, because in their stupidity they think it was due to forces out of their control.
Garbage in, garbage out, my friends. I don't know much about Dooce.com, but I'm guessing it's 99.9% garbage. Which makes CG 10x better, at 99% garbage.
My friends, the universe is giving you a message. It's everywhere you look. Embrace it.
