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Donate now!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

I’ve noticed that some bloggers add “donate” buttons to their sites, which directs readers to a PayPal site where you’re invited to pour money into the blogger’s coffers. The donations, I suspect, help the blogger maintain total, single-minded commitment to posting about cooking/farming/being a cool, under-employed mom, or whatever, without having to worry about, you know, “working for the man,” “punching the clock,” or any of that other stuff that stifles a blogger’s je ne sais quoi.

It’s a sweet racket.

I’d like to add a donate button to my site. Unfortunately, I don’t know how.  So I invite you, dear reader, to consider this entire post ONE BIG DONATE button.  All monies will go toward financing:

a) a much-needed lip wax

b) Yellow Tail (aka Walmart’s sweetest nectar)

c) a new pair of Uggs

One these things are in my possession, I will be able to REALLY fully commit my creative juices to Rurally Screwed. So, when you think about it, a donation is really for YOUR benefit, not mine. I also wouldn’t mind a gift certificate to H&M and perhaps a new purse.

Blogging envy

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This story kills me. A Brooklyn-based writer named Jessie Rosen has a blog about — sit down for this — what it’s like to date when you’re in your 20s living in New York City.  It’s called — hold on — 20-Nothings.  20-Nothings was “just optioned by Mercator Pictures for scripted television development.”  What—Mercator never saw an episode of The City, starring fetching Hills alum Whitney Port?  Or for that matter, Friends?  Sex and the City? Why didn’t  they just option the July issue of Cosmo?

Don’t get me wrong—I’m not slinging invective at this writer (even though she does have my first name—I always take note of the non-Jessicas). Reading her story in The Daily Beast was highly entertaining; she’s good at her craft.

My consternation boils down to….em, jealousy, plain and simple.  How the hell does one get optioned?  What exactly does that mean?  Because—and correct me if I’m wrong—isn’t every blog about dating/relationships?  Or cooking?  Or being a cool mom?    Why did Jessie Rosen’s blog stand out from all the zillions of others devoted to the exact same subject?  Maybe it’s because her subject never grows old. Its endlessly entertaining in all of its generational permutations.

Let me just come out with it:  Why doesn’t someone option me?  I mean, come on, I blog about waxing the goat hairs on my chin.  And digging a 200-foot trench in the back yard.  And fighting puss-covered squash buds.  If that’s not the stuff of great television, I don’t know what is.

Anytime you’re ready to talk, Viacom, you know where to find me.


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