15th June, 2006
Good Tenants
Thursday, 7:20 am in Bloglife
I always thought I was way too fussy, now I know it’s true.
So I’m into the third rotation of trying to find a decent renter at BlogExplosion. Remember just a few weeks ago when I really, really loved this idea? The idea of featuring a new site every week, expanding networks, giving hits to the needy, all that internet-charitble crap. Three weeks and I’ve run into a problem; I don’t know who the fuck to rent out to. I don’t charge nearly enough to pull up whoever it is who’s the first sucker to bid; 20 credits (I lowered it from last time, seeing as how I was a bad hostess last week) for 20 to 50 clickthroughs is prettyfuckin’ cheap by RaB standards. Which means I’m left trying to select someone based on, yanno, little things like whether I like their blogs or not.
Most often it’s not. It’ll be something insignificant, something petty. I’ll be sitting there, reading entries and really diggin’ the writing and then bam suddenly I find out I’m dealing with a Republican, or a Big Brother fan, or (shudder) a soccer mom* in an SUV whose handbag is 70% taken up by some small dog. And there the blogs I actually read, not even mentioning the ones I skip over because the have uninspired layouts or pictures of naked chicks or are trying to sell me some shit I don’t care about.
Previously there’s always been someone who’s jumped out at me as being the wow-blog; as just having that certain something. Someone new, someone I haven’t seen before, someone with an awesome layout or good writing. It’s the ‘haven’t seen before’ bit that’s killing me this week; oh I’m so conflicted.
There’s still some time. Hell, if I really can’t decide maybe I’ll just re-list for some exhorbitant amount and take pot-luck.
Free plugs for the current bidders:
- chelle-belle.com
- modernprincess.com
- Scooter McGavin's 9th Green
- Haunted House Dressing
- Bloggin' Bizatch
- Va Va Voom
- The Fifth Column
- The Pink Diary
- the power of denial
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* With all the current World Cup fever, I was thinking about this the other day. Americans, maybe you can help me; why do you have soccer moms when, well, you’re probably about the last country in the world I’d associate with soccer. I mean, it’s so fucking European. The French play soccer… or maybe that’s the point?
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Comments
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apparently the US soccer team is 5th ranked in the world or something. According to Stillgar anyway
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Does it count as ‘your’ team if you’ve bought all the players off poor third world South American countries?
It’s probably part of NAFTA or something.
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I’m not sure, we have an arrangment with macedonia I beleive
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tnin4u
I think i should be somewhat offended by that comment but I’ll let it slide this once. Most of our players come from our pro teams (save a few from germany and england) and I’m sure we got most of them from around the world but their ours now.