Tuesday, July 27, 2004
(7:02 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Pledge Week!
Guys, my bandwidth costs are skyrocketting, primarily due to the ass-capper tattoo thing, but also due to the absolute flood of readers. I only expect this to get worse as the site continues to increase in quality -- thank God that the blow this time was cushioned by the death of most of my supporting staff! If the site was updated more often, then I would expect our hits to increase from 200 a day (only fifty of which are from me) to roughly 10,000. You can imagine the problems that would cause in my relationship with my ISP and my Discover Card.In short, I need your money. I need a lot of it. If I don't raise $80,000 this week, then I won't be able to blog the Republican convention. Worse, I may need to shut down the blog altogether, cutting you off from a valuable supply of information about my personal life and about... um... other stuff, too.
Okay, let's be frank: if you read this blog without pledging money, you're basically stealing from me. I put in all this damn effort to write posts and to bring you the hottest young talent -- from Anthony Smith to Monica Bennett to Robb Schunemann to, well, everyone else, even though they don't really post much -- and to keep my blogroll updated and alphabetized, and what do I get for it? Jack-shit, basically. If I'm honest. Sure, some would argue that a "community" of some form has formed around this blog, but I don't know how a genuine community can sustain itself unless its leaders obtain material wealth for their efforts. And although it's true that I take orders from the Socialist Workers Party, I am at very least a figurehead and deserve renumeration. I mean, look at the fucking URL: adamkotsko.com/weblog. I'm a community leader, so I should be richer than I am. That's where you come in. Basically.
Man, I deserve so much better than what I'm getting. So much better. I've been patient. I've put in my time. I've been doing this for a year, almost every day, sometimes more than once a day. It's exhausting! It hurts! My fingers bleed almost every night, and half the time I cry myself to sleep thinking of your scathing, self-important attempts to leech off my effort and fame in order to get your clever remark published -- by which I mean your comments. So give me money! Or buy me a book or something! Because it's Pledge Week! Or, better, Giving Your Damn Money To Adam Kotsko Week!
I can already tell you're not going to donate anything. Damn it.
UPDATE:
Those who want to donate can use the PayPal link in the "Unapologetic Tackiness" box.
