A Shout Out to an Advertiser
There is no surer path to the poorhouse than running ads on your website. Even with reasonable traffic, I might be lucky to pull in a buck sixty a month. During a good month. Ad to that the fact that a lot of visitors are using adblock with firefox or are reading, not shopping, and you have a recipe for failure. Time spent writing posts or tweaking the site would probably be better spent collecting bottles or standing on the street with a sign in my hands. So it isn’t about the Benjamins. Who knows what it is about.
In that spirit, I’m going to try something new. I have an advertiser, Absinthesupply, that I have always liked. During my normal three hour wake up routine this morning, I found an interesting article about Absinthe in the New York Times. It has a great history. Picasso drank it, as did Van Gogh (who threw a glass of it at Gauguin). I’m not going to plagiarize the article here. The point is that throughout history cool people drank it. So, if you want to be hip and avant-garde and at the same time fund my ramen noodle diet, read the article, come back and click the link. Or not. Whatever. Don’t blame me if you fail to capitalize on the chances of furthering your love life by looking cool serving Absinthe.
One more thing. I cannot drink alcohol, so if you have tried Absinthe, please leave a comment letting me know your experience. Does it live up to the hype?
