If you look close, you'll see my ad on my own page!

My Cancer Treatment Information site actually makes money from advertising. Then again, it was built in 1996 and online ever since with huge traffic and links to it from all over the world. For new sites, like the one above, there is no traffic so it is impossible to earn ad income. In the month of June, I was able to drive traffic to the site with the following results: 35 Clicks, 656 Page impressions and an Estimated earnings of $24.91 (sweet!) What this doesn’t account for is the $173.25 I paid to bring that traffic. I bought ads so I could sell climbing walls. I got one email and no clients, then stopped the campaign after losing money. July’s stats? 10 pages and 0 clicks = $0 earnings.

This is some pretty serious business...

My life has been pretty serious as of late. The whole parenthood and head of household thing has taken on a new flavor as I come into my own. Still, the person I was is who I am and some stuff remains a family value to be passed to my kids. A big one is the D.I.Y. (do it yourself) ethic and aesthetic. It’s sooo punk! Thus, we packed it uptown to see The Runaways, the year’s best movie by far. (Avatar? Feh!) There was some big league teenstar power pulling us in. Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie was more than perfect. Same with Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett. Jailbait! Stella Maeve (Emma Boardman on Gossip Girl!) was cute as Sandy West, but the show-stealer was Michael Shannon (Cecil B. DeMented!) as Kim Fowley. That’s who I want to be when I grow up! Therein lies the contradiction…

Sam Dodsworth is my hero

The kids are up at their cousins, so I took a break from painting the house to watch a great movie based on the book (which was also great) by Sinclair Lewis. It revealed everything that is heroic about being a man as we see Sam Dodsworth, a retired automotive magnate from Zenith, Winnemac, struggle with his worth as a man of leisure. His silly young wife, on the other hand… Anyway, he rose to his circumstances and took life by the bollocks and so on. I had never seen Walter Huston (30 years before my time) in a show before. Wanna see something amazing? Check out the iMDB page for Mary Astor.  149 entries = wow. Her role as the european enchantress was pure romance.