Fellow bloggers, do you want to know the secret of big-time blog success? I'm talking links from Drudge, Breitbart, Boortz ... and now CNN? It's simple:
Never set up a tip jar or Google AdSense yet proceed to blog away for 2 years.
UPDATE (1-6-08 - Back from vacation): My humble little Pavlovian buzzer also made appearances on NBC's Today Show and Sean Hannity's radio show --- and gets results.
I don't know which is worse, the audio above or these totally different snippets from the NY Daily News. You know (heh), reporters usually edit out the extraneous stuff; the Daily News gleefully does not:
"I'm really coming into this as somebody who isn't, you know, part of the system, who obviously, you know, stands for the values of, you know, the Democratic Party," Kennedy told the Daily News Saturday during a wide-ranging interview.
"I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person. And, you know, and that would be obviously true with my relationship with the mayor."
Criticized for ignoring reporters after her name surfaced as a possible Clinton replacement, Kennedy sat down with the media this weekend. Displaying her notorious shyness during the 30-minute chat, the mother of three, author and public education advocate was pleasant, but spoke softly and rarely made eye contact. Her speech was often punctuated with extra "you knows" and "ums."
Regarding her rival (and her cousin's ex) Andrew Cuomo:
"Andrew is, you know, highly qualified for this job," she said. "He's doing a, you know, a great job as attorney general, and we've spoken throughout this process."
"You know, I think, you know, we're sort of, uh, sharing some of this experience. And um, as I've said, he was a friend, a family member, and um so, and uh obviously, he's, you know, he's also had an impressive career in public office."
Wrap it up, Princess:
"It's really, you know, it's not about just the Kennedy name," she said.
Really?
Then again, I suppose Caroline's near-Tourettes could be worse. Much worse:
Why a new blog and pseudonym? A couple of reasons:
1. I'm about burned out on the daily to-and-fro of politics. While I had a tremendous amount of fun this past year and sincerely appreciate all of the inbound links and recognition from the supernovas of the rightie blogosphere, in the end, we lost --- and I'm spent for now. Yes, there will still be big issues to debate and I'm sure I'll weigh in, but for now, the exhausting daily --- and sometimes hourly --- pissing matches of Campaign '08 are done for me. Whew.
2. While my interest in seeing Obama defeated was always tied to my conservative philosophical moorings, his victory has now forced me to direct my limited blogging energy to where it counts: my freaking livelihood. You see, in real life I'm an executive at a defense contractor that works directly for the Missile Defense Agency (read more at McKittrick's About Page), and this video still haunts my professional dreams:
How'd you like to have your whole career singled out for termination by your new President? So let's just say I've found some new blogging motivation to replace my depleted passion for campaign snark. This shit's real now. Really real.
As McKittrick at Closing Velocity, my goal is to be the go-to conservative blogger for missile defense insight. As far as I know, there are no other rightie bloggers that focus exclusively on this crucial national security topic, so here's me filling a void. Please keep me in mind when the issue crosses your own blogging radar.
Perfunction well remain alive to serve as my blog for non-missile defense topics, but please realize I didn't start a second blog in order to double my workload --- I expect posting here to be markedly less frequent. But I will post (don't de-blogroll me, bro!). After all, I've got a little moron-cred that I'd hate to jettison.
As for Cuffy Meigs, he'll remain my MoronHandletm and I'll continue to see you around in the various comment threads we frequent. But in case some deep thinkers (or future employers!) actually start taking my missile defense analysis seriously, I really needed to sequester the sometimes filthy and embarrassing crap Cuffy says from the brilliantly illuminating masterpieces McKittrick will surely pen. While I suck at schizophrenia (no you I don't! yes I you do!), you'll probably see me comment as McKittrick around the moronosphere if the topic is youknowwhat.
Finally, since this feels like a semi-retirement, let me say to you, reader: THANK YOU. Perfunction is a pure vanity blog for me and not a source of income. It started as a typical personal blog with pithy pop culture observations, morphed into a political screedfest, and eventually a canvas for my self-taught Photoshop and video production skills. After 2 years and nearly half a million hits, I really appreciate you taking the time to read and watch my stuff.
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