It is with great disappointment that I am announcing the end of Unpaid Entertainer. I have greatly enjoyed writing over the past few years about the things that amuse and/or annoy me in humorous and obnoxious ways. But,for reasons that include time constraints, perception, personal branding and business, the time has come to move on and close this chapter of my life.
I didn’t even think that this was possible, but there is a site with funnier want-ad interactions than even my own personal ads I’ve been posting on Craigslist for the past couple of years.
Here are the unofficial traffic stats for the past 12 months. I say ‘unofficial’ because these number probably include some of my own admin page hits, as well as search engine robots, spiders and the like (although those are all supposedly filtered out to some degree). The information is compiled from three different traffic analysis programs: AwStats, Cystats and Mystat.
In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite posts from 2009. Happy New Year!
Tragic events like this should be viewed as humbling reminders that as much as we’d like to believe that we are guaranteed to live to 85, or 65, or even until tomorrow, we aren’t. It is sad that it takes the senseless loss of a talented young woman to reinforce the fact that we only have a finite amount of time to live, and that we should take time to be thankful for the things and people that we have, and make a point to live every day as well as you can – because you truly don’t know how many of them you actually have left.
Almost every day I see a report or hear of some sort of ridiculous rituals being performed by people purely for religious reasons. I usually blow them off as they’re typically silly, pointless mechanisms that really don’t hurt anyone other aside from maybe wasting someone’s time.
But every once and again, I become truly appalled that people – real living, breathing, thinking, loving human beings can perform such excessively malevolent acts in the name of their Deity.
This headline definitely caught my attention:
200,000 animals to be sacrificed at Nepal festival
More than 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed Tuesday and Wednesday at the temple in the jungles of Bara district, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Katmandu, to honor the Hindu goddess Gadhimai…
…The slaughtered animals are taken back by devotees to their villages and eaten during a feast. The meat is considered blessed and consuming it protects them from evil.
If you’re ever inclined to start your own website, whether it’s a blog, or a forum, or an ecommerce site, you should definitely exercise caution when selecting your domain name.
Take the website ” Pen Island”, for example. They sell promotional items that are customizable for giveaways and such. The name of their website, penisland.net, might not be the best representation of their business with respect to the type of clientele that they are looking to attract.
And just as a word of warning, I’d advise against visiting the same domain with a ‘.com’ extension – unless you’re into that sort of thing.
Charging that Craigslist remains a “one-stop shop for all your prostitution needs,” a Florida sheriff yesterday announced the arrest of 28 women who allegedly advertised sexual services on the popular online classifieds site. Dubbed “Operation Hot Date,” the undercover police action also netted several pimps who worked with the alleged hookers…
In reference to this post that I made a couple of weeks ago, I finally made it to the theater to see Tucker Max’s “I Hope The Serve Beer in Hell”. The movie was platform released three weeks ago; this was the first weekend that it was being shown at a theater in my city.
You were there with your three kids (I presume they were yours). You were wearing an ADIDAS jumpsuit with matching pants that were lime green/radioactive pink colored. You might remember me – I was the guy with the messy hair and white t-shirt and tan corduroy pants who looked like he was hungover with no job (I was) who innocently asked you if you got your outfit at Man-Alive in the Woodland Mall.
