“Okay, campers. Rise and shine and don’t forget your booties cus it’s coooooooold out there.”
While watching one of my favorite movies of all time – Groundhog Day [starring my boyfriend Bill Murray], I felt a calling upon my life. If you haven’t seen the movie, I suggest you do that and then come back here to read the piece of wisdom which I have extracted from it.
If anyone’s life is like groundhog day, it’s totally mine. I do the same thing every day. Every freakin day. I roll out of bed and sit down at my computer, oftentimes, without even getting so much as a sip of water or a box of ice cream. Many times, I do not even have to get out of bed because I simply grab my laptop off my nightstand and start my day.
My blog is also in a rut. A rut of awesomeness. Just kidding. My readership is actually growing at an increasingly fast rate, which excites me, yes. Thank you to all you people who find comic relief at my expense. I’ve noticed something though. I have quite a few blog stalkers. Yes, stalkers. You people who lurke around but leave no trace of your presence.
This brings me to my next point. There are quite a few of you out there who have some good blogs and/or websites. So good, in fact, that I would like to tell the world about them. Alot of you have asked about advertising, but since I’m not going to do any advertising until I switch to a website, I am going to do one featured blog or website every Friday. What does that mean for you? More readers, more exposure, and the recommendation of a widely respected Elephant. I have the uncanny ability to persuade people that said item [insert: blog, movie, dairy product] will change their life.
How do I qualify to be the featured blog?
Well, I’m going to lay out the complete details in my next blog. But basically, I’m not gonna make it hard on you. If you want to be considered for featured blogger or website, you must leave a comment on each post that week. I will randomnly choose one from all who qualify. Obviously. I can only choose one per week, so keep trying and eventually you’ll get your turn. Leaving comments is basically like entering the contest, but if you didn’t know, leaving comments actually boosts your search engine rankings. Yes, it is true my children. The more you leave links to your blog the more clout your blog gets in google’s eyes. So be ye not lazy. [if you don’t have a webite, but have something else you would like me to promote then that is fine]
Cheers, “to world peace”, on that one.
A BOX of ice cream in chocolate chip or neopolitan is just better to me. I have no reason.
julie. “the way the sun hits the bricks in the afternoon reminds me of Rome..”
Can I promote myself? Does that mean you’d run a feature on me?
True story: One time I considered starting a blog. Actually, multiple times I considered it. But then when it came to the actual writing portion of it, I got distracted midway through the first paragraph, followed by writer’s block, followed by not really having any idea where I was going with the blog in the first place…. so it ultimately failed.
It’s a shame too, because I have so many amazing thoughts to share with the world. In fact, I’m probably doing the world an injustice by keeping everything to myself.
brandon, brandon. an injustice of mass proportions! i don’t have writers block ever because there are so many random thoughts circling my mind at any time that I cannot decide what to even write about. but as you can tell from my posts… i too have NO IDEA where this blog is going.
the stalkers and lurkers are everywhere and they never cease to amaze me. nice idea. and i like the idea of having something interesting to read on fridays, ghost-town time on the blogs. 😉
maria.. yes. ghost town for sure. there are so many blogs out there i like, and i figure during these tumultuous times… lets come together, get warm and fuzzy, and help eachother out
Leaving comments does drive up hits. So does mentioning the word “preteen” somewhere in your blog.
I cannot believe you mentioned Bill Murray without mentioning Ghostbusters. That’s just blasphemy.
enna. i cannot truly believe the amount of people who come to my blog by searching for “pictures of hives” and “hitler”. but preteen… never would have thought
yay! contest. whoo hoo!
david david… welcome. whoo hoo!
I suppose it is, but I don’t have nearly as much material to draw upon. I haven’t lived the life of someone who should be in their 40s or 50s by now, no millionaire drug addict exes, no foreign lovers, etc.
But I am slightly cynical. Maybe I could pull something from that.
brandon. i think you should do a blog just based on observational humor. you don’t need to have my life. there are plenty of other lives to make fun of
That’s a great idea.
I’m amazed at the quality of writing and artistry that goes into many of the blogs I come across. I also find blogging to be a catharctic release of creative energy, which is very intellectually and emotionally healthy regardless of readership.
Also, re: line 2, section 3, that’s what she said.
michael.. can i call you michael scott? she did. yes indeed she did.
yes, i know there are so many talented peeps out there, i gotta spread the word.
I suppose that would work. I just have to determine if I want to do it on this site or google’s Blogger. Hm. Such difficult decisions.
brandon. well here’s the thing. i’m gonna be real for a second here. i know its hard to understand that i would be honest. I had this dilemma once upon a great while as well. Here’s the thing if you are choosing between wordpress and blogger there is no contest you should go with wordpress. it’s better in just about every way. Now, the only downside is you can’t run ads unless you have an actual dot com, powered by wordpress.org. then you can use their templates and all that stuff and run ads. You can however, run ads on a free blogger blog. But they are so crappy that it doesn’t matter. just go with wordpress. then when you convert to a dot com u can still use wordpress in all its glory
No you cannot.
michael. i’ll take that as a yes. thanks.
I love that movie. It’s definitely in my top X movies. And I still cry each time I see it (don’t laugh at me).
I had no idea about the commenting increasing your google ratings. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing though! 😉 I love your elephant feature idea – good luck with it!
And thanks so much for stopping by my blog yesterday on my SITS day. I had so much fun and am still wading through wonderful comments. I hope you enjoyed yourself and that you come back to visit soon!
haha. hey michelle. thanks for stopping by. Yea, i have NO CLUE where the whole elephant thing came from, but whatever. I certainly have that entire movie memorized. yea gurl, shooot. .. the comments do help. anytime you can link to someone else’s blog it helps significantly so get linking!
Well, wordpress it is. As soon as I get the ambition to think of a blog name, I shall begin.
yes. the dastardly task of name picking. thank God i don’t have children yet.
Condescending Superiority – A slightly cynical view on life.
Thoughts?
well, people would definately hate you right off the bat, so it has that going for itself.
So are you saying it’s a bit too strong for a title/lead in? I’m trying to determine what kind of first impression to give off. Hm…
I would think the “slightly cynical view” description would more than make up for the title.
well the only word that i think is maybe a wee bit offsetting (to some) is superiority. but it will get attention and people will probably read it just because it is offensive. so you have that going for yourself.
Hm, I guess I’ll have to think about it. Stupid name choosing. This blogging thing is a lot of work.
it is the source of so much of my frustrations
Alright, I’ve narrowed it down to a few choices (currently, always open to suggestions):
The Bible According to Brandon
The Thirteenth Apostle
Condescending Cynicism (or Cynical Condescension)
Whitty Diatribes (intentional misspelling)
… I’m somewhat partial to the last one. Opinions?
i like condescending, but the cynicism is a bit redundant…maybe a different word after it. I like whitty diatribes. although, not half the people who went there would know what that was
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