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So much for that

May 21, 2010 – 12:53 am

blogmoneyIn my last post I wrote about my blogging “career” and how that wasn’t really what I wanted to do for a job. I wrote it and I meant it, but then I thought about it some more and I realized how stupid I sounded. Basically what I was saying was “I am good at this, but I don’t want to make money doing it because it’s not my career goal.” And I am good at it too. I’ve completely self-marketed the website and so far this month I have around 10,000 unique visitors. That’s pretty good and for me not to want to monetize that is pretty stupid, even for me. So I decided to take the jump and join a blog network.

So as of… now I guess, Miller Park Drunk is a member of the Yardbarker Network. They will handle all of my advertising, leave me alone to do my own thing and when I write something good that hits on a popular topic it could be carried on the front page of MSN or FoxSports. So, yeah, pretty sweet deal. If I want to have a hit article that’s featured on the main page of one of those sites I might have to change my ways a little bit, maybe stop making so many rape jokes, but that’s okay and I think it will be worth it in the long run. It’s always better to be funny without that stuff (so they say) so why not give it a try?

If it doesn’t work out, no big deal. If it does, let’s see what else we can do. I’ve been thinking about starting a Milwaukee Bucks blog for next season, I could do that too. Maybe a Seahawks blog as well? How about a wrestling blog? Actually, no on that one because I’d have to start watching it again to do that. (Yes, I am already over that phase.) Maybe I should take Phil Ivey Rules, start updating it again and add it to the network. Anything is possible, really. I am good at this and I should embrace it. So that’s what I am going to start doing.

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An interesting time at the ballpark

May 18, 2010 – 6:45 pm

miller_park350x200Last Sunday I worked during the day and came home. Like I often do when I get home I checked my email, checked facebook and checked out my Miller Park Drunk twitter account. I saw that one of my friends on twitter, wezen-ball a real clever baseball blog, had an extra ticket to Sunday’s Brewers game, but had no one to go with. Now, I’d never met him before, but I thought we had a decent rapport from our online interactions (and his girlfriend is one of MPD’s biggest fans) and I figured it’d be a good experience so I asked him if he wanted me to come with. Three hours later I was meeting him outside of Miller Park and we were on our way to our seats for the Milwaukee Brewers vs Philadelphia Phillies game.

I have to say that I had a really good time. He was really intelligent and I was able to talk to him about certain baseball related topics that I wouldn’t be able to talk about with most of my friends. (This isn’t meant as a dis on my friends, of course, but there are some things that only guys who are big enough nerds to blog about baseball for fun would understand.) We also did a fair share of talking about blogging and what it’s like, and what you get out of it. During the game he checked his twitter account and came to find out that one of the contributors from Yahoo’s Big League Stew (my favorite baseball blog), Answer Dave, was at the game and because of wezen-ball’s popularity he wanted to leave the press box to come and sit with us. And he did. read more »

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Goals redux

November 30, 2009 – 12:34 am

I have been convinced that having goals is an important thing and that I should probably have them. My buddy presented a pretty good case and I can admit when I am wrong. I am still against 5-year plans and making goals with a time limit, but goals are probably a good thing to have. It’s nice to complete a small goal and then have the motivation to complete another, bigger one. So I am going to try and do that. I started with cleaning every inch of my apartment and getting rid of a bunch of stuff that was cluttering me up. The place is as clean as it’s been since I moved in (and that’s after having people over), but I still have a ways to go as I still feel that it’s too cluttered and I think clutter affects my moods. Call it Vin Shui. I’ve also been trying to write down more of my writing ideas, no matter how big or small they are, so that I don’t lose them. I wish that Walking Tall was never made because I had a really cool idea for The Rock as a soldier returning to his hometown to find his town had gone to hell when he was away that was actually nothing like Walking Tall besides that. Oh well.

Anyways I won’t post all my goals here, but I’ll write about a few and then try to write something about any that I do accomplish if I think that it’s funny or good. Here’s a few for now:

  1. Send in application for Mike and I to go on Amazing Race. They aren’t currently taking any, but I am going to keep checking their website until they are.
  2. Get published on the Onion AV Club again. Barring unforeseen setbacks I should have something in there next week-ish. (See what I did there?)
  3. Meet up with a person to discuss and figure out our **SUPER SECRET BOOK IDEA**
  4. Listen to the Pretenders while updating my blog.
  5. Try to save as much money as possible between now and my birthday by not going to bars, basketball games or out to eat.

See? All reachable goals that have nothing to do with how much money I have. Which is good because I have none. I think I am figuring this goals thing out.

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